Peterson Birds North America

If you like the book, you'll like the app. This is based very closely on the classic field guide. It has all the plates from the book plus more complete information on each species. It includes the "confusing fall warblers" plates and waterfowl in flight comparison plates - great resources that you won't find in any other app. Navigation is quick and intuitive. Go to a family from the main menu, or flip through the plates like pages of a book, and drill down to species at any point.

i like the ease of putting birds on a list that I have sightings of. But because no pictures show up, the app is worthless. I wrote the above and then reached out to the developer. They were quick to respond and helped me get it reinstalled and get the account working. The pictures now show. I do wish colour was an option in the search filter. Otherwise it works great.

This is not an official Peterson app. The species are completely (years) out of date. Many species in the app are obsolete, as they are no longer recognized by ornithological authorities (having been split into multiple species, merged with other species, or renamed). Similarly, species that should be present in the app for these same reasons are not included. This app is the equivalent of buying a very old, used book that will never be updated. Use iBird, Audubon, Sibley, or Merlin app instead.

Well organized. easy to use. Very useful with enough good unformation for field identification. I like the feature of searching by county and also filtering by month.

I bought it, was great until the last update. Since update, nothing works anymore. No image no nothing

Excellent, well reknowned resource.

It's okay but I wish you didn't have two pay

Gotta pay? That's for the birds. I'll give you the bird.

One of the best.

Short trial before you had to pay to use. Upgrade to unlock is to expensive, apps fails to live up to the peterson guide standards. Poorly executed.

I bought this 2 years ago, then with the latest update, it said I had to buy it again!!! Horrible service and a total scam

AVOID this app! Do not BUY! Support has been ended! Out of date edition. Doesn't seem to even work anymore. Why it is still on Play Store I don't know.

Bought (paid for!) this app on previous phone. Thought it was lackluster and not up to the Peterson Guide standard. Images of birds are simply zoom-ins of group photos, and not particularly detailed, and provide only limited views of alternate plumage = not very useful. Now, transferring to new phone, they want an additional $15 to unlock all species. This app loses in comparison to others as it is, and is not worth extra expenditure. At all. Whatsoever. Going to kiss my original investment goodbye, and move on. App authors & marketers, you made a bad business decision here. Sorry.

As a professional wildlife biologist, I advise you to NOT BUY THIS APP. I bought it in 2016 paying the price for full rights and it was great for 2 years. In March this year the bird sounds stopped working. The CSA from HIgher Learning Technologies (which now owns Gwhiz) advised to delete the app from my phone, turn my phone off for 15 minutes, then re-download the app. Upon doing that, the app has informed me that I need to pay for full rights AGAIN if I want full access. Very poor advice from the CSA. This app has gone downhill.

App used to work better, but lately it hangs all the time when doing anything, like just scrolling through images on species pages. Export of life list does nothing. I liked it a lot when I first bought it last April, but now it is completely unusable.

These are great... Correction: excellent field guides. My mom owns a physical copy. I'm giving i am giving this app 2 stars because it looked free but only had a 24 hour trial. If I find myself weighed down by $10's I'd pick this one up in an instant.

Excellent app. Better than the others. This app has excellent Pics and descriptions and maps. It is a very thorough app. If you are looking for a good birding app this is the one

Please help I'm unable to open this application on my Droid phone is that alright

Now they want to charge for bits that were included before...Was a really nice app... But it gets more bloated and slower with every update..

I paid $12 for this app less than a year ago. Now I updated and I need to create an account and pay another $21 just keep using it!!! Stay away! This is a money grab. I've been ripped off. Don't let it happen to you. There are other choices in the Play Store.

Paid for the app a year ago. Now tried installing on a new phone. Says i have to pay another 15 dollars for updated app.this is garbage. Not going to pay every time i use a new device. Paid already shouldn't have to pay again

Bait and switch. Initially FREE the many aspects stop working after 24 hours unless you pay for upgrade. Not really expensive but sneaky approach Won't upgrade on principal

I like the layout and such. I usually use more than one app in the field and this seems promising. The screen swipe is better but still a little wonky. Pinch to zoom in seems to freeze app or just confuses the hell out of it . Needs some fine tuning. Merry Christmas.

RTP would be embarrased to have his name on this. Images are cut outs from his book, they cannot compare with good high definition photos.

Basically, an awful app. Sadly, the best one I've tried so far for keeping a life list. This app is a good example how lazy app developers have gotten. If RTP were still alive, he'd be quite upset his name was on such a thing as this. There's no way to keep a life list for life as there's no way I can find to export the data in any "permanent" way. I've given up on apps (and I'm a techno geek)! I'm going back to paper and pen. The state of technology saddens me to no end as a former programmer.

This is nothing more than an electronic version of the field guide book. The search engine is awful. All it asks for is State, Month, Habitat and type of bird (perching, water, etc.). It then gives a list of all birds that fit the 4 criteria. I might as well carry the actual field guide, which I already own, and save the $10 purchase price. For searching, Merlin, Ibird, Audubon and Sibley all provide more options to narrow down the search. On the positive side, if all you want is a reference and know what bird you are looking for, the layout and information is very nice. It's just not an app like the others mentioned above useful for trying to identify what bird you're looking at.

Compared with Sibley and iBird Pro, this seems to have the best general info on species, but lacks many call variations found in the other apps as well as any supplementary photos (except of nests). You can add your own photos to the notebook, but I haven't been able to pick one from any source except Samsung's Gallery without crashing. The interface is attractive and well thought out. Some proofreading is needed. Canada is included in the range maps but not the range text.

Am excited to see this app. I love using the actual book. Looking forward to some performance improvement updates, hopefully sooner then later. Also freezes a lot. Pictures have trouble loading.

I've tried many bird apps and this is the simplest and most straightforward to find birds locally.

This is very similar to using the actual book version.