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Written by Gwendolen Tee   
Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Dentify Europese Vogels 
Birdguides, 2009
for digital audio player: MP3/MP4, iPod
www.birdguides.com/iDentify

 

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I met Fiona Barclay of BirdGuides on Twitter a little while ago. I’d seen the lovely software they sell for iPhone and iPods and I wondered if BirdGuides had any plans to publish in other languages. So I sent Fiona a Tweet asking about the iDentify Field Guide and a few weeks later I was pleasantly surprised, when she asked me to test the beta release of iDentify Europese Vogels; the Dutch version of iDentify European Birds.

Having a digital field guide is a great help to a newbie bird watcher like myself. Spotting birds in the Netherlands is a lot trickier than spotting and correctly ID-ing birds like ostrich, emu and Southern Cassowary. (Okay, the Southern Cassowary was only half wild, I ticked it in a reserve in Queensland – from a safe distance)

iDentify’s digital field guide isn’t just a great tool for newbies, the more experienced twitcher will also like the software. And not only because bird watching with your iPhone or iPod Touch makes you look ubercool. The field guide is a complete library with illustrations and bird songs.

The guide covers 515 of the species occuring in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. All the files (1493) are labelled which makes it easy to quickly look up a bird. You can select all the songs and calls individually, which really helps if you just need to hear that particular call. As you play a track, the name of the bird is mentioned. It also shows on the screen with an illustration of the bird. Most birds have more than one illustration.

The ‘Europese Vogelgids’ fits on a 256 MB MP3 player, preferably one with a colour screen that displays album art, so you can see the illustrations. (iPod Nano, iPod Classic, iPod Touch, iPhone). The Dutch version will be available around the end of January.  The English version is available at www.birdguides.com/iDentify

You can read this review in Dutch on my blog.
» 4 Comments
1Comment
at Tuesday, 13 January 2009 13:40by Jay
sounds like a serioulsy kewl birding aid!!..what OS does the iPhone run on?
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at Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:50by gwendolen
It is just beautiful, J.  
I found some tech details on Wikipedia for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_OS
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at Tuesday, 13 January 2009 19:00by Jay
thanx Gwen :-)
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at Tuesday, 13 January 2009 19:51by Katja Soehngen
Very kewl indeed ;-) 
Thanx for that Gwen !
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