Audubon Birds app review

Audubon Birds

Price: $14.99 (as of 3/5/13, marked down to $2.99)

Audubon Birds by Green Mountain Digital is your pocket field guide to the world of birds and is currently on sale.

Spring is here and the birds are all migrating back to their usual locations and now is a great time to get out and study them. Using Audubon Birds you will be able identify the species you see and learn about their migratory patterns and other interesting facts.

This app is packed with more than 820 different species listings of birds complete with in-depth descriptions and photographs. There are also more than 3200 images included with this app which means you get to see the different species of birds in multiple settings helping you to clearly identify them.

Another treat is the audio that is included with Audubon Birds. There are more than eight hours of recorded bird calls that you can listen to. You can also use the migratory maps to track the birds on their seasonal journeys. When searching for specific birds you can use the search engine and filter the results by shape, color, and region to quickly narrow down the results.

Audubon Birds was last updated to Version 3.1 on January 18, 2013 and included optimizations and small corrections. There have been 256 ratings for this app with an average rating of 4.5 out of five stars.

I really enjoyed browsing the image galleries and reading about the different species of birds. This app has a lot of great information and is a beneficial resource for the hobbyist bird watcher.

For: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad with iOS 4.3 or later. Audubon Birds is optimized for iPhone 5.