Birds of Great Britain - a Sunbird field guide


Birds of Great Britain - a Sunbird field guide
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Description

*** Birds of Great Britain offers 1600 selected photographs of 318 birds, > 650 bird songs, maps and eggs. Find information no other UK bird app has: bird population size UK, abundance, migration and breeding status UK - for 318 species in the UK including all breeding species. With COMPARE FUNCTION! ***

This exceptional app includes the native species of The UK. The app includes all birds that are usually recorded more than 10x annually meaning it also includes all commoner vagrants. It has been developed by passionate field ornithologists and published ecologists.

Comes with distribution maps and 1,600 premium photos in HD-quality and 658 bird songs. You can map birds with GPS, make your own lists and explore 5 search modes, all bird names in 19 languages.

A simple identification key narrows the species down (e.g. by foot colour, bill shape etc.) leading to the bird searched for and a choice of similar species.

Despite the abundance of species provided: in order to precisely identify a bird no previous knowledge or ornithological expert skills are required.

Use the COMPARE FUNCTION to choose up to eight species on the iPhone and up to 16 species on the iPad for direct comparison. You can compare images, distribution maps, eggs, and bird songs.

Special features:

– Includes the 318 native species of the UK
– COMPARE FUNCTION
– Detailed distribution maps
– Extensive descriptions to every species with 25 sub-features each!
– 1,600 well selected photographs, all in HD quality (1024 x 678 Pixels)
– Photos to each species, including female as well as summer and winter plumage for nearly every species
– All images labeled
– Sort and display species: A-Z, 20 different languages, by taxonomy
– Egg photos of 90% of all UK species
– 658 bird songs and calls (93% coverage)
– Spectrograms of all songs
– Create sighting lists and sort by place, date, group, or name
– automatically plots all spots on a UK map via GPS, editable
– Make notes for each bird spotted
– Simple identification keys
– Search for Latin or common name (or part of name) through search screen

***A graphically well-designed layout – easy to use with large lettering.***

“Birds of the UK” is very well suited for keeping personalised bird watch lists.

This app provides extensive texts and data for each bird species with information to:
Appearance, ecology, population size, frequency, habitat and much more. The texts for this app have especially been written for the UK. This holds for population size, abundance, breeding status, local distribution etc.

The app will be continuously developed further. In the future, more photos and songs as well as new identification features will be added constantly.

All updates are free of charge. Once downloaded no internet connection needed – just download the app and start birding!

Visit our internet support site for more information. We are happy, if you like our app. In any case, please don't hesitate to email: [email protected]

What's New in Version 1.6.1

This app has been updated by Apple to use the latest Apple signing certificate.

- Bug fix where app crashed after a few times when in use
- new images added!
- home button added

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