A Concise Guide to Birding Apps (Synergetics Book 1)
Book Details
Author(s)Timothy Hillebrand
PublisherSynergetics International
ISBN / ASINB007TKXX94
ISBN-13978B007TKXX98
Sales Rank261,170
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Birders, especially beginning birders need to have a guidebook with them to help identify birds. But which one will suit them best is always the question? Seasoned birders already have their favorite tried and true faithful guide tattered from many field trips.Whether you are a veteran bird watcher or a beginner, you really should have an electronic guide.
I chuckle and feel sorry for birders struggling with their outmoded print treebook guides trying to look up a bird in the index and turn to the page before the bird flies away. The wind blows; they lose their place. The book falls in the mud while trying to protect it from the rain. It is difficult to juggle the book and look through binoculars. The whole birding experience can be ruined by a dumb treebook guide.
Instead, why not get an electronic version and avoid all these problems? Besides, an electronic guidebook can do so much more than a dumb print book. With an eguide, you can play bird calls and summon birds if you wish. You can get photographs and drawings of birds, retrieve information about behavior, environment just like a treebook, but faster without losing your place and having to turn pages. You can take notes and keep lists, which you can instantly transmit to friends via email or text. You can Index and retrieve your notes from a database. Keep lists of favorites. Go online to look up more information. Check out more photos in Flickr. You can't do any of this with an frumpy old treebook guide.
What's more, all this functionality costs about a third of the price of a treebook. So, you may wish to have a couple of eguides for cross reference, and it will still be less expensive than a single treebook.
The Concise Guide to Birding Apps discusses all of the popular birding books, compares them, and recommends the one that is clearly the best. But any one of them is better than a treebook version. All you need is a Smartphone to which you can instantly download an eguide wirelessly.
Do not go birding again without an electronic guide book. I guarantee you will have a much more enjoyable, productive experience and learn more as a result.
I chuckle and feel sorry for birders struggling with their outmoded print treebook guides trying to look up a bird in the index and turn to the page before the bird flies away. The wind blows; they lose their place. The book falls in the mud while trying to protect it from the rain. It is difficult to juggle the book and look through binoculars. The whole birding experience can be ruined by a dumb treebook guide.
Instead, why not get an electronic version and avoid all these problems? Besides, an electronic guidebook can do so much more than a dumb print book. With an eguide, you can play bird calls and summon birds if you wish. You can get photographs and drawings of birds, retrieve information about behavior, environment just like a treebook, but faster without losing your place and having to turn pages. You can take notes and keep lists, which you can instantly transmit to friends via email or text. You can Index and retrieve your notes from a database. Keep lists of favorites. Go online to look up more information. Check out more photos in Flickr. You can't do any of this with an frumpy old treebook guide.
What's more, all this functionality costs about a third of the price of a treebook. So, you may wish to have a couple of eguides for cross reference, and it will still be less expensive than a single treebook.
The Concise Guide to Birding Apps discusses all of the popular birding books, compares them, and recommends the one that is clearly the best. But any one of them is better than a treebook version. All you need is a Smartphone to which you can instantly download an eguide wirelessly.
Do not go birding again without an electronic guide book. I guarantee you will have a much more enjoyable, productive experience and learn more as a result.
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