User blog:StaraptorEmpoleon/Audobon Birds app


 * Title: Audubon Birds - A Field Guide to North American Birds
 * Authors: ??
 * Publisher: Green Mountain Digital
 * Publication date: 2010
 * Format: App
 * Page count: N/A
 * ISBN: N/A

This is a great app by Audubon. When it first loads, a beautiful Snowy Egret pops up. I have this app on my Nook, though I wish you didn't need wifi to load the pictures.

There are seven options on the "front page". The browse by shape option is pretty cool! Some examples are Hummingbirds, Owls, Tree-clinging birds, and Duck-like birds.

The glossary and "encyclopedia" is nice! I quite enjoy it...

Pros
 * Quick reference
 * You can add your bird sightings to it
 * A few taxonomic mistakes, but doesn't effect the quality
 * Nice glossary
 * Describes the birds well

Cons
 * You need wifi in order to access pictures and such

Rating Beautiful pictures of birds...
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Amazing descriptions of birds. Short and to the point. Includes nesting behaviour as well.
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Glossary is amazing.
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App has errors, but it doesn't effect the overall app.
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The overall length is excellent.
 * Length: Star_full.svg Star_full.svg Star_full.svg Star_full.svg Star_full.svg Star_full.svg Star_full.svg Star_full.svg (8)

Range maps are nice.
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Though the birds aren't in TiF order, this app has caught up to Wikipedian standards. Wrentit is in Paradoxornithidae; Bananaquit is in Thraupidae. Pelecaniformes only includes the pelicans while tropicbirds are in Phaethontiformes and are closer to pigeons/doves than to pelicans; cormorants, darters, frigatebirds, boobies and gannets are in Suliformes. If they had put tropicbirds in their own order, this would be 8 stars.
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 * Overall: Star_full.svg Star_full.svg Star_full.svg Star_full.svg Star_full.svg Star_full.svg Star_full.svg Star_full.svg.357 (8.357)