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Bird Song Id USA songs & calls

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User Reviews for Bird Song Id USA songs & calls

2
Recorder is useless

I bought this to identify my backyard birds from their songs, and for that purpose this app is a complete waste of money; it has yet to accurately identify a single bird song from my recordings. The app complains that the quality of my recordings is poor and it seems unless the bird is singing directly into your phone this will be the case, because even if it’s just the one bird singing fairly loudly and no other background noise, my recording is still not good enough. There is no way to edit your recording to cut out extra birds, and even their own recorded examples will sometimes have extraneous birds chiming in so you don’t know what you’re supposed to be hearing. The manual ID feature is a joke; I’ve gotten wide-ranging suggestions from owl to heron to sparrow for a single entry. I don’t know how they come up with their percentage accuracy but these too are a joke because they are wildly inaccurate. I also know that some birds have multiple calls/songs but the app does not give more than one of each. Don’t waste your money on this one.

Clark02176, May 19, 2020
5
Most incredible bird ID app ever

I really enjoy birdwatching and this app is the only app I am aware of that will record and identify bird calls and songs. It is truly incredible. Several birds in my backyard have been elusive with their calls, and this app help me not only identify them but archived the recording for future playback. I also discovered the birds in my backyard love to hear birds of their kind calling, it is so fun to play bird calls back on a loop in the app and watch the birds in my backyard flit around in excitement as they hear the bird calls from the app. 10 out of 10!

clevelandrunner@, Apr 02, 2017
1
Missed distinctive Whip-poor-will

I have tried this app for several weeks, and it has successfully identified a bird only once. I live in the woods with little background noise, so recording bird song is fairly easy to do. Identification using this app is not. Last night, I recorded a single bird sound from a short distance. I knew it was a whippoorwill, but the app didn’t, even though the recording was strong. Turns out, the distinctive whippoorwill is not in its database. Why does my database list only 183 bird sounds, not the 240+ advertised?I thought the app would save my recordings, so I could replay them later for friends, but “my recordings” is empty. Why?The app is not user-friendly at all, but I hope the developers answer my questions so I can get more enjoyment from their app.

Forest Spring, May 11, 2019
1
A real disapointment

I’ve used this app off and on for over 6 months and I’d guess 65% of my recordings come back as poor quality even though the bird is singing in the tree next to me. Maybe an auxillary mic would help. But when I get a good recording, which is about 1/3 of the time, it has never correctly identified the bird. I mean never as in not even once. This week I play some simple bird songs (the Easter Phoebe for example) from Merlin (another app) and this app couldn’t identify even perfectly recorded bird songs. My only advice is if you use it, and you don’t know your birdsongs, don’t trust this app to help you. You’d be better off taking the results and using them to eliminate what bird you heard. And FWIW, I’ve never rated an app 1 star before. As I said, this is a real disapointment.

Greybeard in VA, Jun 03, 2019
4
Almost

I like this a lot, but find navigation difficult. There are many times when there's too much other noise to get a clear recording, and the manual look up is cumbersome. Organization by families is not useful for many (probably most) of us. This morning I heard three fledglings with a call that was new to me. My best guess was they were cowbirds. They were gone before I could record. I opened the app- which is organized by bird family and I had no idea what the cowbird family is. No search function on the first page, but an index. So I tried the index, only to find it too is organized by family rather than name- not useful at all!! I started to dig through and finally found the cowbird under Icterid. Too much work!!Only later did I figure out that I had to go through a family to find the Search function. Please either put the search function on the 1st page, or organize the index by name. Re-do this and I'm change my rating to 5 stars. And yes, they were cowbirds. What a curious call!!

Haydngoseek, May 12, 2017
5
Very useful and accurate!

I love this app. As a amateur birder, it’s really helped me learn, discover and enjoy birds. It's made it much easier for me to get that practice in through the automatic recognition feature and by organizing songs into useful groups. Th app contains basic information for each species and beautiful, high-quality pictures. It also includes one song example and call notes per species. The app also really engaging and really goes the extra mile to help you identify birds more easily. I really enjoy how it turns practice sessions into fun quizzes. especially love the way the game plays the song and shows you multiple choice answers while also giving you an option to get a hint for the song. The game also gives you a sense of achievement by tracking your score and comparing it with other users so you can check on your progress. Love it and really recommend it!

Laureline111, Mar 27, 2017
1
Ineffective

I got this app because I was trying hard to identify a bird that I keep hearing a unique call sound for but can never see the bird. I find this app rather picky about the quality length and loudness of the recording made. I did not have trouble finding the record button like some have complained about. But I have made sample after sample of the bird song and I keep getting warnings about too short, poor sound quality, not loud enough, and then when I think I got one that matches their picky criteria it comes up with a list of birds that have no resemblance to what I recorded. The UI/UX is clunky and strange at best. Sometimes the play button has no stop button, and sometimes it does. There’s no way to edit the length of the song sample to eliminate other birds that are chiming in. After you have it analyzed the song it gives you a list of bird choices. If you pick one to listen to their recording of it and decide that’s not the one... if you go back, your choices are add it to the library or you can listen to your recording again but you can’t analyze it and get your list back it appears. If you close this window because you’re not ready to add it since you didn’t find the bird, it will toss your recording. lt’s just a wacky app and a waste of five dollars. I wished I could get my five dollars back as it couldn’t even ID one bird call.

The Teaman, Jul 13, 2018
1
Nope

This App purports to be Bird Song ID, yet that feature is buried after several screen taps under My Recordings. Even when you tap "My Recordings," nothing is obvious about what to do next. So you fumble around finding Add Recording. Finally you see a tab that says Automatic Recognition. It is simply not Field Friendly. "Automatic Recognition" should be the first thing you see when you open up the app...a big button to hit like Shazam. When you hear a bird you can't identify, it does not give you the time to 1. Get the phone out, 2. Find the app on your phone, 3. Then wade through screens until you find the hidden buttons to do what you need. By that time, the bird has flown. There are other inexplicable aspects of the App: Bird Families. Here's what I see on the first screen, stuff like Cardinal (not a bird family), Chickadee (not a bird family), Chachalaca (really? on the first screen? What are my chances of happening across a Chachalaca?) Good idea, but ill-conceived. Developers should make the primary function of this App "Auto Recognition" then put a large button in the middle of the screen that starts that process with a single tap.

vorticity, Apr 27, 2017
5
YES!

I read some reviews before purchasing that made me skeptical of the abilities that this app would have. However, they were completely off!! This app is a genuine pleasure to use. I mostly enjoy it because it's convenient and extremely helpful. The quiz function is probably a favorite because I love learning new things by being quizzed! It identifies the birds the birds that I hear very rapidly as well! Learning bird sounds is probably the single most important skill in moving from beginning birding to intermediate birding . This app is worth all the money in the world and I was more than glad to pay just $5.

vpryya, Mar 28, 2017
1
Not an accurate app whatsoever.

I had high hopes when I got this app, but I was greatly disappointed when I realized the app was essentially just guessing the most common birds around me. To test this, I played a variety of different bird calls from another phone and had this app try to identify them; sure enough, it just kept suggesting common birds like the cardinal, goldfinch, and robin. I suppose the app is probably right some of the time, given how common those birds are... but it’s purely because of luck.I will say though, at least you can play the bird calls on this app to check if it sounds the same. (Though the answer is usually no.) That’s the only thing saving this review from being 1-Star.I wasted money on this app. If you’re an aspiring birder, it seems there is still no great method to identify bird calls other than just looking up possible candidates the slow way.

walcman, Jul 03, 2018

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--> SALE: 50% off! Instead of 9.99 just 4.99 US$! ****** Identify birds of the USA by their songs and calls! Automatic Recognition will help identify birds around you.

Includes an audio reference library of 241 songs and calls. *** Top of its class, Bird Watching Magazine rated it 9 out of 10 saying it is remarkably accurate. *** Copied by a few, bettered by none, Bird Song Id is three years ahead of anyone else in this field ! *** Look at the many good reviews compared to similar apps claiming to achieve bird song recognition! *** 'Scientific American' writes: "It's Shazam for birdsong. Record a bird's warble—the cleaner the recording, the better the luck you'll have—and let the app tell you what species you're hearing!" *** Developed by automatic recognition experts in collaboration with published biologists. *** 'The Times Newspaper' said the app "Does what it says on the tin" and were amazed that "this astonishing piece of software costs about the same as a cup of coffee". *** Watch the film: vimeo.com/isoperla/birdsongid The most functional Bird Song app on the market by far. Make your own bird song recordings and keep a bird song diary. Have you ever heard a bird singing and wondered "What kind of bird is that?". Bird Song Id is a great tool to help you learn to quickly and easily identify birds by their songs and calls. It's great fun to use too. With Bird Song Id, identification can be enjoyed by the whole family. Bird Song Id has been created by professional published ecologists. The app does not need an internet connection, all songs and calls are downloaded when the app is purchased, one hundred and eighteen species are included. We have included an early version of Automatic Recognition in the app for you to try. We hope this feature will help you identify common bird species. However, it needs a good quality recording to work, and takes a bit of time and patience to get used to. Automatic Recognition takes place on the device, no connection to the internet or mobile network is needed. How successful is it? Our aim is to get the correct bird in the top three of those listed. In our testing of over 1,000 samples we found the success rate to be 85%. Remember this is an early release of this innovative feature, so please be gentle. A demo is available on YouTube. --------------- HELP ---------------- Automatic Recognition needs a good quality recording of the bird ------------- Remove the case from your iPhone if you use one as this will significantly dampen the microphone ------------- Only record when it is very quiet, apart from the bird singing of course ------------- Be close to the bird singing, as close as you can be without disturbing it ------------- Only record when a single bird is singing, or when a single bird is dominant ------------- The analysis graph should have plenty of blue and green colors with few or no black peaks ------------- Be patient, dont expect miracles, the system works but needs good clear recordings ------------- The peaks on the graph should reach all the way to the top. Low peaks indicate poor quality and recognition is unlikely ------------- A difference between two birds of less than 10% is not that significant, so listen to the samples from both to help you further ------------- The microphone is at the bottom of an iPhone, point the bottom of the phone towards the bird ------------- Record a single bird at a time ------------- Record for the full 30 seconds ------------- Avoid windy conditions. Air moving over the microphone will mask the bird sounds ------------- Playing songs to the app from recorded material on the internet, other apps or CDs is unlikely to work as this material is digitally processed and edited (inter phase gaps are often shortened). They sound very different to recording birds for real on an iPhone or iPad in the natural environment. -------------

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