Larkwire Learn Bird Songs
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Free | Larkwire LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Learn bird songs the fun way!
This is the app used by professionals to master birding by ear.
Have you always wanted to know what birds you were hearing? If you love birds, knowing bird songs and bird calls is like being able to speak their language.
Larkwire is a complete, game-based system for learning to identify bird sounds—designed for both beginners and advanced birders. Try our free demo at Larkwire.com.
***** "Best thing I’ve ever bought on the App Store." (Shopetastic review, 04/16/2020)
***** "Uniformly excellent" (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
***** "A Rosetta Stone for birdsong." (Birding Magazine)
***** "This is a really cool tool!" (BirdChick)
***** "Really fun!" (Wildlife South)
SEVEN COURSES, INCLUDING:
- BACKYARD BASICS
- LAND BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
- WATER BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
COVERING: 479 species, 646 songs and calls, with more than 2,500 recordings.
EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF BIRDING BY EAR! GREAT FOR KIDS!!
* HIGHLY EFFICIENT, STRUCTURED PRACTICE based on proven cognitive techniques;
* IDENTIFICATION TIPS from Michael O'Brien—one of the top "ear birders" in North America;
* COMPLETELY CUSTOMIZABLE—learn the bird sounds you want to learn.
* Unprecedented coverage of BIRDSONG VARIATIONS encountered in the field.
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"Larkwire is already helping immensely with my ability to bird in the field. And my 7-year-old daughter is asking for 'that bird song game on the computer.'—I guess you have THREE of us hooked!" (Courtenay Schurman, Mountaineering Trainer)
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"It's like having a personal teacher who can pinpoint my weaknesses and make me work on them as I play. By far the best value for your money when you think about buying an avian audio guide." (Alain Clavette, aka @Acadian_Birder)
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"A fantastic tool for learning and reviewing birdsong. ... What I can vouch for, as a teacher, is the solid learning theory behind the software—this program is sure to improve the speed and accuracy with which you identify birds by ear." (David Pugh, Calgary Birder)
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SPECIES LISTS
For full species lists, visit www.larkwire.com or just download the app.
SUPPORT
For questions or support, email: [email protected]
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Reviews
Exactly what I was looking for!
Superduperdo
I wanted to find a way to learn bird calls and songs that would work similarly to Dulingo. This app is exactly that, and will feel very familiar to anybody who has used Dulingo before. Learning bird songs is similar to learning a foreign language, and takes about the same amount of effort. This app lets me put in 10 minutes here, 20 minutes there, day after day, while saving my progress. After just a couple of weeks using this program, my birding has improved markedly, and walking in the woods is a whole different experience from before. The change is like the difference between traveling in a foreign city where you don’t speak any of the language, and being in one with a language you understand. I never knew how much I was missing out on by not knowing my bird calls until I started using this app. I cannot recommend Larkwire highly enough.
Excellent learning tool
Pyortle
My only suggestion would be to update the user interface; the design feels like something out of the early 2000s.
Great App
MBS Cold Spring
Excellent for learning to bird by ear. Love to play the games, highly recommend!
Love it!
DesertLesley
This is a great, comprehensive learning tool. My only complaint is likely due to my level as a birder. Sometimes, it's obvious to distinguish birds at the beginner and intermediate levels (example: owl and common yellowthroat). Hoping I'll be able to train my ear to distinguish intra-family and other similar calls.
The best
King Eider
Still the king of bird song learning apps. This becomes painfully obvious when practicing songs for areas outside USA and Canada. Finding my own recordings of decent quality, grouping them by similar sounding species, finding pictures, and getting it all into iTunes is doable but time consuming. This app is worth its price and more. Could we hope for coverage of other areas in the future?
Good prep for field surveys
AlaskaNomad
I’ve used this app since about 2013 to prepare for doing spring ALMS and BBS routes. I would call it a basic indispensable tool.
Praise from a Point Counter
Jack Curry
I use this app every field season to prepare for the summer. It's such a fun way to learn/relearn bird songs. It's slopes up pretty slowly for beginners but it's got enough details for the real bird fanatics. Great app!
A present for myself
funkyzilla
I got this app as a Mother’s Day gift and I love it! Now when I am running through the woods I know which birds are up in the trees looking down at me.
Great to start, now just frustrating
TessR92
If you are interested in just learning bird songs as a whole this is an AMAZING app! I love quizzing myself, and have recommended this to others in the past. Lately though I’ve just been super frustrated with their customized lists. I’m trying to brush up for field season where I collect breeding bird data and yet when I make a customized list of species that I know I will encounter, it only ever seems to quiz me on the same 8-10 species. Never any warblers, rarely what I need to work on, and no amount of adjusting playlists or settings seems to fix this. Considering the whole draw was the ability to tailor my study sessions I’m afraid I’ve been pretty let down, and for that reason only 3 stars.
