The Michael Morcombe and David Stewart eGuide to the Birds of Australia LITE 4+
mydigitalearth.com
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
This is a LITE version of The Michael Morcombe eGuide to the Birds of Australia but is fully functional and includes ONLY 59 species, compared to 796 species in the full app. If you like the way this app works please check out the full version.
The foremost field guide to Australian birds is now available as a fully universal app on the iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad with a comprehensive collection of bird calls.
Michael Morcombe’s Field Guide to Australian Birds has been called the most comprehensive field guide to Australian birds in the market today and now it is perfectly complimented by the eGuide which features:
iOS optimised controls – swipe to next or previous species, one-tap enlargement of an image (iPad) and rotate the device (landscape) to enlarge an image completely (and fit the width of the screen).
Over 300 hi-res bird images covering 59 bird species.
Most bird species have a detailed distribution map showing any subspecies that occur.
Detailed text descriptions of almost all bird species including songs and calls, measurements and breeding behaviour.
Over 170 carefully-selected and edited sound recordings. Many species are represented with multiple call examples showing the full range of vocalizations.
The ability to compare any two images, maps, or sounds, side by side on the screen. The ability to filter by geographic location, so that you see only the species likely to occur in your location, and to further reduce the possibilities to usual or vagrant species in the selected area.
A “Smart Search” that gives the ability to search by distinguishing features such as size, colour, physical features, habitat and exclude certain types of birds (eg. Passerines).
A basic personal species list that stores your sightings saved to the device* with the ability to email the list.
A comprehensive help and introduction section to help you if you get stuck or don’t understand how a certain feature works.
*Uninstalling/reinstalling the program will result in the loss of your list, it is recommended that you keep your own backup (master list) separate from the application.
We invite all users to share their comments and ideas on our forum at www.mydigitalearth.com
NB. This Application WILL ONLY work on an iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad running iOS V7.1 or higher NOT A NORMAL IPOD CLASSIC/NANO.
What’s New
Version 1.2.1
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Changed the minimum supported iOS version to 7.1 to prevent an app crash in a future iOS update.
Fixed a few bugs and errors.
Ratings and Reviews
Full reference version needs more thought
Bought the expensive full version but found that the version registered under my purchases was mislabelled as the LITE version. Unable to family share this expensive app with my wife and found that all attempts to do so resulted in only the useless Lite version being shared!
The search index was particularly poor so for example a search for all kingfishers in the top end failed to highlight the buff breasted paradise kingfisher as the search engine cannot cope with hyphenated words. Similarly the variety of bird calls failed to capture the commonest calls of many species. The illustrations exclude any photographs of birds and comprise only line drawings.
Despite numerous emails, the authors support team failed to resolve my issues with sharing the reference app. As an experienced birder, I cannot recommend this version and hope that this 2 year old app is shortly to be extensively revised.
Lite too limited, full seriously over-priced
There are 59 birds listed in the Lite version and that's for all of Australia. What there is may be interesting enough but the scope is far far too limited. The idea of course is to buy the full version - which may be very good but at £21 British money is vastly vastly over-priced. A shame, I'd've bought it had it been reasonably priced. As it is, the Lite version is no good for general birdspotting and is therefore frustrating. I'm deleting it.
Very limited app
This may be good for the casual or first time spotter - but for even semi-serious bird watchers this app will disappoint. Only 1 Cockatoo listed for Australia - seriously?
The own bird listing function is useful as is the bird calls. This is a good database but very short of birds . Don't buy it.
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Information
- Provider
- Cool Ideas LLC
- Size
- 57.9 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 7.1 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 7.1 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 7.1 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2013 Cool Ideas LLC
- Price
- Free