iBird Explorer PRO
By Mitch Waite Group
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Description
iBIRD PRO $2.99 SALE - iBird, the first digital field guide app, is celebrating its 3 year anniversary with a huge sale. Normally $29.99 iBird Pro is on sale for a limited time for $2.99.
IBIRD 5.1--the world's best-selling birding app--just got WAY better! This latest version of iBird is now compatible with the new iOS 5 and comes with a host of exciting new features which take it even further beyond all current birding apps. I'd like to tell you about just a few of the things we did to improve iBird.
■ INCLUDES 924 SPECIES FROM NORTH AMERICA AND HAWAII
■ 36 SEARCH ATTRIBUTES
■ Over 5 hours of audio bird songs and calls from the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
■ CLOUD - Share Notes, Favorites, and Favorite Lists in the Apple "cloud" and never worry about backing up. Syncs favorites and notes to all devices automatically.
■ NEW LANDSCAPE MODE PHOTOS - Rotate your phone or iPad and the landscape photo fills the entire screen. New photo viewer works like the Apple Gallery, swipe to move between photos, as well as zoom and pinch.
■ GORGEOUS PAIRED ILLUSTRATIONS - We are beginning to combine male, female and the flight drawings into one gorgeous illustration.
■ PHOTO CENTER - The Photo Center is a gallery for storing, editing and assigning your photos to specific species pages and it lets you share them on Facebook, Twitter, or email them to friends.
■ HUB - The Hub is a centralized web site that pops up to provide you with the latest news, tips and tricks, and recent events in birding.
■ IBIRD BLOG - Mitch Waite, publisher of iBird, writes the stories in the iBird Blog, covering topics relevant to nature and apps: ibirdblog.wordpress.com
■ UNIVERSAL APP - iBird is now a universal app meaning it works beautifully on the iPad tablet, filling the entire screen.
■ CONTENT - Photos and Illustrations all in true HD 720p resolution.
■ MULTIPLE BROWSE VIEWS - You can now view species in one of four browse views: Compact, Icon, Thumbnail, and Gallery.
■ SPECTROGRAM - We developed a special player control to bring a deeper insight to the inner structure of bird songs by allowing you to view the sounds frequency domain.
■ SLIDESHOW - Displays our photos or illustrations randomly while playing their song or call in the background.
AWARDS and ACCOLADES for iBird:
■ WINNER: 2011 BEST APP EVER AWARD FROM 148APPS.COM
■ MACWORLD'S "BEST REFERENCE APP 2009: 4 ½ out of 5 mice."
■ O'REILLY "BEST IPHONE BIRDWATCHING APP 2009"
■ BUYER'S GUIDE TO BIRD APPS - THE TRUTH ABOUT IPHONE BIRDING APPS. FREE AT http://bit.ly/compareapps
Standard Features:
■ Parameter driven search lets you identify birds quickly, so you spend more time observing and less time reading.
■ Search by Shape, Size, Habitat, Color, Family, Song, Length, Weight, Flight Pattern, Wingspan, and much more.
■ Taxonomic and Alphabetical Family sort options on Browse screen.
■ Hand-drawn full sized color illustrations, with perching and flight views.
■ Multiple professional photographs for each species showing sexes and seasons.
■ Multiple professionally recorded bird calls and songs for almost every species.
■ Shake your device while on a species page to automatically select a new species and play a random bird song.
■ Extensive identification, behavior, and habitat information.
■ Full color range maps.
■ Bookmark birds as Favorites for fast access.
■ Use Favorites lists as life list, yard list, travel lists, etc.
■ Sync Favorites lists and Notes to your desktop for backup and editing.
■ Species, common, and family names in English, French, and Spanish (text is English).
■ Lifetime FREE updates to species information.
As a standalone iPhone app, iBird does not require an Internet connection for access to the information in its database. This does mean that the application is large, so please be patient when downloading from iTunes.
What's New in Version 5.1
■ AUDIO CLIPS - from the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
■ CLOUD - Share Notes, Favorites, and Favorite Lists in the Apple "cloud" and never worry about backing up. Syncs favorites and notes to all devices automatically.
■ NEW LANDSCAPE MODE PHOTOS - Rotate your phone or iPad and the landscape photo fills the entire screen. New photo viewer works like the Apple Gallery, swipe to move between photos, as well as zoom and pinch.
■ GORGEOUS PAIRED ILLUSTRATIONS - We are beginning to combine male, female and the flight drawings into one gorgeous illustration. Take a look at the Black-headed Grosbeak, Painted Bunting and Blue Bunting for a sample.
■ PHOTO CENTER - The Photo Center is a gallery for storing, editing and assigning your photos to specific species pages and it lets you share them on Facebook, Twitter, or email them to friends.
■ HUB - The Hub is a centralized web site that pops up to provide you with the latest news, tips and tricks, and recent events in birding.
■ IBIRD BLOG - Mitch Waite, publisher of iBird, writes the stories in the iBird Blog, covering topics relevant to nature and apps: ibirdblog.wordpress.com
Customer Reviews
Still not in taxonomic order?
I bought the very first version (Western) and loved it so much I immediately upgraded to Pro. It was amazing! Illustrations, photos, songs and calls, all on my phone! I used it a lot, and others in my field trips would gather around to check out the descriptions. Then somewhere along the line the birds stopped being listed in taxonomic order within families, only alphabetically. The list no longer matches field guides. To me that's a deal breaker. I used to carry just the iPhone into the field and leave the books behind, but it's so frustrating looking at related species in this application now. "Say, is that a Greater or Lesser Scaup? Hang on... Let me scroll back and forth a few times to compare characteristics." It's too slow. Maybe it's not a big deal to many, but the fact that it used to be sortable by taxonomy and now you can't, means I rarely use it anymore. I'd rather take the field guide and use my Cornell recordings. It is a terrible loss, since everything else about the app has improved greatly over the years. Puzzling and frustrating.
So so
I am not loving this app so far. I don't like the way everything is grouped alphabetically instead of by AOU protocol. For instance why not group the Dendroica warblers together instead of listing them by name? Maybe I'll get used to it but I don't feel like my $15 was well spent.
I bird PRO
Without a doubt the BEST app available for bird lovers. With
the features available, you get all the information you ever need pertaining to any bird in North America.
- $2.99
- Category: Reference
- Updated: Dec 22, 2011
- Version: 5.1
- Size: 564 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Mitch Waite Group
- © Mitch Waite Group
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.1 or later
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