Birds of Peru

Excellent app. Uses the same images, range maps and text as the book (with updates). We took both book and app on a tour but didn’t use the book at all. Obviously the addition of the songs and calls for most species is a huge bonus. Also has a listing facility which you can use to record the species already seen.

Really useful to help identify birds especially as our guide only knew the calls of the birds - we could use the app to work out species using the calls and then the pictures.

We took the book and the app. App really useful in the field to check what a species looked like when you were trying to find it. It meant you did not need to carry the book.

Brilliant to have on trip to Peru. The book is so big and heavy it isn't practical to take but this is just great

This is a must have app for anyone birding in Peru. Based on the very good, but slightly heavy, field guide. The information is that presented in the book with some taxonomic updates and new information (I hope they continue to update as it is not yet completely up to date). It also includes sounds which is a nice addition. A list function allows you to tally the species seen.

It's just a scanned copy of the paper book, without that much reorganization for an App. It's slow and crashes often on either iPad or iPhone XR.

Some species don’t have range maps or sound recordings. Other than that, it’s really good!

This is going to be such a big help! Now the book can stay in the backpack most of the time, rather than clutched in one hand awkwardly as you hold your binoculars. But by far the great thing is the sound recordings! So often they clinch the diagnosis.

Now I no longer have to carry the heavy book and it’s very easy to use. However, it will be complete if it had a place where to write down notes where one can store information.

After looking at other reviews I am wondering oh I have the same app! There are not enough illustrations. Every time I want to look up a family the search function I can’t see all the members because the keyboard blocks the bottom of the page. Cancelling the search takes me back to the beginning and I have to scroll through the whole darn list. The life list function does not record date or location. I thought I was supposed to be able to use this and it would share my information with eBird. So now I have to keep a paper list. Only benefit is reduction in weight from not carrying the book.