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What is Song Sleuth Bird Song Analyzer?
Song Sleuth is an app that turns your iPhone or iPad into a bird song analysis tool. It covers the 200 most common vocalizing land birds in North America and allows you to record bird songs, compare them to known species, learn about bird songs, and even suggests matching species. The app is suitable for beginners, intermediate birders, and advanced birders who want to study bird songs further.
1. Developed by Wildlife Acoustics, in collaboration with world-renowned bird expert and illustrator David Sibley, the app records bird songs, allows you to compare your songs to known species, has a reference to research and learn bird song, and even suggests matching species.
2. To assist you in determining the correct bird, you can listen to your recording and the example recordings of the likely matches as well as compare their spectrograms side-by-side.
3. Also, Song Sleuth automatically selects the birds that are likely to be in your area at the present time of year, so you need to be sure the birds you are playing are selected in the SPECIES LIST.
4. Well-known nature recordist Lang Elliot and friends spent countless hours recording in the field to provide over 1,000 world-class recording examples of the included bird species.
5. The reference includes Sibley illustrations of each bird, a description of each bird and its songs, zoomable range maps and a bar chart showing the likelihood of each bird’s presence in your area throughout the year, using Sibley’s extensive database of bird presence.
6. Song Sleuth turns your iPhone or iPad into a bird song analysis powerhouse covering the 200 most common vocalizing land birds in North America.
7. Simply press the record button when you hear a bird singing and the app begins recording a few seconds back in time using the built-in microphone.
8. The included David Sibley Bird Reference lets you learn more about each species.
9. -The app does not identify simple calls, chips and scolds, only bird songs and more distinct calls that are characteristic of that species.
10. Recordings are saved in the RECORDING LIST where you can view the recording’s spectrogram, listen to the recording (and speed it up or slow down), add a text note, or view the GPS location.
11. Tap the record button again when the song is complete and Song Sleuth immediately shows you three most likely species.
12. Liked Song Sleuth Bird Song Analyzer? here are 5 Reference apps like iBird Photo Sleuth; Chirp! Bird Songs & Calls USA; ChirpOMatic Bird Song ID - USA; Bird Songs USA & Canada (3100);
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Song Sleuth Bird Song Analyzer On iTunes
| Download | Developer | Rating | Score | Current version | Adult Ranking |
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| Free On iTunes | Wildlife Acoustics | 312 | 3.25 | 2.3.4 | 4+ |
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- Song Sleuth Auto-ID suggests matching species, but the final identification is up to the user.
- The app identifies bird songs and more distinct calls that are characteristic of that species, but not simple calls, chips, and scolds.
- The app does not recognize birds that are mimicking other birds.
- The app performs best outdoors with live birds and not as well with pre-recorded sounds.
- The app allows you to save, view, listen to, and share recordings.
- The app includes David Sibley Bird Reference information, including illustrations, descriptions, zoomable range maps, and a bar chart showing the likelihood of each bird's presence in your area throughout the year.
- The app provides a complete collection of example recordings made by nature recordist Lang Elliot and friends.
- The app allows you to see your recording locations on a satellite or road map or transfer them to a computer and view them in Google Earth.
- The app has a loop recording feature that includes the previous three seconds in the recording.
- The spectrograms are helpful for visual learners to aid in bird identification.
- The app has a lot of great features for recording birds.
- The accuracy of the bird identification feature is hit or miss, especially with background noise.
- Isolating the bird call doesn't always work.
- The app may require an external microphone and the user must be still when handling the phone/iPad.
- The database may have some problems that need to be resolved.
- The new selection box feature may not be helpful for users who don't know which bird is singing.
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