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
On 13/08/2011, at 14:56 , Andrew Bell wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Murray Lord
> Sent: Saturday, 13 August 2011 11:54 AM
> To:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Morecombe field guide app for android phones
>
> 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&featu
> re=search_result
>
> I understand versions for Blackberry and Windows phones will be coming at
> some point.
>
> Cheers
>
> Murray
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