National Geographic Birds: Field Guide to North America App Reviews

All of the answers on the quizzes are blank. Glitch is disappointing anyone else have similar problems? I would really like to see this fixed after spending the money on it

fun and easy

Absolutely great app. We love the design and ease of figuring out a new bird sighted!! But, this app is freezing up quite often! Please fix it, if it didnt freeze up some ... It would for sure be 5 stars!

We put some bird feeders in the yard this year, and this has been very helpful for identifying the dozen different birds that weve seen there (as well as others weve seen around town). The search interface is well designed, and the combination of adult/immature pictures for most birds and the range maps for each have helped a lot.

I am a biologist and took this to a setting I have never visited and used this instead of the traditional book and I like it! At the same time I tried another app for general wildlife and it was and is a disaster. One of the things I like most is being able to study the calls of birds before arriving at my destination. This is because I often hear the bird before seeing it or I do not see it at all the first visit. But being able to recognize the call makes a revisit worthwhile. Plus, I like the little add-on features. Now, if they just made this quality of app for plants, reptiles, mammals, amphibians, and other organisms I would have a great library of books on my iPad.

Very nice app! Extremely well put together. Extensive information. It is very easy to use the filters to figure out what you are looking at. The quizzes are fun, and sort of helpful. Overall very nice!

Well worth the $2.99 I payed for it. Its pretty much an electronic version of the book, but with sounds and much faster searching. The added features are what makes this app so nice, particularly the ability to make different lists, like "life birds" and "yard birds", then add birds to them. You can also click on a bird you identify and add an "event", which will record the bird, the time, the date, and the location, all automatically. Theres a lot of birding information, as well as a quiz section too. Only negative: it crashes quite a bit, but not enough to impact me too much.

I never appreciated birds until I bought this app I cant wait to get up every morning and sit on my deck and play the bird calls and watch them come from all around. Wonderful app, just wonderful!

This is a great app for North American hobbyists, and I especially love the calls and songs for the various birds. I had a great "conversation" with a tufted titmouse by playing the song he was singing, and he popped down to our campsite for a closer look. Stellar! But the Journals Events logging feature is buggy. Adding a new bird to an existing Event causes that event -- and all the birds logged to it -- to disappear. Very uncool. I was able to replicate this problem, and finally resorted to the old-fashioned paper and pen. The Quiz feature is also a bit odd. It gives you, say, 10 questions which you answer, and then if you get any answers wrong, it just tells you that youve missed something without telling you which questions were answered incorrectly. Im not quite sure how Im supposed to learn from that experience. Keep to the basic functionality and its a great app. Just dont stray too far off the primary purpose...

I have only participated in backyard birding since 2007 and still have so much to learn! This app makes it easy to identify birds, even if you are a beginner. Just open the filter portion of the app, choose a region, feather color and bird size and match your bird by species. Listen to bird calls to identify birds you can hear but not see. If you make an identification error you can easily correct it yourself. One of my favorite options is dropping a pin on my sighting location, which aids with real scientific research. Then I get to brag about my contribution to science. My very favorite part of this app is posting my bird images and entering my personal observation notes. I have this app on an iPod and take pictures with my camera, put the images onto a larger screen tv and copy an image from the tv with my iPod, so the images I share are good ones. Get this app, it is worth the price!

I am a beginner in bird watching and I absolutely love this app! I have been getting really good at identifying birds both visually and by their calls and song. It is with every dime Ive spent on it. Great for the bird enthusiast. If your mildly interested in bird watching GET THIS APP!!!

Im so happy this is not like those crappy Audubon social networking programs that are 90% social networking, and 10% field guide. When I pay for reference, I want 100% reference.

I was looking for an app like this for a while and found it. Thanks guys

I have enjoyed this app greatly for the last two years. Im out on my deck every day calling birds using the bird sounds on this app. It has so many filters that identifying birds has become almost too easy. Get the app!

App not satisfactory; tried to find information on red-tailed hawk and blue heron, two interesting birds within our region; neither was listed. Perhaps National Geographic should spend more time and energy on a worthwhile product, instead of being consumed by an obsession with global warming.

This is a great reference book which I find has all the information needed to identify birds and learn more about habitat and so on. The only thing I find as a negative is the amount of disk space required for this guide. If you want to own this, ensure you have plenty of room on your iGadget.

This is hands down one of the best bird identification apps in the App Store. It has an amazing library of birds, and I havent yet stumbled upon a bird that I wasnt able to find. It also has an intuitive filter to help you find birds based on such things such as the region and time of year. But the best part of the app has to be the journaling aspect. You can record the birds you see along with info such as weather and location. Other unique features make this a must have for both expert and a amateur birdwatchers. Two thumbs up!

I would give it 4.7 if that were possible. Great resource, solid interface, high quality just like the book, wonderful to have every species that’s been seen in N. America (I live in AZ and often go to FL and TX). Great images, and nice they’ve integrated the Peterson mode of noting field marks (and you can disappear them with a tap!). Handy listing tool, though I’m not yet willing to trust an app to track multi-years of my sightings (my iPhone 5s crashed a few weeks ago, inexplicably wouldn’t take my security code, had to zap it and start again, lost recordings and other stuff that didn’t backup). But great for counting species/numbers for CBCs, day trips, etc. The only problem I see with this app, to date, is the lack of updating to accommodate the iPhone 6 and all its extra real estate—even the smaller bigger phone. Cuts off the images an inch or so before the screen ends, whether vertical or horizontal—just a white space where there should be bird. Frustrating, especially for older eyes. I hope they get on this soon. Still, its tough to beat this app for having virtually everything you need, regardless of your skill level.

This app is a little on the pricy side but is well worth it. With 995 species, it is very comprehensive. All species have one or up to three illustrations and one map. Most have a sound recording (like 80%) and some of the more common birds have up to five. The layout is clean and easy to follow which I like. As someone who is new in birding, all of the search features are very useful. You can search by color, size, location, and so on. Im not very good at identifying birds yet so this helps a lot. The quizzes on the birds are a nice feature but not something to buy it for. The journal is nice and works well from what I can tell. The feature where you can list certain species is also nice but not that important. One thing I wish they would expand on is the videos of the birds. There are only around 10-15 videos and I really like them. Please add on that in future updates! Also, I hate how the maps cut off at the end of Mexico or end of Alaska even if the bird species keeps going more south. I would like to see the full location. Overall, nice, easy to use app. Would give four and a half stars, but rounding up for having so many species!

Its very hard using the filters to identify birds, which is why I purchased the app. Too many times Ive used the filters and nothing that comes up matches the bird Im looking at in my yard. If you already know the bird, you can find it by looking up the name. The maps and sound files are good.