iBird Pro Guide to Birds

Scientific American magazine recommends iBird in August 2012 issue, see page 84.

As seen in Apple’s TV commercial “We have an app for that” (ibird.com/itchy), iBird is the world’s best-selling birding app, which comes with a powerful decision engine for identifying any bird species of North America in seconds. This latest update adds features that will turn anyone into a birding expert.

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• INCLUDES 928 SPECIES FROM NORTH AMERICA AND HAWAII – no other app comes close to this number of species.
• INCLUDES 29 NEW SPECIES DRAWINGS.
• CLOUD SYNC – Automatically syncs Favs, Notes and Settings to the Apple cloud.
• 38 SEARCH ATTRIBUTES – search by color, shape, song, location, head and body patterns, flight style and much more. Includes a new way to search by color, tutorials on how to use the search and definitions of every attribute.
• AUDIO SONGS AND CALLS – iBird offers 5 hours of bird songs and calls from the gold standard of recordings; the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 154 more species song tracks than any other bird app!
• UNIQUE SPECTROGRAPHIC DISPLAY brings insight to the structure of bird songs by allowing you to view the sound's frequency components.
• SAVE & LOAD SEARCH - Now you can save, load, name and edit your favorite search attributes and use them over and over.
• CONFORMS TO ABA AND AOU STANDARDS – We are bringing iBird into conformity with the ABA and AOU standard for North America. Check the splits of the Winter Wren and Whip-poor-will.
• PHOTO CENTER - Photo Center is a gallery for storing and assigning your photos to specific species pages in iBird. It also allows you to share photos via Facebook, Twitter, or email them to friends.
• SLIDESHOW FOR ILLUSTRATIONS - Now you can watch not just photos but also illustrations in the slideshow with bird songs in the background.
• TAXONOMIC ORDERING IN FAMILY MODE – Now sort order of species in the Family mode is true taxonomic; alphabetic sort by Family is still available.
• OTHER NEW FEATURES – Retina icons, new search attributes: Color Prominent, Breast Color, Eyebrow head pattern. All photos have been given descriptive tittles.

AWARDS and ACCOLADES for iBird:

• MACWORLD'S "BEST REFERENCE APP 2009: 4 ½ out of 5 mice."
• O'REILLY "BEST IPHONE BIRDWATCHING APP 2009"
• RUNNER UP: 2011 BEST APP EVER AWARD FROM 148APPS.COM

Standard Features:

• Parameter driven search engine 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.
• Hand-drawn full sized color illustrations, with perching and flight views.
• Multiple professional photographs for each species showing sexes and seasons.
• 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.
• Links to detailed Birdipedia pages and hundreds of Flickr photos for each bird (requires internet connection).
• Bookmark birds as Favorites for fast access.
• Date and time stamped Notes for every species account.
• Use Favorites lists as life list, yard list, travel lists, etc.
• Favorites and Notes are auto synced to the cloud for backup and editing.
• Species, common, and family names in English, French, and Spanish (text is English).

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.