Excellent bird guide with audio
Truly excellent with a broad range of information.
4 stars for one reason - the audio clips have been badly processed (not a recording issue) during production, with too much output gain applied, destroying both their quality and accuracy.
4 stars for one reason - the audio clips have been badly processed (not a recording issue) during production, with too much output gain applied, destroying both their quality and accuracy.
Excellent app
Great pictures, descriptions and distribution maps, looking forward to a future version that includes southern Europe
excellent
Une guide très complet, avec une très bonne iconographie, d'excellent enregistrements du chant, et d'excellentes descriptions. seul "défaut" les descriptions ne sont que en anglais. On peut afficher les noms en deux langues max, par ex français et scientifique
Mais par rapport au guide papier c'est un énorme progrès (poids, exhaustivité, son)
Une jolie fonction de comparaison avec des espèces proches aussi !
Si l'anglais n'est pas un problème pour vous c'est un must !!
Mais par rapport au guide papier c'est un énorme progrès (poids, exhaustivité, son)
Une jolie fonction de comparaison avec des espèces proches aussi !
Si l'anglais n'est pas un problème pour vous c'est un must !!
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Great field tool, now 64 bit
Always liked this app, well worth the initial outlay.
I understand this is now optimised for 64 bit, so ready for when iOS drops 32 bit architecture.
Possibly a little nippier. Still the best bird field guide around.
I understand this is now optimised for 64 bit, so ready for when iOS drops 32 bit architecture.
Possibly a little nippier. Still the best bird field guide around.
Rubbish
Asked for a refund, but apple said no!
The illustrations are poor and the information is limited, was expecting BWP.
The Collins bird id app is 100% superior.
Just hope they work on it and that it improves in the future, but wont hold my breath.
The illustrations are poor and the information is limited, was expecting BWP.
The Collins bird id app is 100% superior.
Just hope they work on it and that it improves in the future, but wont hold my breath.
Dommage que cela ne soit pas en français
Très belles photos dans l'appli.
Les titres des oiseaux sont bien en français mais les explications sont en anglais.
Les titres des oiseaux sont bien en français mais les explications sont en anglais.
Trading Standards?
I love this app, it's always been very good. But where are "the full, detailed text accounts" from BCP, which were there in the previous version and are advertised as being a major feature in this version? The text of each entry cuts off at Distribution, so there is no info on Population, Movements, Food, Social Pattern and Behaviour, Voice, Breeding, Length and Weight or Geographical Variation.
Please release an update that lives up to the description of the product, as this falls a long way short.
Please release an update that lives up to the description of the product, as this falls a long way short.
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Beautiful app!
Gorgeous illustrations, well-organized. I like how it lists all species in taxonomic order, by family. The other review says there aren't descriptions and bird calls, but this is incorrect. The app does include bird calls and descriptions. Just scroll along thumbnails at bottom.
AJB63
This was going to get an absolute slating, but I've just discovered how to change the language from its ridiculous American default setting (Birds of Northern Europe, for heaven's sake) to English. Go into settings; language; primary language "English" and all is well with the world again. It could do with the return of the alphabetically arranged scroll bar and it does have a tendency to freeze, but at least I don't have to remember how to spell grey, I mean gray and not to introduce searches with 'Eurasian' or 'European'. And I no longer feel the need to demand my money back for an app that no longer represents the birds I expect it to.
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Calidad de dibujos falta muchísima detalle
Buena Applicacion útil para llevar se de camino, salvo que se ve muy limitado el detalle de los dibujos, más faltan muchas especies accidentales, o de la península ibérica. Como guía básica muy útil, aún por el precio muy alto.
Recomendable pero hay que mejorar la calidad de los dibujos porfavor, por este dinero me espero un poco más que sólo esto.
Recomendable pero hay que mejorar la calidad de los dibujos porfavor, por este dinero me espero un poco más que sólo esto.
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Bad update
Am unhappy that information has been omitted such as population figures for different countries and that the navigation has been made more difficult. Looks nicer though and a few bugs have been resolved.
Disapointing new version
Automatically uploaded new version a great disappointment, will probably delete it, waste of money now, previous version got a five star :(
As a post script, this has put me off their other apps.
As a post script, this has put me off their other apps.
Oh dear oh dear
Do you ever wish you'd never updated an app ? I certainly do with this effort . Take something that works perfectly and ruin it in one go . Everything is so long winded to get to , and the songs don't loop anymore , also we'res the a-z down the side ?
Pointless and perplexing in one easy lesson .
Pointless and perplexing in one easy lesson .
Excellent
Just what I wanted
Robbery!
Much of the text from earlier versions has been removed (eg Black Stork is missing all the following sections now: behavior, population, movements, voice and breeding; all species seem to at least bd missing population now!).
Nature Guides should offer users to opt for a full refund instead. This is no longer what I purchased!
Nature Guides should offer users to opt for a full refund instead. This is no longer what I purchased!
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Just awful
This updated version is even worse than the previous one and that one was dreadful.
All of the species sections are open by default making it difficult to scroll down though them. Why is there no preferences to switch this annoying feature off?
The new layout feels crammed and very poorly laid out.
Why are species such as Glossy Ibis, Rose Coloured Starling, Red Rumped Swallow and Wallcreeper again omitted?
This app is invaluable in the field but they have not ironed out the deficiencies of the previous version but compounded them.
Any decent app developer could ‘knock this one out of the ballpark’. There is so much potential here but whoever has had the greasy paws on this update has failed utterly.
Very disappointing.
All of the species sections are open by default making it difficult to scroll down though them. Why is there no preferences to switch this annoying feature off?
The new layout feels crammed and very poorly laid out.
Why are species such as Glossy Ibis, Rose Coloured Starling, Red Rumped Swallow and Wallcreeper again omitted?
This app is invaluable in the field but they have not ironed out the deficiencies of the previous version but compounded them.
Any decent app developer could ‘knock this one out of the ballpark’. There is so much potential here but whoever has had the greasy paws on this update has failed utterly.
Very disappointing.
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Crashing on iphone 4s, IOS 7.1.1
The new 2.0.0 updated is crashing. After 5 minutes I can only access text, then after another 5 minutes it freezes. Reloaded, and had the same problem. Anyone else having the same problem, or any suggestions?
Long due update
The app has gotten an updated that was long due. Many of the pictures and drawings are of better resolution now, but some (e.g. Gannet) are still horrible.
It's still impossible to search for a family of birds in a different than English language, i.e. if you want to see all Warblers (German: Grasmücken), you can't type in "Grasmücke" to get them all. That needs to be fixed.
What's even more bothering me is the fact that parts of the descriptive texts have been erased in the new version. Information about social pattern and behavior, voice, breeding, movements... is only available for a few species, whereas the old version had that information for each species! Needs to be fixed even more! Until then, only two stars.
It's still impossible to search for a family of birds in a different than English language, i.e. if you want to see all Warblers (German: Grasmücken), you can't type in "Grasmücke" to get them all. That needs to be fixed.
What's even more bothering me is the fact that parts of the descriptive texts have been erased in the new version. Information about social pattern and behavior, voice, breeding, movements... is only available for a few species, whereas the old version had that information for each species! Needs to be fixed even more! Until then, only two stars.
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Make sure you keep version 1 before you try this!
I updated this app - which has been a long term favourite of mine - to Version 2. It is simply horrid on an iPhone. Navigation is unnatural and long-winded, it’s ugly, and it makes such appalling use of the iPhone screen real estate, that finding anything takes an absolute age. It was like having an old friend beaten up and mutilated by thugs.
Luckily, I still had Version 1 in the iTunes library on my Mac, so I deleted the new version from the iPhone, and restored the old version. I heartedly recommend to anyone that they keep this escape route open, in case you have the same reaction to Version 2 as I did.
Luckily, I still had Version 1 in the iTunes library on my Mac, so I deleted the new version from the iPhone, and restored the old version. I heartedly recommend to anyone that they keep this escape route open, in case you have the same reaction to Version 2 as I did.
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Shame
This is a big improvement on the old version which I used a lot anyway. It's a shame the names are American with no acknowledgement of the different names we use in England. We call loons divers, bank swallow is a sand martin and barn swallow is just a swallow. I've always found it annoying that searches can miss out birds in a group, if you put in warbler you won't get Chiffchaff or white throat which are also warblers, same thing with finches. I suppose the comparison feature deals with that. Despite the niggles it is still a great app.
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