Birds of Peru 4+

Name: Birds of Peru
Price: 49.99 CAD
Rating: 3.8 (12 reviews)
Author: Birds In The Hand, LLC

Birds In The Hand, LLC

Conçue pour iPad

- 3,8 • 12 notes

- 49,99 $

Description

Princeton Field Guides are comprehensive, in-depth identification tools designed for all nature enthusiasts.

This is the interactive mobile field guide version of Birds of Peru by Schulenberg, Stotz, Lane, O'Neill & Parker. Like the paper edition, it is the most complete and authoritative field guide to this diverse neotropical landscape, featuring every one of Peru's 1,817 bird species. Every distinct plumage is covered in superb, high-quality color illustrations. This mobile version includes all of the same excellent content of the print edition plus audio for 1,510 species and "Smart Search" by color, size and habitat. It has been updated to reflect the current eBird/Clements taxonomy.

Peru is renowned for its spectacular array of wildlife and is home to nearly one fifth of the world’s bird species. It attracts birders and nature seekers from around the globe. The Birds of Peru mobile field guide is the most comprehensive and dependable birding tool for navigating this diverse neotropical landscape.

This easy-to-use application comes equipped with concise species descriptions, range maps, audio of bird calls, and detailed illustrations. Birds of Peru simplifies bird identification with an interactive Smart Search tool, and it makes it easy to keep track of bird sightings with an updatable life list. Birds of Peru is an important and must-have tool for all bird enthusiasts traveling in Peru, and is also useful in Colombia, Ecuador, the Brazilian Amazon, and Bolivia.

FEATURES:

• Detailed species accounts for all of Peru’s 1843 bird species
• Audio recordings for 1515 species, many including multiple songs or calls
• Gorgeous illustrations for every species, showing all major plumages and geographic variants
• Interactive Smart Search tool helps narrow down birds by region, color, size and/or habitat
• Easily track your sightings as you go
• Updated to reflect current eBird/Clements taxonomy

This mobile application was developed from a collaboration between Princeton Field Guides and Birds in the Hand, LLC.

Audio provided by Peter Boesman, et.al.

4 nov. 2016

Version 1.1

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

The taxonomy has been updated to reflect 2016 Clements/eBird:
- We added detailed species accounts for the new Peruvian splits, so we now cover all of Peru's 1843 bird species
- We added audio recordings for some splits (where available) now covering 1515 species
- We added notes to make cross-referencing the taxonomy to the paper version of the guide easier

We have also fixed some issues reported by users (thank you!):
- typo fixes
- misc content corrections
- Better audio descriptions were added
- Illustrations now include descriptions (i.e. subspecies, morphs, etc)

3,8 sur 5

12 notes

Great Resource, But More Vocalizations Desirable

Nothing else nearly so comprehensive and authoritative available for Peru, a nation whose avifauna is very complex. Good to see updates of nomenclature provided, but not enough recordings: several species are not covered, and in many instances the range of recordings offered for species is too limited.

Great app. Could use some technical adjustments

Love this app. It’s kept up to date and the acoustics are unparalleled. Only has some issues with searching Latin names, and the viewing gets weird when sorting or searching sometimes.

Birds of Peru - fair review

This is the best bird field guide App to anywhere south of the U.S. in the New World. It is s pioneering venture and covers an incredible number of species.

I can compare it with my use of the Collin's App in Europe, and the Sibley and NGS Apps in North America.

I used this App in northern Amazonia for 2 months and the central Andes for 1 week.

I've given it 3 stars in hopes that the authors will update it ASAP.

1. It needs more vocalizations. Many are missing, where they can easily be found online. I will try to submit a few recordings that I took on the trip and hopefully they will be accepted into the App! This goes for both species, subspecies, and vocalization types. Sometimes only a song or call is given which can be frustrating while in the field.

2. Errors in naming the plates. This occurs multiple times throughout the App with respect to Male/Female/Immature plumages. A very easy correction that I hope the authors get to ASAP.

3. Illustrate more subspecies, age and sex plumages. Rather than waiting for the 3rd edition of the book to come out (I assume there will be???) please have the principle artists illustrate a few dozen more plumages.

4. Maps. If future updates could include more of what the book version has with respect to maps. Inclusion of subspecies areas on the maps would be a huge asset. Other Apps have done this.

5. Hopefully future species maps can include eBird data which will be able more accurately map the occurrence.

6. "Rare". I feel like this term is used too often in describing species status that are perhaps just more likely referred to as "very uncommon" or "uncommon and local", etc.

7. Search. They need a search function for scientific names. Very important for biologists and for those trying to converse between English/Spanish, etc.

*** I think this App is excellent. But I also think it has much more potential to be more accurate and include more information. I look forward greatly to future updates, thanks to all who put this together.

Le développeur, Birds In The Hand, LLC, n’a pas fourni de détails à Apple sur ses pratiques en matière de confidentialité et son traitement des données.