Chirp! Bird Songs & Calls USA

Chirp! The original app for identifying and learning bird songs - and still the best! How often do you hear songs and calls of birds around you - wouldn't it be good to know what they are?

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Reference	$3.99	Spiny Software Ltd	iPhone, iPad, iPod

Chirp! has been developed by nature specialists, iSpiny, specifically to help you learn and identify bird songs. It is also a great feel-good pick-me-up! Listen and learn over 300 bird songs and calls from across mainland USA, with up to 34 seconds of song for each bird, and alternative recordings for some birds. The songs and calls are of the highest quality, most provided by the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

On first use, Chirp! selects birds for your current location, but then you are free to select any state (or group of states) on the Map Screen, to learn the common species from east to west and north to south. Or you may prefer to select all birds to learn the whole range! Try sorting by song style, so that you can compare birds that hoot and coo, or those with high pitched songs for example. If you are a beginner, sort the birds by commonness, so you can listen to the most common ones first, then move on to less frequent backyard visitors.

Make a shortlist of your favourites so that you can find them quickly (tap the + icon above the image to add birds to your favorites list).

After listening, try the quiz to test your memory. Answer fast to earn a score multiplier and get on the high score table! Experienced birders can use the custom quiz to help distinguish and learn similar songs.

And when you need a rest, try the slideshow feature - choose which birds to include, maybe add background bird song, then simply relax. If you want to continue learning while you relax, switch the voiceover on (iOS 7+ only) and hear the name of the bird announced at the end of each clip. This is also a good way of competing with the family - who can say the name of the bird first?!

To keep up with the latest news:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/iSpiny
Facebook (Chirp! & Chirpomatic birdsong apps): www.facebook.com/chirpbirdsongs
Facebook (Nature Guides): www.facebook.com/ispinynatureguides

Problems? Email us: [email protected]

Reviews

Nice program
lawthlawth

I have really enjoyed this program. It’s easy to search & has a nice picture of each bird. Bird songs are great & abundant, though some of the bird calls are missing. All of the most common birds are there, and a few have more than one song as an option. I recommend it for an easy to use program.

Chirp Rocks
murphy1925

We love this app. It has greatly enhanced our bird watching experience. It is also a good learning tool for our grandchildren

Plugger73
Plugger73

4 solid stars. The missing 5th star is for the the missing feature of identifying the sound of a nearby bird .. like the app “Shazam” does for songs heard on the radio .. that would make this app a perfect 5.

Great way to learn
pa180140

I’ve been trying to learn to identify birds by sound and this is really helping. I enjoy playing the quiz games. I wish you could save your favorites instead of choosing them each time, so you could practice certain ones. I enjoy that you can choose regions. Overall I think it’s a great app.

Pretty much what I wanted.
Monk61

I have to prime my brain for bird songs each spring and this gives me a good way to review what I haven’t heard for many months. Still learning the app: would like to be able to edit the geographical groups to delete, e.g., waterfowl or waders. Seems I’m able to do that in the slideshow mode, but not geo. Maybe I’ll figure it out. The quick quizzes are fun & probably useful. All in all, just as good, if not better than the CDs I’ve gotten accustomed to.

Well organized
Sienna Martine

It is very easy to sort based in different characteristics, like commonness or bird type or type of song. I also like the swipe feature to get to the next bird and I really enjoy the quizzes at different levels of difficulty.

It updated but will. It open
cingular98

Good app but still has bugs.

It stopped working
Alaskanrifleman

This was a fun app while it worked but I think it has a timed fail date like just about everything else Apple or Apple affiliated. I received a message with instructions regarding how to get my app back up and it worked. Still a fan. This app is fun.