Bird Song Id USA songs & calls Reviews – Page 4
4/5 rating based on 133 reviews. Read all reviews for Bird Song Id USA songs & calls for iPhone.
Bird Song Id USA songs & calls is paid iOS app published by Mullen & Pohland GbR
A real disapointment
Greybeard in VA
I’ve used this app off and on for over 6 months and I’d guess 65% of my recordings come back as poor quality even though the bird is singing in the tree next to me. Maybe an auxillary mic would help. But when I get a good recording, which is about 1/3 of the time, it has never correctly identified the bird. I mean never as in not even once. This week I play some simple bird songs (the Easter Phoebe for example) from Merlin (another app) and this app couldn’t identify even perfectly recorded bird songs. My only advice is if you use it, and you don’t know your birdsongs, don’t trust this app to help you. You’d be better off taking the results and using them to eliminate what bird you heard. And FWIW, I’ve never rated an app 1 star before. As I said, this is a real disapointment.
Bird nerd
Abbie R
The app is finicky about sound quality when trying to record bird calls to identify species. Sometimes it works...sometimes it doesn’t.
Basically never identifies correctly
SD Disappointed
Even in the rare case when it deems a recording good enough it more or less always thinks any sound is a Brown Thrasher or often other birds not even present here (and yes app knows my location and many of the birds are loud and clear). The UI is also a bit weird... keeps going to the save recording page with no back button and similar bad navigation design. I am going to uninstall so I stop wasting my time with this app.
Disappointed
lady magdalene
I have not once had a pristine enough recording to identify any bird. Wish I could get my money back.
Useless
Vetteman 2006
Had a House wren 10 feet away sing 3 times during the recording and it never even brought it up as a guess. No way would this be useful with songs I don’t know.
Waste of money
4yearsurvivor/stage3
I very seldom leave bad reviews. Until now. Too difficult and clumsy to use. Not impressed.
Don’t waste your $, do your homework first!
Featherhead57
Not being given a free trial first should have sent alarms going off in my head before I paid money for this app. I can only blame myself for not researching this App first. A) Only 8 warblers? I’ve seen over 25 in Connecticut! B) The App hasn’t been updated in over 2 years! C) The App isn’t regionally specific. I doubt I’ll see a road-runner or Chachalaca in the Northeast. D) Some birds are included that even a non-Birder can recognize by sight and/or sound... (Osprey, Kingfisher, Hummingbird) It seems the developers have given up on this program. Although the record a sound feature is catchy, the data base is extremely limited and ineffectual.
Good for most common birds
Bmtndog
We have used this app to identify, or verify our hunch about, perhaps 4 or 5 common birds in our area. However, there are still some that just are not in the database. We don’t use the recording feature, instead we browse the listing making best guesses as to the type of bird. I’d like to see the number of birds identified increased.
Recording to identify doesn’t work
?listener
I’ve tried numerous times to record/identify bird calls, which is the main reason I got this app. It flat out doesn’t work. Perhaps if there was a single bird calling, non-stop, with no background noise whatsoever, I’d have better luck. But when does that ever happen? Note: the bird calls I’m recording are the dominant sound & I have made 30 second recordings. Very disappointing.