Chirp! Bird Songs & Calls USA

Chirp! Bird Songs & Calls USA

By Spiny Software Ltd

  • Category: Reference
  • Release Date: 2010-04-01
  • Current Version: 3.2.2
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 299.37 MB
  • Developer: Spiny Software Ltd
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 14.5
Score: 4.6196
4.6196
From 347 Ratings

Description

Listen to and learn hundreds of bird songs and calls from across the continental United States, with up to 34 seconds of song for each bird, and alternative recordings for some birds. Choose a state or group of states then sort the bird sounds in a variety of ways. Sort by song style to compare birds that hoot and coo, with birds with high pitched songs, or you might like to sort the birds by commonness, so you can listen to the most common ones first, then move on to less frequent backyard visitors. More advanced birders may like to listen to birds from a particular habitat, such as forest or freshwater for example. You can make lists of your favourites so that you can find them quickly. Use the quiz to test your memory. Answer fast to earn a score multiplier and get on the high score table. Experienced birders can use the custom quiz to help distinguish and learn similar songs. And when you need a rest, try the slideshow feature - choose which birds to include, maybe add background bird song, then simply relax. If you want to continue learning while you relax, switch the voiceover on and hear the name of the bird announced at the end of each clip. This is also a good way of competing with the family - who can say the name of the bird first? Bird names are included in Spanish and French. Problems? Email us: [email protected]

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Reviews

  • Good but also frustrating

    4
    By scenographer
    It’s a great concept but frustrating in practice. I was mostly looking for for a way to learn the birdsongs of the rich bird life in my area. While there is an option to make a selection for a slideshow to include your own regularly seen birds, there is no way to save this selection as a list, despite there being a button for “Saved lists” which remains frustratingly blank. Pre selected lists such as “Habitat” and Region miss many many local birds and include too many not found in my locale. Maryland and Delaware are not in included in regional lists for some reason. The overall list is also rather incomplete. Although they probably have to stick to more commonly found birds due to file size constraints, more than a third of birds found in my own neighborhood are not represented. If you are ok with simply learning what the app offers, then you will probably enjoy it just fine.
  • Real bird songs

    5
    By Quercas Alba
    I really like the app but the songbird search doesn’t work. Needs a little improvement.
  • Great help

    5
    By tea & hope
    This has helped to identify the songs and the birds by sight , sound, picture , wonderful 👍
  • Having App 'Issues'

    3
    By Kidcosby
    This has been a great app. I've had it many years ...as of Recents I'm having issues with Chirp USA , upon opening the app it often goes immediately to settings?? and can be difficult to get to the home menu. I have already made sure my settings are all as I wish. I believe I have once uninstall the app and reinstalled was not a lot of improvement.. I may need to shop for another app similar as this once was very easy to navigate and user-friendly
  • Voiceover no longer works

    2
    By takinganothername
    Until recently the app was awesome, but the voiceover for the slideshow recently stopped working, which defeats the reason I use the app. I like to exercise or do chores while listening to bird songs, trying to identify them and then listening to the voice over to tell me whether my identification was correct. I can’t do that anymore.
  • Frustrating

    1
    By allinlistening
    I had used this app years ago and really enjoyed it. Downloaded it yesterday. The updates are very frustrating. I can’t go to a visual list. The extra work of having to click back to home page every time I want to view a bird. If the name of the bird I’d Robbin, I have to click, go back to home page, click, go back to home page, etc., too much work and time. If I’m doing something wrong, plz advise. For now. I’m going elsewhere.
  • Use To Be Great

    2
    By Freshkills
    No longer compatible with iOS as of v 15.2.1
  • Good and could be better

    4
    By AnaBananaIL
    This is a fantastic app for learning songs and calls. Separating birds by region, the different levels of quizzes, especially the quiz on your chosen favorites is great. It would be even better if you could make several lists beyond one favorite. For instance, I now know many songs but would like to make a separate list for just calls since those are more difficult. I hope that’s an easy addition to this fantastic app!
  • Good app, but needs some improvement.

    3
    By allendwebb
    This app is good, but it needs some improvement in two major areas. First, it needs more birds. I downloaded the app so I could improve my birdsong ID skills. But I can’t do that when it has only four species of shorebirds, which include one species of gull, one species of sandpiper, and one species of plover, plus the American Woodcock, no species of swallows, and no species of Egrets, to name a few. Quite frustrating. On a similar note the Level 3 quiz that says it’s supposed to include 50 birds, actually only includes about 10-20. If you took the quiz several times, most of the time it would only quiz you on the same 10 birds. Again, frustrating if you’re trying to learn bird songs. This app might be good for a beginner to learn bird songs, but you will eventually get to a point where your skills and demands of the app will exceed its limitations.
  • Love it but can’t use it snymore

    4
    By contented and happy
    I’ve loved this app, but it no longer works on my iphone. When I try, I get an error message saying the app needs to be updated to work with this version of IOS. Boo!

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