The Warbler Guide APP coming soon

Princeton University Press just announced an app based on The Warbler Guide will be available for iOS devices in December. Among the list of features, one in particular caught my eye:

• 3D models of birds in all plumages, rotatable and pinch-zoomable to match field experience of a bird

That could be AWESOME! That’s one way that apps could really improve upon printed field guides.

Here are the other features:

• Intuitive, visual, and interactive finders with filters for possible species based on audio and visual criteria chosen by the user
• Rapid and confident two-step ID process using visual finders and comparison species
• The first complete treatment of warbler songs, using a new objective vocabulary
• An intuitive visual finder that includes side, 45 degree, and undertail views
• Many additional photos to show behavior and reinforce key ID points
• Color Impression Icons for narrowing down ID of warblers from the briefest glimpses
• Playback of all songs and vocalizations with sonograms makes study of vocalizations easy and intuitive
• iPhone® and iPad® versions let you take these useful tools into the field
• Selectable finder sortings grouped by color, alphabetical order, song type, and taxonomic order
• Interactive song finder using objective vocabulary for fast ID of unknown songs
• Comparison species with selectable side, 45 degree, and undertail views

Posted by Grant McCreary on September 13th, 2014.