Audubon Bird Guide: California
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About Audubon Bird Guide: California
The best field guide for birding! Nothing beats Audubon mobile field guides! With over 1 million downloads, they are the most trusted authoritative field guide collection in California—now for FREE! The award-winning Audubon Birds of California, the go-to mobile field guide resource, has been completely updated to the latest standards. Now with bird descriptions and data from America’s premier avian expert, Kenn Kaufman. Also offers “Find Birds with eBird” powered by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology; 521 total species; advanced gallery view for easy comparison and search; field mark call outs; and NatureShare - a social community of birders who observe, identify, and share their observations and photos in the mobile app and online. Key Features: • Identify 521 species with in-depth descriptions including information on appearance, habitat, behavior, and more • Over 3,200 images from the world-renown VIREO, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University’s world-wide collection of bird photography. • Eight hours of the most exceptional, highest quality bird sounds. • Robust seasonal and migratory range maps. • Browse species in a gallery view and filter by shape, region and color, aiding quick identification. • Find Birds with eBird - the ability to locate birds seen recently around you, drawing on the continuously updated database from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and eBird. • Create a Personal Nature Account – post, keep lists, and share sightings with friends and followers on NatureShare and Facebook or via email with an easy and user-friendly interface. What People are Saying: “Now every birder can have the equivalent of a rare bird alert and comprehensive field guide wrapped into a single mobile app.” - Gary Langham, vice president and chief scientist for Audubon “Instead of the hefty field guides, the apps give the nature photographer a very portable and lightweight library of natural history information.” – Jim Clark, Outdoor Photographer Magazine AppPicker (“Best of” Lists, Jan 2013): “Audubon Birds…largely regarded as the best bird watching app…” 2011 APPY Award Finalist About us: The Audubon mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth’s biological diversity. Through its education, science and public policy initiatives, Audubon engages people throughout the U.S. and Latin America in conservation. Audubon’s Centers, and its sanctuaries and education programs are developing the next generation of conservation leaders by providing opportunities for families, students, teachers and others to learn about and enjoy the natural world. The science program is focused on connecting people with nature through projects like Audubon at Home and Great Backyard Bird Count. Audubon’s volunteer Citizen Scientists participate in research and conservation action in a variety of ways, from monitoring bird populations and restoring critical wildlife habitat to implementing healthy habitat conservation practices. Product Feature Highlights • eBird technology to locate birds in real time, with quick access to recent sightings, locations of notable and rare birds, and maps and directions to all the birding hotspots across California. • Field Mark Diagrams for over 360 images to help with field identification • Thousands of high definition images detail each species with extraordinary clarity. Includes multiple images of each species in their natural habitat by gender, age, and seasonal plumage variations • Over eight hours of audio from the best audio field naturalists in California • Track and annotate your personal sightings by location, post to the NatureShare community, and share with friends by email or Facebook. • Optimized for Amazon device compatibility.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
-NatureShare improvements
-Locations added to My Birding Locations
-Bug fixes
-NatureShare improvements
-Locations added to My Birding Locations
-Bug fixes
Version update Audubon Bird Guide: California was updated to version 4.3.23
Version update Audubon Bird Guide: California was updated to version 4.3.12
Version update Audubon Bird Guide: California was updated to version 4.3.1
More downloads Audubon Bird Guide: California reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
What are users saying about Audubon Bird Guide: California
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Lousy! Audubon should be ashamed! Constant log in problems. Why don't you fix it? Bird brains!
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Needs more depth in ID. No way to put in my area,which is Socal . Every thing comes up NY. What the hell?
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Perfecto
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Really love this app
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Using HTC Desire Eye when voice is open the icon next to each song keeps spinning so it's never possible to hear any of the voices for any bird. That's not helpful.
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Constant DV errors with Android 6 marshmallow
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This is a revision of a previous two star rating. Audubon has sourced this out to a new company and all programs are now up to date and work well and are worth the price.
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This app used to work on previous phones, but now it's out and out trash and you cannot get your money back. I would give it 0 stars if I could. Pass.
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Excellence in putting my love for birds and amateur photography at my fingertip!
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I have been using this app for years and I love it. The quality of the photos is much improved with this update. I have a great guide book, too, but this app is fabulous for songs and calls as well as photos for IDs. I have used this app on 4 different phones and haven't had any crashing issues.
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First the default location is New York. Then when I turn on location it does nothing. Then when I manually moved the cursor to report a sighting it actually posted my address, despite being unable to find my town. Edit: Removing another star because developer insists it is fixed when it's really not. Maybe work on your app instead of arguing with people on the internet?
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A good-size database but not searchable except by name. If I knew the name, I probably wouldn't need an Audubon guide to find pictures of a bird. Where are the categories? Even something simple like sea birds, fresh water birds, shore birds, inland birds. Give us something. Also, this is a California birds app but the default location was set to Vermont? When I asked to see sightings of nearby birds, it showed me California birds. This is NOT helpful. I'm willing to pay for database features. Right now it is just a picture encyclopedia and not a field spotter's guide which most birders are going to be expecting.
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Didn't work... at all... don't waste your time.
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App keeps crashing. Audubon apps do not work well on android 4.4.4
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It was good but I'm unable to use it now as it crashes upon opening.
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This app used to work on previous phones, but now it's out and out trash and you cannot get your money back. I would give it 0 stars if I could. Pass.
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Download app all I got was a photo of the book cover, would like my money back
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It was a good app for awhile. But it stopped working months ago. Cant use it at all now.
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App keeps crashing. Audubon apps do not work well on android 4.4.4
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Never had a problem on my previous phone, but since I moved to the S3 it only works for a few weeks at a time then has to be reinstalled. Not convenient when you're out in the boonies.
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its for the BIRDS CAUSE IT KEEPS CRASHING! This application constantly crashes on a brand new Samsung Note II with the latest updates applied as of 1-12-13. Very frustrating. It begins to load, then crashes and asks to send a report or cancel. I have sent several reports and wrote to support who basically stated (and I quote) "We are aware of some force close issues with the app and are working on improving them. It varies based on processor speed, type of device, memory, and storage..etc). I found this unacceptable as the app should not be sold if it won't work on the latest technology. Samsung (like Microsoft) should have a certification of some sort that it is "Samsung Compatible" or list Min Requirements, regardless. The only solution I have found is to uninstall then reinstall however its a 313 MB download and after 3 of these I've used a Gig of data. Don't get me wrong, its a great app especially the quality of birds sounds, voice activated search is tremendously advantageous (lacks GPS and the My Content section needs a lot of work) but completely useless if it constantly crashes. BirdLog and iBirdPro don't have these issues at all.
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Wouldn't be able to know since it never works. I purchased this app nearly a year ago and since then I have not been able to use it because it doesn't work. A pop up always appears saying, "unfortunately birds of California has stopped." And yes I have tried reporting this. I'm using a Galaxy Note III, have used an HTC and Galaxy III and neither phone has it worked. If there was a no star option I would have selected that. Please fix or money back.
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I have not been able to use this app in almost a year. It NEVER opens. It always has an error at startup. What a waste of money.
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It bombs every time it loads
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Please fix or refund. Uninstalled.
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Still crashes every time so I tried reinstalling. Now says unlicensed and I need to purchase. Can I have a refund?
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All the time
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The negative comments are well deserved. I have Galaxy Note 10.1 and crashes it as well. What exactly does it actually run on? If not my tablet then wh does your app load on my device? Audobon should be ashamed over such trash using thier good name!
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This app still works if I don't download the database on my Galaxy S3 but it used to work with the database downloaded. Now I have to be connected to Wi-Fi or use up data in order to see details. They will fix it, but irritating for now.
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its for the BIRDS CAUSE IT KEEPS CRASHING! This application constantly crashes on a brand new Samsung Note II with the latest updates applied as of 1-12-13. Very frustrating. It begins to load, then crashes and asks to send a report or cancel. I have sent several reports and wrote to support who basically stated (and I quote) "We are aware of some force close issues with the app and are working on improving them. It varies based on processor speed, type of device, memory, and storage..etc). I found this unacceptable as the app should not be sold if it won't work on the latest technology. Samsung (like Microsoft) should have a certification of some sort that it is "Samsung Compatible" or list Min Requirements, regardless. The only solution I have found is to uninstall then reinstall however its a 313 MB download and after 3 of these I've used a Gig of data. Don't get me wrong, its a great app especially the quality of birds sounds, voice activated search is tremendously advantageous (lacks GPS and the My Content section needs a lot of work) but completely useless if it constantly crashes. BirdLog and iBirdPro don't have these issues at all.
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It bombs every time it loads
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Please fix or refund. Uninstalled.
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Still crashes every time so I tried reinstalling. Now says unlicensed and I need to purchase. Can I have a refund?
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All the time
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The negative comments are well deserved. I have Galaxy Note 10.1 and crashes it as well. What exactly does it actually run on? If not my tablet then wh does your app load on my device? Audobon should be ashamed over such trash using thier good name!
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This app still works if I don't download the database on my Galaxy S3 but it used to work with the database downloaded. Now I have to be connected to Wi-Fi or use up data in order to see details. They will fix it, but irritating for now.
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Excellentt app but.... its for the BIRDS CAUSE IT KEEPS CRASHING! This application constantly crashes on a brand new Samsung Note II with the latest updates applied as of 1-12-13. Very frustrating. It begins to load, then crashes and asks to send a report or cancel. I have sent several reports and wrote to support who basically stated (and I quote) "We are aware of some force close issues with the app and are working on improving them. It varies based on processor speed, type of device, memory, and storage..etc). I found this unacceptable as the app should not be sold if it won't work on the latest technology. Samsung (like Microsoft) should have a certification of some sort that it is "Samsung Compatible" or list Min Requirements, regardless. The only solution I have found is to uninstall then reinstall however its a 313 MB download and after 3 of these I've used a Gig of data. Don't get me wrong, its a great app especially the quality of birds sounds, voice activated search is tremendously advantageous (lacks GPS and the My Content section needs a lot of work) but completely useless if it constantly crashes. BirdLog and iBirdPro don't have these issues at all.
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Constant DV errors with Android 6 marshmallow and 7 Nougat.