Birds of Europe - Field Guide [iPhone]

Professional Field Guide (Bird Identifier) for 515 bird species inhabiting Europe - from the Atlantic Ocean to the Urals, and from the Arctic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.

- BIRDS IDENTIFIER

The application has a built-in polytomic Bird Identifier (Identification Filter), which helps to determine the unknown bird by 24 different features. You can select the region of Europe, the size of the bird, plumage coloration, streaks, beak and feet shape and color, distinctive features of appearance, behavior, habitats, location of a sitting bird, song and calls, daily activity, nest size, shape, construction material and location, eggs size and color. The Identifier will help you to narrow down the range of species for unknown bird.

- TERRITORY OF USE

The application covers most of the territory of Europe and can be successfully used in the most part of Northern, Western, Central, Southern and Eastern Europe, including Scandinavia, Baltic States, France, Spain, Balkan countries, Transcaucasia, Northern Kazakhstan and other adjacent territories.

- EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

The app is composed on 20 European languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Hellenic and others. The user can choose any of these languages.

- BIRDS CALLS

For each of 515 bird species, the app provides one combined recording, including male songs and several most typical calls – alarm, aggression, interaction, contact and flight calls, etc. Each of the recordings can be played in four different ways: 1) once, 2) in a loop without interval, 3) in a loop with an interval of 10 seconds, 4) in a loop with an interval of 20 seconds.

- PHOTOS AND DESCRIPTIONS

For each species, a several photos of the bird in nature (male, female or immature, bird in flight), distribution maps and eggs are given, as well as a text description of the appearance, behavior, features of reproduction and feeding, distribution and migrations.

- IN-APP PURCHASES

The main functions of the application are free - for each species of bird, you can view its image and text description and add species to Favorites (these functions are available offline), as well as play a recording of its voice (if you have an Internet connection and no more than 1 time per minute). Paid functions allow unlimited use of the Identification Filter and Quiz, open access to additional color images, and also make it possible to play all recordings of bird voices offline.

- THE VOICES OF BIRDS CAN BE PLAYED IN NATURE!

In the presence of the Internet, the voices of birds can be played directly in nature. After paying for in-app purchases, all functions can be used offline, including in the areas without the Internet - on ornithological excursions, walks in the country, on expeditions, hunting or fishing.

THE APPLICATION IS DESIGNED FOR:

• birdwatchers and professional ornithologists;
• university students and faculty at on-site seminars;
• teachers of secondary schools and additional (out-of school) education;
• forestry workers and hunters;
• employees of nature reserves, national parks and other nature protected areas;
• songbird lovers;
• tourists, campers and nature guides;
• parents with their children and summer residents;
• all other nature lovers.