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Birds of the World app? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter dyuhas
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kitefarrago
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There aren't even apps for all regions of the world, let alone a single app that covers all species. I think the best you can hope for is making strategic choices regarding regional apps (you may run into memory issues as well, depending on your device - if you're taking a laptop as well you can swap out apps depending on your mobile device depending on where you currently are), and using the internet for the rest.
Maybe reformulating your request to one soliciting recommendations for apps for specific regions would be more productive. For that it might be a good idea to give some notion regarding where you expect to travel.
Andrea
Maybe reformulating your request to one soliciting recommendations for apps for specific regions would be more productive. For that it might be a good idea to give some notion regarding where you expect to travel.
Andrea
Some regional apps I have are:
André
- eGuide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (mydigitalearth): Covers India, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Good drawings, however some errors are build in which were never corrected (several wrong maps, 2 species confused).
- Collins Bird Guide App (http://collinsbirdguideapp.com/): Covers Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. An excellent app, included songs, maps and really good drawings.
- The Michael Morcombe and David Stewart eGuide to the Birds of Australia (mydigitalearth): covers Australia. Includes songs, however the drawings are not the best...
André
The following thread may be of some assistance:
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=291808
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=291808
Another alternative that I have never experimented with but heard about: get a subscription to http://www.hbw.com/
You should be able to make custom PDF plates with some of the drawings, and download those onto your device. Obviously, this is clumsy and would have to be supplemented with voice downloads from Xeno Canto.
Niels
You should be able to make custom PDF plates with some of the drawings, and download those onto your device. Obviously, this is clumsy and would have to be supplemented with voice downloads from Xeno Canto.
Niels
dalat
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If you travel the world for birding, you certainly should subscribe for that. Only 30 € or so per year and it gives you an increadible complete resource on all birds of the world. However:
- it is not an app, it is a website, so needs an internet connection
- it is not an ID guide. The descriptions and the plates are helpful to support IDs, but using hbw alone won't work in many cases (e.g. the plates show only birds standing birds in breeding plumage)
I think there is no way around using the few regional ID apps available and books for the rest. Try to buy the books on the way, and send back books you don't need any more as you move on (or give them away to some local guides or birders), then you don't need to carry more than a few...
dalat
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I've played with this, but I don't think there is a very comfortable function to download plates. The best I found is to either safe the plates as html files (they can then later be opened offline in the browser) or print them into a pdf (with a little akward formatting). This works, but I don't think its very comfortable to use offline.
And most importantly, the plates show standing males only. No females, no juveniles and no pictures in flight. So not really useable for replacing a field guide.
