All Birds Ecuador field guide

All Birds Ecuador field guide

By Mullen & Pohland GbR

  • Category: Reference
  • Release Date: 2016-04-26
  • Current Version: 2.2
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 2.10 GB
  • Developer: Mullen & Pohland GbR
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 12.4
Score: 4.23684
4.23684
From 38 Ratings

Description

*** Planning to go bird watching in Ecuador? Then this is the app for you. This app fills a gap in the region and is the only app available for Ecuador! It is based on renowned reference work of the Helm Guide Series "Birds of Northern South America" by Robin Restall, Clemencia Rodner, and Miguel Lentino. The creation of apps from the book is a co-production between Bloomsbury Plc and Sunbird Images. The app contains 5,000 illustrations and more than 3,000 bird songs and calls in total. >> Neotropical Birding Magazine writes: *** "Condensing Restall’s two-volume work into an app, while remaining usable, is no mean feat - and Sunbird Images deserve recognition
 for successfully doing so. Navigation is admirably straightforward." *** *** "Two nice touches are displaying the sonogram in ‘real time’ with the vocalisation, and a ‘loop’ facility to make playback more manageable." *** *** "The app is self-evidently the equal of Restall et al. as an identification tool, and a smartphone is so much more portable than a field guide. Moreover, the in-built vocalisations are arguably worth the purchase price alone..." *** This app is part of the Sunbird Images BLUE LABEL series. Our BLUE LABEL series are top notch digital field guides which provide the most comprehensive data available for a region or taxon. They stand for completeness including even the very rare species and vagrants which have only been recorded once or a few times in a region. Even the rare species are illustrated and described in detail featured with a full species account. No other bird app for this region offers the following: - Includes all 1,612 Ecuadorian bird species including all vagrants - Selection of 5,000 illustrations from the reference work "Birds of Northern South America" - All subspecies + geographic, age and sex variations illustrated - 3,158 bird songs and calls - Most advanced Compare Mode of any bird app - compare up to 16 species images / songs / maps - Spectrograms of all songs + details where songs were recorded - Detailed distribution maps of Northern South America down to subspecies level - Introduction contains hints and links on bird watching in Ecuador - Create sighting lists and sort by place, date, group, and name - Automatically plots all birds on a map via GPS (editable) - Make notes for each bird spotted - A simple identification key narrows species down - Sort and display species: A–Z, 6 different languages, taxonomic Ecuador is a prime birding spot and a country of extremes. It covers altitudes between coastal regions up to heights of more than 6,000 m and habitats that include coasts with beaches, Desert Woodland and Arid Scrub, Páramo, Temperate as well as Subtropical Montane Forest (Cloud Forest/ Elfin Woodland), the Amazon Rainforest in particular, Swamps and Mangroves. Ecuador has the largest biodiversity per square kilometre in the world, with an unlimited number of possibilities for birding. Choose between 6 bird name languages: English, Latin, Spanish, French, Dutch, German Narrow species down by foot colour, bill shape, tail length etc. leading to the bird searched for plus a choice of similar species. You can also look for fragments of a species name – the search for “finch“ shows all the species which include the word “finch“ in the species’ name. ***A graphically well-designed layout – easy to use with large lettering.*** "All Birds Ecuador" is very well suited for keeping personalised bird watch lists. The app will be continuously developed further. 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 www.sunbird.tv. We are happy, if you like our app. Please don't hesitate to email us if you have any questions or suggestions or comments at: [email protected]

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Reviews

  • Nice addition to my other Ecuadorian field guides

    5
    By jake93chut
    I can use this app in the field for a broader catalogue of calls/songs than just Merlín. It’s also a good quick reference (easy to use and easy to find the bird you’re looking for).
  • Nebirds!

    5
    By Nebirds
    This app is great and has been super helpful while traveling all through out Ecuador and Colombia!
  • Great layout!

    4
    By RPR200
    I haven’t taken the app into the field yet, but my first impression is very favorable. It is laid out in a way that is very easy to use, and the sound recordings are a valuable feature that you can’t get in a printed field guide. The checklist feature is really nice too.
  • Beats Carrying a Book

    3
    By SueB1023
    Illustrations and audio are good and the comparison feature is isn’t as good as Audubon’s but it’s nice enough. Very lacking on adding your observations unless you do it right in the field, which is often impractical. You have to go into the map application each and every time you want to add a bird to a list. Once you start a list, why not have a feature to add a sighting to it with the same date and location? Otherwise, what’s the point of giving a list a title? I obviously won’t be using it to keep track of my sightings on my upcoming trip, which was the main reason I forked over $25 for it - but it beats lugging a field guide around.
  • Excellent app for Ecuador

    5
    By VT phan
    Heading to Ecuador in a few weeks and wanted an app to bring along in the field instead of lugging a book around. The app is very well organized and easy to navigate.
  • Upcoming Trip

    5
    By kvino
    I purchased this app to prepare for an upcoming trip. The app is well organized and easy to navigate. The sounds are extensive. Now it time to study!
  • As good as it gets

    5
    By NH birder
    I use this app as a tool for learning the birds by ear. I used their Trinidad and Tobago app before my trip to Ada Wright and significantly increased my ability to identify birds while there. I expect the same in Ecuador.
  • First impression is very promising

    5
    By BirderGolfer
    Just downloaded the app, and it looks aesthetically pleasing as soon as you open it. The groupings are very helpful and as you drill down, the flow appears to be logical and as you’d expect. Can’t wait to put it to use next week when in Ecuador
  • Great to use in the field!

    5
    By kristin.bell
    All of the illustrations are beautifully rendered, and the “similar species” button is really helpful when confirming identification. I’m so glad I had this on my recent trip, and I loved being able to make daily lists to track my sightings. The recorded calls and songs were also very helpful!
  • First impressions

    4
    By QC opinions
    So far I’ve only used this app to familiarize myself with the species and test identifying birds using the app and eBird’s photo quiz. Seems to work fairly well especially if you know the family of the bird you are trying to identify. The key that allows you to select features of the bird to then give you the most probable species as a percentage match does give an excessively long list including 1152 species rather than eliminate species from the list. The app does a really nice job of highlighting vagrants and endemic species including toggles in settings to not show or only show those.

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