Mobile apps for New World warblers and sparrows.
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When I started birding, I carried a pencil and small notebook into the field to record sightings and make notes. It was a great way to learn, but a little cumbersome. A few years later, I met a birder who dictated sightings into a cassette-based voice recorder. How cool was that! Well, not the cassette […]
An app for entering bird lists on the iPhone.
Back in June, the Sibley eGuide app was given a major update. According to the release notes, the new version (1.5.1) includes the following: Larger images Replaced Next/Previous buttons with a swipe gesture Added one-tap enlargement of images and text Added the ability to rotate the device to landscape mode for larger images, bigger text […]
North America’s best field guide comes to the iPhone.
North America’s most popular field guide is now available as an app on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Here is an initial review, focusing on the meat of the app – the species accounts. A full review will follow. The app is a fairly straightforward and faithful port of the Sibley print guides, both the […]
Birders with an iPhone or iPod Touch need to check out this digital field guide.
Digital cameras, digital photo frames, eBook readers, it seems like the whole world is going digital these days. And now digital field guides are here. You can think of these as traditional field guides on steroids, yet even smaller. You still get the regular stuff found in field guides: illustrations, range maps, basic identification and […]
