Audubon Bird Guide vs Birdgram US

The Audubon Bird Guide is a free and complete field guide to over 800 species of North American birds, right in your pocket. Built for all experience levels, it will help you identify the birds around you, keep track of the birds you’ve seen, and get outside to find new birds near you. With over 2 million downloads to date, it is one of the best and most trusted field guides for North American birds. KEY FEATURES: ALL-NEW: BIRD ID It's now easier than ever to identify a bird you just saw. Enter all you were able to observe—what color was it? How big? What did its tail look like?—and Bird ID will narrow down a list of possible matches for your location and date in real time. LEARN ABOUT THE BIRDS YOU LOVE Our field guide features over 3,000 photos, over eight hours of audio clips of songs and calls, multi-season range maps, and in-depth text by leading North American bird expert Kenn Kaufman. KEEP TRACK OF ALL THE BIRDS YOU SEE With our completely redesigned Sightings feature, you can keep a record of every bird you encounter, whether you're hiking, sitting on the porch, or simply catching a glimpse of birds out the window. We'll even keep an updated life list for you. EXPLORE THE BIRDS AROUND YOU See where the birds are with nearby birding hotspots and real-time sightings from eBird. SHARE PHOTOS Post your photos to the Photo Feed so other Audubon Bird Guide users can see your best bird shots. GET INVOLVED WITH AUDUBON Keep up with the latest news from the world of birds, science, and conservation. Find an Audubon location near you to go birding. Or see where your voice is needed and take action to protect birds and the places they need, right from your app. Have any questions or need help? Contact us at audubonconnect@audubon.org About Audubon: The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation. Audubon’s state programs, nature centers, chapters, and partners have an unparalleled wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to inform, inspire, and unite diverse communities in conservation action. Since 1905, Audubon’s vision has been a world in which people and wildlife thrive.

Explore the rich world of bird sound around you! Birdgram is an audio field guide in your pocket. The US version includes 770 species and over 45,000 recordings across all 50 states. This expansive dataset is made possible by the incredible collection at xeno-canto.org, which is dedicated to open access and data sharing using Creative Commons licensing. App features: • Browse ~50–200 recordings for each species. Way more than other apps! • Record a bird using your phone and then search for it! Which species do you think it might be? The app will show you xeno-canto recordings similar to your recording to help you figure it out. • Visually "see" every sound in the app as a spectrogram, an intuitive visual representation of the sound's shape over time. • Places: add your current region or hotspot as a "place" to restrict results to just the birds near you. This rules out far-away species to help you discover your local birds. • Offline: never get stuck when you're deep in the woods with poor reception, because Birdgram works fully offline! (Adding new places requires internet connection, but everything else works fully offline.) Coming soon: • More countries! xeno-canto.org recordings cover nearly all species in the world (check out their website), and Birdgram is designed to work in any country, with any species. • Simplified design! The initial release of Birdgram is a scientific instrument: many knobs and not yet intuitive. In a future release I will streamline the user experience so that it's more accessible to non-experts and more intuitive for everyone. Birdgram is free and open source: • https://github.com/jdanbrown/birdgram • Please get in touch if you'd like to contribute!