Could not recognize birds
Doesn’t work. Had perfectly clear sound to record. Suggested few birds with sound not even close.
3.88 out of 5
16 ratings in Canada
Doesn’t work. Had perfectly clear sound to record. Suggested few birds with sound not even close.
I purchased this app hoping that it would help me and my wife to identify the birds that we commonly hear from our window. We live in Eastern Canada and the app failed to recognize most calls and songs. Navigating through the bird lists proved unnecessarily cumbersome, and the bird families groupings are not complete enough to be useful. Also, many recordings are either missing, or are too quiet to be of much use. In the end, I choose to delete this app despite having paid for it because it isn’t useful enough to justify the large quantity of storage space (>270MB) that it consumes.
I like the app in theory. I haven’t used it enough to really rate it effectively. The one problem I’ve had is getting clear recordings. Years ago I got a parabolic reflector and recorded songs with a camcorder. The problem was matching the recordings with typical published bird songs. I am upgrading to a microphone designed for use with iPhone. If it works with the parabolic reflector and app it should solve both problems. Keeping my fingers crossed.
If you are an ultra amature looking for backyard birds, this mightbe adequate, but it is very poor at recognizing anything remotely unusual. It requires a 30 second recording clip to properly analyze a song. How many birds sing continuously for 30 seconds?? I am afraid I classify this as a total waste of money. We took it on a trip to birding central ie Point Pelee - and it failed completely to recognize anything but a robin, and even that was an uncertain result. It needs to recognize very short songs and recordings to be useful. I couldn't even get it to recognize simple songs from the Cornell site played from my computer.
Pretty disappointing. 20 feet away from a loud woodpecker and this app could not identify this bird. I have been unsuccessful at identifying any bird in sight with this app. Need substantial improvement to justify the price.
The app is fun
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