Arctic tundra pop-up page.

A new pop-up book by Miyoko Chu, director of communications at Cornell's Lab of Ornithology, celebrates diverse bird sounds in contrasting landscapes through art (illustrations by Julia Hargreaves) and audio.

"Birdscapes: A Pop-Up Celebration of Bird Songs in Stereo Sound" delivers an immersion birding experience never before seen -- or heard -- in any book.

Opening the book triggers 45 seconds of rare stereo bird songs and calls of recordings recently acquired on expeditions by the lab's Macaulay Library.

The book's seven elaborately engineered, full-color pop-ups depict dozens of bird species in North American habitats, such as grasslands, the Sonoran desert, an eastern deciduous forest, a pacific seabird colony, the arctic tundra and a cypress swamp.

Chu, author of "Songbird Journeys: Four Seasons in the Lives of Migratory Birds," includes text about various birds' fragile ecosystems. "We included the sounds of nocturnal Fork-tailed and Leach's storm-petrels recorded on Saint Lazaria Island near Sitka, Alaska, just last year. Our recordists lay in sleeping bags with microphones as the air and ground pulsated with the sounds of storm-petrels flying overhead and courting in the burrows below," Chu told Amazon.com.

"It was exciting to go from the ideas and bird lists for each soundscape to seeing and hearing this three-dimensional product as it emerged from the minds of the artists, editors and sound engineers," Chu said. "It was incredible to see the artists' sketches transform into complex and ingenious pop-up scenes, and to experience how precise recordings for each bird were blended to evoke the soundscape."

O magazine, published by Oprah Winfrey, called the book "a chirping, twittering, cawing, trilling love of a pop-up book."

The 18-page book retails for $60 and comes with batteries and an off switch. Through Dec. 23 the Cornell Store is offering a 20 percent discount on the book.