The Warbler Guide
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The Warbler Guide

Princeton University Press · released 21 Dec 2014 · Open in App Store ↗

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Description

Warbler Guide App

Tom Stephenson & Scott Whittle

Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Best App/eProduct

The Warbler Guide App is the perfect companion to Princeton’s revolutionary and widely acclaimed book The Warbler Guide, by Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle. Whether for study or field use, this innovative app delivers the full power of The Warbler Guide in your pocket—plus unique new app-only features.

The app allows you to identify birds by view or song, quickly and intuitively. Exciting new 3D graphics enable you to view a bird from the exact angle you see it in the field. And the whole range of warbler songs is easily played, compared, and filtered.

Breakthrough features from The Warbler Guide book that are included in the app:

Rapid and confident two-step ID process using visual finders and comparison species

The first complete treatment of warbler songs, using a new objective vocabulary

An intuitive visual finder that includes side, 45-degree, and undertail views

Master Pages with detailed ID points

Complete guide to determining the age and sex of warblers with photos of all ages and sexes

Annotated sonograms showing song structure and key ID points

Complete songs, chip calls, and flight calls for all species

Comparison species for making confident visual and audio IDs

Many additional photos to show behavior and reinforce key ID points

Highlighted diagnostic ID points

Color Impression Icons for narrowing down ID of warblers from the briefest glimpses

Behavior and habitat icons

Unique new app-only features:

3D models of birds in all plumages, rotatable and pinch-zoomable to match field experience of a bird

Intuitive, visual, and interactive finders with filters for possible species based on audio and visual criteria chosen by the user

Playback of all songs and vocalizations with sonograms makes study of vocalizations easy

Selectable finder sortings grouped by color, alphabetical order, song type, and taxonomic order

Interactive song finder using objective vocabulary for fast ID of unknown songs

Simultaneous visual and song finders make identifying an unknown warbler even easier

Half-speed song playback allows for easier study of song structure

Comparison species with selectable side, 45 degree, and undertail views

Features 75 3D images

Covers 48 species and 75 plumages

Includes 277 vocalizations, 156 songs, 73 contact calls, and 48 flight calls

Detailed "how to use" tutorial screens

Requires iOS 7.0 or later

Tom Stephenson’s articles and photos have appeared in Birding and Bird Watcher’s Digest, at Surf-birds.com, and in the Handbook of the Birds of the World. He has guided groups across the United States and Asia. A musician, he has had several Grammy and Academy Award winners as clients, and was director of technology at Roland Corporation. Scott Whittle lives in Cape May, New Jersey, and has twenty years of experience as a professional photographer and educator. He holds an MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York, is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony, and is a onetime New York State Big Year record holder.