WP & UK Birding Checklist
PHOTOS & SOUNDS are downloaded separately, and must be manually installed via your PC. Please check the Readme file at this download website so you know how to do this. The photos and sounds are NOT included in the download package from the Android market. It is recommended that you test the download and install process with the demo version first, then upgrade to the full version when you have confirmed that it is working.
If you still have difficulties please check out the support website before emailing me: https://sites.google.com/site/birdingchecklists/
This is one of a series of Birding Checklist applications for Android mobile phones and tablets. There are applications for Australia, New Zealand, United States (excluding Mexico and South America), Western Palearctic (UK and Europe), Pacific Islands, South Africa, and Ecuador/Peru/Bolivia.
WP Download website:https://drivehq.com/folder/p8404317.aspx
Western Palearctic (includes UK) – 924 species and 1188 subspecies
These applications include basic bird identification information, and are NOT intended to replace a field guide. It is expected that users will have good familiarity with the birds they are seeing, and will use this application for:a. Logging bird sightings (with GPS co-ordinates if your phone has a GPS)b. Uploading your sightings to eBird (or similar PC or online recording system)c. Maintaining your Lifelist
Full versions have the following features:
- complete listing of all bird species and subspecies (where known)
- searching and filtering of the bird list
- statistics and record of your personal bird Lifelist
- current tick list (birds you have seen today or during a short field trip)
- quick lists for customised bird listings for locations your frequently visit
- display of bird photos and bird calls on the SD card linked to the application (these must be manually downloaded separately)
- logging facilities including GPS location (if your phone has a GPS)
- export log file in eBird Import format for rapid loading of your sightings to eBird
- optional downloadable Rangemaps and extended text descriptions (incomplete but growing collection on external download site)
- help information
- play mp4 videos of birds stored in the photos folder on the SD card
- support for large screen 1280 x 800 tablets
- second language support for display of bird names only. You can download language files for: Catalan, Danish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Slovakian, Spanish, Swedish
Demo versions have reduced functionality:
- cannot save lifelist, sighting logs or statistics
- will not display rangemaps or extended descriptions
- do not display ticklists for regions
- no GPS location display on Google maps
- no alternate language support
- no quicklists (custom filtering of bird lists for your location)
- no mp4 video support
You can easily add your own resources files – the application places no restriction on this but very large numbers of photos (many thousands) may slow down the application.
Please contact me if you have any comments or suggestions, or corrections to the bird information. Please also get in contact if you are interested in helping create a new birding checklist application for birds in your area.
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Reviews (23)
Waste of time, won't download the photos and sounds tried several ways even got the I.T geek at work to try, waste of £2,50
Since update taxanomic order all mixed up. Also I cannot find subspecies.
This is a must for traveling in this area
Easy to use
Had a bit of a kerfuffle downloading the pics, but I'm pretty sure that was as much due to my lack of technical ability than anything else. I found it difficult to understand the instructions but had great guidance from the developer and I got there in the end. As for the app itself, it's brilliant, I love it.
Love the pictures and sounds - useful aide memoir when out walking
Excellent customer support , great communication , very prompt responses to emails. This is a great app , that is backed up with excellent developer support. We had an issue loading this app to a tablet , Duncan understood the issue,explained in easy to understand terms on what he was doing and then did an up date so that the app worked. Thanks for all your help!
Fantastic developer support. Prompt replies to my emails. The latest update to include a text size option for the extended descriptions as discussed by email. Brilliant. Thank you.
Thank you! really easy toset up and use and the ability to display spp by Latin name really useful when discussing spp abroad.
Well pleased with this app! Gone are the days of the little black book ~} "birders do it in the field"
When the app is complete it will be very useful . It would be great if you could add your own photos and incorporate data from the web
A great app just got a lot better with the last update. For those throwing their rattles out of there pram Re: photos & sounds should head on down to specsavers! The instructions for doing this are made abundantly clear in the text above. Many thanks dev.
An excellent app, and really good value for money considering all the work that must have been done in putting all this information together! @Michael and others - please take the time to read the app description above. The photos and sounds are separate downloads (at no extra cost) - it's all explained in the description above.
Love it use it all the time!
Great work on the latest update. Loads in 1min now, used to take 10-15mins. Great app. HTC desire
There are several enquiries about the lack of photographs with this app and I contacted the provider with the same issue. NO RESPONSE!!. Don't buy it! I want my money back!!
Very impressed, excellent app. @ Mugwash on 6th December, 2011. I believe you installed this version and then un-installed the demo and removed the 30 or so birds which are common to both versions. I expect if you reinstall the files and then "scan photos & sounds" again all should be well.
I can't get my HTC Desire S to work this properly. I've got all the pictures and sounds dowloaded and unzipped but won't link to birds in list. Help!
Excellent and ever improving app. Very useful.
I downloaded this and it is very useful indeed. The only problem I have with this version is that some of the more common UK birds seem to be missing (Wren, House Sparrow and others. I have also downloaded the UK Only (Demo Version) and they are shown there. I suspect the problem may be me but any help is welcomed.
This app just works - no fuss, no clutter. Perfect except it's a little slow on the HTC Wildfire (but everything else is slow on the Wildfire too). Hope you have a Southern African version in your pipeline.
Thanks for zoom would like double tap to zoom for 1 handed use and one click for next pic rather than menu then arrow★★★★★
Love it but would love it more if worked on my sd card. I tried, now on internal. Also found it using up space on cloud storage Another issue:I just had to change phone so stored lifelist, app says storing on SD, it doesnt show where stored but actually it was internal too. Had to search & do another way. Helps if user understands this level of tech & that programmer might not know that what they see as SD card might not be what SD card actually is eg on Samsung phone