[Tweeters] Hearing aids for birding

[Diane Yorgason-Quinn via Tweeters]

The best thing you can do is take in your copy of Nathan Pieplow's Peterson Field Guide to Bird sounds of Western North America.  Have some book marks in there for the birds you would love to hear again and present them to the audiologist.  They understand the spectrograms and can do whatever adjustments possible.  Of course, if you are actually deaf in that range, that can't be ameliorated.

Diane Yorgason-Quinn
Wauna, WA
Avosetta at hotmail.com

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Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Hearing aids for birding

Jim - I'm about to buy my 4th pair of hearing aids - had hearing aids for 15 years.  you first need to visit an audiologist and get tested to see where your hearing loss is, then work with audiologist on which hearing seems best fit for you - audiologists sell more than one hearing aid.  depending on your test results you may be okay with over the counter aids or you may need prescription aids.
never used Costco, but hear good things from friends

Chris Kessler

On Sat, Aug 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM Me via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu<mailto:tweeters at u.washington.edu>> wrote:
Hi Jim,

I am using an Oticon Intent 2. I am working with my audiologist to fine tune the program she added for birding which makes the sounds sharper. I can hear more birds but still losing out on higher pitch calls such as evening grosbeak and cedar waxwing. Not perfect but much better than before.

Mike in Kent
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Jim wrote:

>

> Hi,

>

> ? I'm interested in knowing what others experience is with hearing aids

> and the use of them for birding.? Please include brand names for the aids

> you have used/are using.? Also please share how well/not so well they

> are for the purposes of birding.? Thanks!

> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? - Jim in Skagit


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