The Warbler Guide

The Warbler Guide

By Princeton University Press

  • Category: Reference
  • Release Date: 2014-12-21
  • Current Version: 1.1.0
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 647.42 MB
  • Developer: Princeton University Press
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
Score: 4.45714
4.45714
From 35 Ratings

Description

Warbler Guide App Tom Stephenson & Scott Whittle Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Best App/eProduct The Warbler Guide App is the perfect companion to Princeton’s revolutionary and widely acclaimed book The Warbler Guide, by Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle. Whether for study or field use, this innovative app delivers the full power of The Warbler Guide in your pocket—plus unique new app-only features. The app allows you to identify birds by view or song, quickly and intuitively. Exciting new 3D graphics enable you to view a bird from the exact angle you see it in the field. And the whole range of warbler songs is easily played, compared, and filtered. Breakthrough features from The Warbler Guide book that are included in the app: • Rapid and confident two-step ID process using visual finders and comparison species • The first complete treatment of warbler songs, using a new objective vocabulary • An intuitive visual finder that includes side, 45-degree, and undertail views • Master Pages with detailed ID points • Complete guide to determining the age and sex of warblers with photos of all ages and sexes • Annotated sonograms showing song structure and key ID points • Complete songs, chip calls, and flight calls for all species • Comparison species for making confident visual and audio IDs • Many additional photos to show behavior and reinforce key ID points • Highlighted diagnostic ID points • Color Impression Icons for narrowing down ID of warblers from the briefest glimpses • Behavior and habitat icons Unique new app-only features: • 3D models of birds in all plumages, rotatable and pinch-zoomable to match field experience of a bird • Intuitive, visual, and interactive finders with filters for possible species based on audio and visual criteria chosen by the user • Playback of all songs and vocalizations with sonograms makes study of vocalizations easy • Selectable finder sortings grouped by color, alphabetical order, song type, and taxonomic order • Interactive song finder using objective vocabulary for fast ID of unknown songs • Simultaneous visual and song finders make identifying an unknown warbler even easier • Half-speed song playback allows for easier study of song structure • Comparison species with selectable side, 45 degree, and undertail views • Features 75 3D images • Covers 48 species and 75 plumages • Includes 277 vocalizations, 156 songs, 73 contact calls, and 48 flight calls • Detailed "how to use" tutorial screens Requires iOS 7.0 or later Tom Stephenson’s articles and photos have appeared in Birding and Bird Watcher’s Digest, at Surf-birds.com, and in the Handbook of the Birds of the World. He has guided groups across the United States and Asia. A musician, he has had several Grammy and Academy Award winners as clients, and was director of technology at Roland Corporation. Scott Whittle lives in Cape May, New Jersey, and has twenty years of experience as a professional photographer and educator. He holds an MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York, is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony, and is a onetime New York State Big Year record holder.

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Reviews

  • Great app

    5
    By moments whispered
    I just finished a nine day trip in Texas at High Island. This app is helpful for review and study beforehand and quick reference when needed. Five stars cause I love it. I hope for improvement in in the moment bird ID when inputting details in the field.
  • Connecticut Warbler

    5
    By BrutalBrutus
    Great app, you need to update the underside picture of connecticy warbler-the big grey blob from the branch covers up the underside/coverts
  • Awesome concept-almost perfect

    4
    By USuser
    I’m no expert but know my way around. My only beef with this app is that using filters it simply will not recognize, at times, a pretty obvious bird based on even a couple of field marks. Today, I had a Pine Warbler during Fall migration in Northern Virginia and I input a yellow throat and wing bars (also tried eye arc), yet it did not return PIWA as a possibility! I don’t understand the algorithms in this app that would exclude PIWA based on that input this locale. I have been using this otherwise superb app for a few years and would not comment if this wasn’t a somewhat frequent problem. That said, the birdsong features, and the 3-dimensional utility is incredible. I would like to see a more robust side-by-side comparison tool (ie select any pair of species).
  • Brilliant app

    5
    By Patrik6
    A great aid in discerning what warbler you were looking at in the field. The comparative chart with other species is valuable. The rotatable 3-D illustration of each warbler is fantastic.
  • No search feature

    3
    By kimberlyfour
    I was excited to discover this app. Instead, I have been disappointed by the poor design of the app and the lack of a search feature. I wanted to look up a warbler that the app considers outside my region. The only way to do this was to change the region so the bird would show up. For the high price of the app, I expect better.
  • love the app!

    2
    By ricky coyote
    But giving a 2 rating because I hate the location feature. Why not allow a user to scroll through all the species? Inconvenient.
  • GCWA are in Tx not CA!

    4
    By Funkeymonkeys
    I’ve been using this app for several years. It’s a handy reference to carry on your phone when out in the field. I love the ability to change views of all the birds to compare with the view you saw. Living in central TX, I’ve wondered why they don’t list the Golden Cheeked Warbler at all. I figured it was so regionally limited to the TX Hill Country that they chose to omit it. Just today, I switched my map from the Southeast Version to the Southwest Map which covers from New Mexico to the pacific. Guess who I found! Golden Cheeked Warblers are only listed in the SW map (which does not include TX for this app). Please, consider moving our favorite warbler to its rightful territory! The app would be much improved by making it easier to show “overlap” birds for those of us who are close to two map edges.
  • Ok for beginners

    3
    By Brown_Creeper
    This app is nice but a little frustrating. I find it easy to use for identifying the male species of warblers, but not much else. I really wish you were able to click on the type of warbler and see all plumages of male/female/1st year with underside tail plates of each too—Spring and Fall should all be grouped under same bird. The pics are a bit fuzzy and disorganized in my opinion. I really like the 3-D views, similar species listings, and “drab” references; however, really wish that everything was organized together for you for quicker referencing. Should have the underside tail plates in a quick-reference area too.
  • This app is expensive trash! Don’t waste your $$$

    1
    By Msa12757746552648
    This app is annoying and basic. I can’t believe they are charging $14.14 for this garbage app! There is nothing in here that isn’t shown in other free apps. There are not enough photos showing plumage distinctions in different seasons. And not enough verbiage to describe the specifics needed for a positive id. I really hate this app so much! Don’t waste your money!
  • Good content needs search function

    4
    By P SOUL
    Great content. Really helpful for improving ID. Could benefit from a search option to locate whatever bird you want to see. It’s hard to use in the field when you run into a bird and quickly want to navigate to its info pages.

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