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Index of Subjects --bcaec53fed4564d9cf04a9869421 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi, There are indeed several apps related to nature and birding for the iPhone. There are several versions of the iBird app that Mary mentions, but I personally prefer the Sibley app, for visual and aural ID, mainly because I find his illustrations helpful and more useful than iBird, and the vocalizations are just as good, if not better. It's like having a complete Sibley field guide in the pocket complete with calls and songs you can hear. There are also some bird listing apps available - I just got one called My Bird Observatons, for $2.99, and I used it on Brier Island this weekend. It's easy to remember the rarities or "special" birds, but where this sort of app is useful is , e.g. when submitting a list to eBird, or NS Birds, etc., I find it easier to list common things like Crows and Herring gulls at the time, as I tend to forget how many I have seen by later in the day. Of course all this stuff is great as long as the electronics work, and one could argue that a paper and pencil does the same job, but personally I have taken to these iPhone apps (and I have many others, including Kindle, on which I can read almost any book, Pocket Universe, which is great for the night sky, Weather Eye, which gives me the forecast, etc. etc.). I believe all these are also available for the Android system as well. Richard On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Mary Macaulay <marymacaulay@hotmail.com>wrote: > Have just recently acquired an iphone and it is a wonderful tool! Photos > taken have the gps location built in. There is a voice recorder. And now, > no more need for compass and gps - I can see exactly where I am using the > satellite mapping tool and even drop pins down for places where I find or > hear interesting things. I often heard an absolutely beautiful bird at a > spot along a path that cuts through the crown land south of Angevine. I was > able to record it with my iphone, drop a pin on the satellite map, and then > compare the call to the bird songs on the iBird Canada app. A Hermit > thrush. Further on I stepped off the path and headed straight for an area > I've been wanting to find for years that could see on the google sattelite > maps. With this iphone I was able to get there and cross to it over the only > dry path (it is an island in a marsh). What a wonderful new (to me) tool > for naturalists! > > Angevine Lake, Cumberland County > -- ################# Richard Stern, 317 Middle Dyke Rd. Port Williams, NS, Canada B0P 1T0 sternrichard@gmail.com ################### --bcaec53fed4564d9cf04a9869421 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi,<br><br>There are indeed several apps related to nature and birding for = the iPhone. There are several versions of the iBird app that Mary mentions,= but I personally prefer the Sibley app, for visual and aural ID, mainly be= cause I find his illustrations helpful and more useful than iBird, and the = vocalizations are just as good, if not better. It's like having a compl= ete Sibley field guide in the pocket complete with calls and songs you can = hear.<br> <br>There are also some bird listing apps available - I just got one called= My Bird Observatons, for $2.99, and I used it on Brier Island this weekend= . It's easy to remember the rarities or "special" birds, but = where this sort of app is useful is , e.g. when submitting a list to eBird,= or NS Birds, etc., I find it easier to list common things like Crows and H= erring gulls at the time, as I tend to forget how many I have seen by later= in the day.<br> <br>Of course all this stuff is great as long as the electronics work, and = one could argue that a paper and pencil does the same job, but personally I= have taken to these iPhone apps (and I have many others, including Kindle,= on which I can read almost any book, Pocket Universe, which is great for t= he night sky, Weather Eye, which gives me the forecast, etc. etc.). I belie= ve all these are also available for the Android system as well.<br> <br>Richard<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:48 = AM, Mary Macaulay <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:marymacaulay@hotm= ail.com">marymacaulay@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote clas= s=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;pad= ding-left:1ex;"> <div><div dir=3D"ltr"> Have just recently acquired an iphone and it is a wonderful tool!=A0 Photos= taken have the gps location built in.=A0 There is a voice recorder.=A0 And= now, no more need for compass and gps - I can see exactly where I am using= the satellite mapping tool and even drop pins down for places where I find= or hear interesting things.=A0 I often heard an absolutely beautiful bird = at a spot along a path that cuts through the crown land south of Angevine.= =A0 I was able to record it with my iphone, drop a pin on the satellite map= ,=A0and then compare=A0the call=A0to the bird songs on the iBird Canada app= .=A0 A Hermit thrush.=A0 Further on I stepped off the path and headed strai= ght for an area I've been wanting to find for years that=A0 could see o= n the google sattelite maps. With this iphone I was able to get there and c= ross to it over the only dry path (it is an island in a marsh).=A0 What a w= onderful new (to me) tool for naturalists!<br> =A0<br>Angevine Lake, Cumberland County<br> </div></div> </blockquote></div><br><br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br>#################<br>Ri= chard Stern, <br>317 Middle Dyke Rd.<br>Port Williams, NS, Canada<br>B0P 1T= 0<br><br><a href=3D"mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com">sternrichard@gmail.com</= a><br> ###################<br> --bcaec53fed4564d9cf04a9869421--
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