Learn Bird Watching—Larkwire

Name: Learn Bird Watching—Larkwire
Rating: 4.8072 (861 reviews)

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Learn Bird Watching—Larkwire

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User Reviews for Learn Bird Watching—Larkwire

Sweet!

In the words of the Yellow Warbler, this app is sweet sweet sweet sweet so-so-so sweet!!!I don’t usually pay more than .99 cents for an app, but I took a chance on this one: and it turned out to be probably the best app purchase I’ve ever made! With the help of this app, I have made the plunge into birding by ear, and it has truly changed me from a casual birder to a serious one. I love that each bird has multiple recordings, which prevents me from memorizing a specific recording rather than the pattern of the song. I love that it is not intimidating to a beginner like me, but is also useful to the seasoned veteran.One feature which I would like to be added is a search bar in the section where you choose which birds to feature in your next game. Sometimes it’s difficult to find a specific species. I wish I could just type in “wrentit” rather than searching through every group and eventually finding it in “sparrows 6”.

*IndigoPhoenix*, Jun 16, 2018

A good tool for learning bird songs

First: the support for this app is excellent. I was unable to get the product to work at first. The developer worked with me over a period of days to resolve it. I had to uninstall and reinstall the app to get the purchase to load. I don’t know why that happened, but the support was patient and dedicated to solving my problem. I’ve used it a few times now and – now that I have the proper packet loaded – I am quite pleased with it. It’s not perfect, but is very, very good. And honestly, the tech support alone would be enough to make me recommend it. The product has good quality recordings and good photos. The game set up makes it a little more fun and rewarding to push through. The songs are grouped by quality of sound, allowing you to compare similar songs that can tricky to differentiate. This is one of the best aspects. If you’ve ever switched between taxa to compare the songs of a Chipping Sparrow and a Pine Warbler and later thought, “but wait! That’s a lot like the Dark-eyed Junco!” Then you know why this is helpful! It can get a little tedious and repetitive, but that does get the job done. I’ve only been using it for a few days now, but I’m leaning what I wanted to learn.

Birdcall2, May 03, 2022

Sharpen Your Birding Ear

Every year I struggle with identifying uncommonly heard spring migrants. Many bird song apps are limited to common birds and aren’t much help if you are an intermediate (or above) birder. In addition to covering all the regional birdsongs (with several song variants for many species), this app allows you to specify playlists of species or groups. Being able to focus on “problem” songs has been enormously helpful to me.The only feature that the app lacks is the ability to display spectrograms. Visualizing sound with spectrograms can be especially useful in demonstrating differences in similar-sounding songs (and hopefully committing them to memory).Otherwise, this is a nearly perfect app for beginning to advanced birders wishing to improve their birding-by-ear skills. Highly recommended!

c5nest, May 09, 2021

Great tool

It takes years to develop birding by ear skills in the field. You have to be able to spot the bird while it’s vocalizing and most birds have multiple calls and songs. This app is a wonderful learning tool. You can allow the game to choose birds for you or you can set any particular bird or group of birds you want from one of their lists or make your own, or just sit and study by listening to the sounds while you see the bird. You can adjust the level of difficulty. I have tried apps which claim to ID bird sounds for you in the field using the mic on your phone. Sounds great but I haven’t found one which actually works reliably. You will have to put in the effort and Larkwire gives you a chance to do that and will give you a big “leg up” out there.

jimmyfritz, Feb 09, 2021

Worth the price

I still use my free fields guide apps for when I see birds, but this app has absolutely changed my feeling of well being in the woods. It's like overhearing a conversation in a language you know while in a foreign country! The progression of difficulty makes it fun and easy to get started. Definitely check out the settings, too, as there may be a pack that's applicable to you that won't be turned in by default. You can start with song type or habitat type! You can customize playlists! It gives tips all along rather than a tutorial you'll never see again! This app is all good things, and funds go to both improving the app and conservation, it's a win win win!

NikoGreenwood, Apr 17, 2018

The Best Way to Learn Bird Songs

I was really struggling to distinguish bird songs in my yard, and just listening to the bird songs on other apps didn’t seem to help. Larkwire allows you to start with very simple quizzes and work your way up. Learning bird songs is hard, and requires daily practice, but Larkwire makes it fun. It is very customizable, so you can create collections of specific birds. The first thing I did was create a group of the most common birds in my yard, then another of the most common birds at my favorite birding site. It’s starting to pay off. I am starting to recognize some songs—Cardinals, Robins, Red-Wing Blackbirds, Yellow Warblers, Common Yellow Throat, and several others now come to me easily. It’s great when I’m outdoors and I hear a birdsong or call and identify it, and know that the time I put in playing with this app is making a difference.

Ohio paddler, Jun 21, 2019

Fantastic

This app has always been an incredible learning tool. It has helped me go from knowing a handful of backyard songs to being able to recognize most of the calls here in SW PA. In the past my only complaint would have been the dated user interface, but the recent update has addressed that well, and added something I always quietly wished for - the ability to read a song’s tips in the game where you guess the call without any choices. Thanks to the developer of this great app, it has really helped me achieve the goal of birdsong identification far faster (and probably better) than any other approach.

polkadotninja12345, Jul 17, 2020

Makes every birding venture more enjoyable

I have struggled for a bit with bird song, and this app definitely helped more than I would’ve ever thought. I purchased it late one night as an impulse buy after seeing it recommend on a blog, and I absolutely love what it’s done for me and how different birding actually is when you can recognize calls. Even if all you learn is the most basic and common local birds calls, you have this entirely different element to birding, and you’ll notice more birds when you are out and about more than you ever did before. The app is easy to use, gives you two different game modes, tons of birds, progressively more difficult levels, and offers a written description of each birds call for those who paid words better with birds than they do just sounds on their own to a bird. There’s nothing more satisfying than confirming a bird based on call. Best thing I’ve ever bought on the App Store. Thanks to the developers for such a wonderful app.

Shopetastic, Apr 16, 2020

Exactly what I was looking for!

I wanted to find a way to learn bird calls and songs that would work similarly to Dulingo. This app is exactly that, and will feel very familiar to anybody who has used Dulingo before. Learning bird songs is similar to learning a foreign language, and takes about the same amount of effort. This app lets me put in 10 minutes here, 20 minutes there, day after day, while saving my progress. After just a couple of weeks using this program, my birding has improved markedly, and walking in the woods is a whole different experience from before. The change is like the difference between traveling in a foreign city where you don’t speak any of the language, and being in one with a language you understand. I never knew how much I was missing out on by not knowing my bird calls until I started using this app. I cannot recommend Larkwire highly enough.

Superduperdo, Jun 16, 2018

Great to start, now just frustrating

If you are interested in just learning bird songs as a whole this is an AMAZING app! I love quizzing myself, and have recommended this to others in the past. Lately though I’ve just been super frustrated with their customized lists. I’m trying to brush up for field season where I collect breeding bird data and yet when I make a customized list of species that I know I will encounter, it only ever seems to quiz me on the same 8-10 species. Never any warblers, rarely what I need to work on, and no amount of adjusting playlists or settings seems to fix this. Considering the whole draw was the ability to tailor my study sessions I’m afraid I’ve been pretty let down, and for that reason only 3 stars.

TessR92, May 23, 2019

Description

BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA Learn birds the fun way! Learn to identify the birds that you're seeing and hearing. Take birding and birdwatching to a new level!

Larkwire is a complete, game-based system for learning. Great for beginners and still challenging for advanced birders. Audio courses teach you to identify bird sounds and visual courses teach plumage. All courses are created by world class experts in field identification. This is the app used by professionals to master birding by ear. ***** "Best thing I’ve ever bought on the App Store." (Shopetastic review, 04/16/2020) ***** "Uniformly excellent" (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) ***** "A Rosetta Stone for birdsong." (Birding Magazine) ***** "This is a really cool tool!" (BirdChick) ***** "Really fun!" (Wildlife South) ********************************************** "Larkwire is already helping immensely with my ability to bird in the field. And my 7-year-old daughter is asking for 'that bird song game on the computer.'—I guess you have THREE of us hooked!" (Courtenay Schurman, Mountaineering Trainer) ********************************************** ********************************************** "It's like having a personal teacher who can pinpoint my weaknesses and make me work on them as I play. By far the best value for your money when you think about buying an avian audio guide." (Alain Clavette, aka @Acadian_Birder) ********************************************** ********************************************** "A fantastic tool for learning and reviewing birdsong. ... What I can vouch for, as a teacher, is the solid learning theory behind the software—this program is sure to improve the speed and accuracy with which you identify birds by ear." (David Pugh, Calgary Birder) ********************************************** SUPPORT For questions or support, email: [email protected] EULA - Apple standard End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/