For anyone who is interested, the Michael Morecombe field guide app is now available for Android phones at https://market.android.com/details?id=com.coolideas.eproducts.ausbirds&feature=search_result
I understand versions for Blackberry and Windows phones will be coming at some point.
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Couldn’t agree more Dave, I rarely use anything else in the field these days. Very convenient!
Cheers, Chris
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Waiting for the Windows version (I’m not allowed any other phone as my son manages the product!)
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How do you figure that – similar price (looking at Android) to USA and Sth Africa apps, a lot cheaper than the book and some CDs
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It’s seriously overpriced.
John Leonard
Works a treat Tony. Thankyou
Chris Charles
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Hi Andrew I’ve been using the Morcombe eGuide on my iPod Touch since it became available and can’t praise it highly enough.
When searching I always use the Quick Search option at the top of the Index screen (Tax. or Alph.) It’s an excellent search engine and responds in real time to letters entered. With practice you can quickly guess a letter combination within the target bird’s name that would not occur in many other birds’ names and enter that into the search window. I’ve found that incorporating the space (#) between two of the words of a bird’s name will get a quick result. For example typing in a#p brings up Wonga Pigeon and one other , d#o will get you the oystercatchers and a couple of others. For the Fantails you mention, y#fan gets just those two.
Tony Gibson
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Does anyone know if there’ll ever be a laptop Mac version?
Cheers
Ronda
Ronda Green, BSc(Hons) PhD http://www.learnaboutwildlife.com
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I recently purchased it for iphone and I love it. As someone who has not been good at picking calls it is great, although the search function needs improving, it can be surprisingly difficult at times to get to the bird you want through the alphabetic search. The listing part is also very basic, it can’t email a day list, the clunkiness of the search makes it a bit impractical (although the tick list is quite good) and it doesn’t use the phones GPS at all for location which is a bit of an obvious flaw – so for the moment I still need a separate app to do this. Still, money well spent, the illustrations are good and I don’t feel the need to lug a field guide around as often. I do like the compare function – being able to see a Grey Fantail and Mangrove Grey Fantail side by side is great
Best though -having the calls of 650 Australian birds always in your pocket is pretty cool (and can break the boredom of tedious meetings occasionally)!.
Cheers
Andrew bell Katherine NT