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By The Editors Audubon Magazine. Technology has been a part of birding for as long as people have been observing birds. Not the most complex, and certainly not digital, but it was technology nonetheless. Over the centuries technological advances have changed the hobby of birdwatching several times over. By the middle of the 20 th century, birders were equipped with the first field guides and better, lighter, more affordable binoculars.

So take a look at some of the apps described below as well as other birding apps not listed here and the next time you go birding heading out without your smartphone will feel as antiquated as heading out with a shotgun full of bird shot.

These apps are the most direct competitors with the classic paper field guides. Some, like iBird, are designed exclusively for the mobile app format, and others are digital versions of paper field guides you may already be familiar with Sibley, Audubon, National Geographic, Peterson, etc.

Covers species and features all of the drawings, range maps, and explanatory text found in the Sibley Guide to Birds. Taking advantage of the digital format it includes more than 2, recordings of songs and calls, a compare species function, and a smartsearch tool that allows you to filter species by color, shape, and your current location.

Covers species using photos instead of drawings, includes range maps that also cover Central and South America, has a good selection of audio recordings including alternate calls and regional variations, and slightly more descriptive text including habitat, range, and nesting information.

Similar species and browse by family or shape tools are useful for identifying unknown birds, and includes a find birds with eBird function to find nearby reports of specific species. Covers species in the Pro version with both photos and drawings of each species. Great audio recordings, including variations and convenient links to similar-sounding species.

Five different versions from Lite to Ultimate available with different features and species. Much like the field guides above the goal of these apps is to help you identify an unknown bird. However, these apps take a more active role in the process, analyzing your observations, photos, and audio recordings to help you arrive at an ID.

Most of these are less than a couple of years old and while they are fun and useful now, they show great promise for the application of this technology to birding in the future. Ideally this should be FOSS. This is why IoT is such a mixed bag for consumers. This would have been quite a while ago. This was how BB OS 7 and earlier worked. The short version is that you need to turn off BlackBerry Protect if you want to wipe and reload the OS. This appears to be because Protect tends to turn itself back on:.

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The Time of Day feature is particularly useful for birders who are interested in night birding and is available as an inexpensive in-app update for 99 cents. Please note that we are in the process of updating the paragraphs for each species so this first release will not be complete.

Dropbox Migration is back. As you may know before we implemented iCloud for syncing Favorites, Notes and Photos, we used Dropbox. We made the shift because Dropbox removed an essential feature we used for the backup and sync feature to work.

We thought enough time had gone by that most of our customers had migrated to iCloud, but we discovered that was not the case. So, we have implemented the Dropbox migration again feature so that customers who are still using it can let iBird move their Notes and Favorites to iCloud.

You will still need to reassign your photos once they have been moved to your iCloud folder. New Sounds. Check out the female call of a Northern Hawk Owl in flight and female alarm calls from a Spotted Owl. We are committed to adding to our extensive sound library and routinely check for new sounds that we can include. Our Western Screech-Owl is a prime example of this. While we had the song, trill and alarm calls for this species we were able to add female and begging whinny calls as well as a different type of alarm call.

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