Subject: [Tweeters] IPhone Birding App For PNW?
Date: Tue Jun 2 16:34:50 PDT 2020
From: Janet Ray - janetlaura at earthlink.net

We use the Sibley app. You need to pay for it but we think it is well worth the price. It covers North America but you can set the call-ups by state, so you can choose Washington (or if further afield Oregon, BC etc.)
It has a generous though not exhaustive set of bird images (male,female,immat), decent maps, basically the same verbals as Sibleys books, a comparison feature which is helpful if you're trying to sort out two similar species, and a selection of bird song recordings. For those in the PNW this is possibly its weakest feature since the recordings (labeled with region taken) do not include a lot of PNW song variations. Yet we have still found them hugely helpful.
The other nice thing is it is an easy app to use - the one down side- its search function, which insists on perfect spelling, including apostrophes. (Really?)
I'd be interested in hearing what others are using and recommend.
Janet Ray
Preston WA


> On Jun 1, 2020, at c)12:47 PM, Vincent Lucas <vincentlucas5 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> An iPhone owner friend of mine is looking for an app that is for just the birds of the PNW, or better yet, the State of Washington. He lives in the Olympic Peninsula and is a fairly new border. He is overwhelmed by apps that cover all of the United States or North America. He wants to learn the local bird songs/calls he frequently hears. Barring that so such app exists, is there a way to "modify", for lack of a better word, an existing app so that it plays only "local" bird calls/songs? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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> Vincent Lucas

> Port Angeles, WA

> vincentlucas5 at gmail.com

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