Morcombe field guide released as an iPhone/iPod touch app

[Ian May <>]

Having the highest regard for Morcombe's Field Guide, this is great 
news.   Especially I have always liked the distribution maps showing 
races and subspecies.
Problem is I am not familiar with using Ipods and am unsure how to 
download this field guide from Itunes. Can anyone advise please?
Regards

Ian May


 wrote:
> I would think the calls are a lot better if they are from Dave's
> collection. I'm not knocking the BOCA series, because I rely on them a
> lot, but the more modern recordings, such as those by Dave Stewart, and
> more recently Graeme Chapman, are superior in audio quality, and the ones
> I've heard eliminate the pleasant but confusing ambient sounds of the bush
> - and other bird calls!
>
> Russell Woodford
>
> On Fri, October 22, 2010 8:15 am, Peter Shute wrote:
>
> > Will it run on an iPad? I'm not familiar with any of the three devices,
> > but had assumed applications would work on any.
> >
> > It is good news, and hopefully other field guides will follow suit. I
> > think the only existing similar application is the S&D field guide for
> > PCs, which pre dates it by a long time. Obviously it was an idea before
> > its time, and it will be interesting to see if others follow now, and for
> > which devices.
> >
> > Are you able to explain how the application works? E.g. What does one do
> > to look up a species image? Can one call up two at once to compare them,
> > or quickly swap between them?
> >
> > And how much overlap is there between this set of calls and the BOCA
> > calls?
> >
> > Peter Shute
> >
> >
> > --------------------------
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