Park Guides
By Shearwater Marketing Group
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Description
This interactive field guide to the wildlife of 50 National Parks includes all the birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians you'll encounter while visiting a park as well as helps you identify native trees and wildflowers. Created for the National Parks Conservation Association, the guide is also full of useful information about each park such as major sites within it, directions, hours and fees, and links and phone numbers to make reservations or get more information.
The NPCA National Parks Field Guides will help you do all sorts of things--- find out what species of bird you just saw on the beach in Cape Cod, learn what grizzly bears eat for dinner in Denali, know when porcupine mating season begins in the Shenandoah or reserve a camp ground in Yosemite.
It's comprehensive-- all native birds and animals are included, along with photos, in-depth descriptions, audio, field marks and more. Users can also search for Endangered Species or Poisonous/Dangerous species native to any of the 50 national parks featured.
The 50 parks included are a representative sampling of the hundreds of parks in the national park system that support critical wildlife habitat – from seashores and recreational areas to riverways and historical sites. They include Yellowstone National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Yosemite National Park, Cape Cod National Seashore, Gettysburg National Military Park, and Olympic National Park.
Intended for novices and experts alike, the guide’s design and content selection maximize its accessibility and ease-of-use so that users can easily find within the guide the wildlife they are most likely to encounter. No other field guide matches the content and capabilities of this mobile field guide.
The field guide was developed for the National Parks Conservation Association by eNature.com. At the heart of this mobile app is eNature’s comprehensive, geographically segmentable database of U.S. wildlife, both animals and plants. eNature.com’s core content of wildlife information includes almost 6,000 individual species and is the same data set used to create the printed Audubon Field Guides. All the data has been carefully reviewed and vetted by leading biologists, zoologists and other natural history specialists. eNature.com has consistently been one of the Internet's most-visited sites for nature and wildlife information and has won numerous awards and accolades.
What's New in Version 1.1.0
- Advanced Search
- Bug fixes
iPhone Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Nice preview but otherwise useless
Good information but need for Internet totally defeats use as field guide. In most parks there's no wifi & little useable cell phone Internet. Try to find a wildflower in Yellowstone? Or even a bird call in regional parks around San Francisco. Do your advance planning on a computer. Download what you need. And get a downloadable field guide. Recommend iBird for birds.
Data Connection Req
How hard is it to put those three little words "Data Connection Req'd" in the "Requirements" field?
Virtualy usless w/o a device resident Data Base (preferably available by park to save space).
species inaccuracies
overall this app looks very useful, but don't totally rely on it to accurately tell you what species may be found in a given park. For instance, it shows the western rattlesnake as being in Olympic National Park. But there are no rattlesnakes in western Washington, let alone Olympic.
- Free
- Category: Travel
- Updated: Nov 10, 2010
- Version: 1.1.0
- Size: 10.4 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Shearwater Marketing Group LLC
- © Copyright 2010 Shearwater Marketing Group
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.1 or later
