Birds of South America 4+

I don’t recommend

It has a couple of pictures of birds and their names in various languages. No vocalizations. For some birds, a brief description and habitat. Some pics are wrong.

Slightly better than nothing

Hours to download mediocre photos (user submitted or pulled from the web from the looks of it), only to find out that most of the birds still don't have pictures.

The descriptions are dry and the taxonomy is confusing, i.e. it is hard to find what you are looking for.

Points for lots of languages, but nothing else.

Greatly improved version

Three years ago I reviewed an early version of this app and found it practically useless (because it had no search functions and was simply a catalog of birds).

But this version is greatly improved and rectifies some of the problems I mentioned earlier. You can now narrow your search by country or by species and you can search the names and descriptions for various terms. Furthermore the app claims to list all 3000+ species in South America and, a real bonus, allows you to download the whole database for off-line use.

I would suggest two more improvements for the next version: 1) including a mention in each description of “similar species” to make comparisons easier; and 2) adding a function that allows narrowing search results by color, size, shape, etc.

But overall this app is a vast improvement over the earlier one and is now a useful tool for identifying birds in the field.

Felicitaciones!

Developer Response ,

Useless comment. And so old and never updated. But the app has been updated and is complete. It is a pity that users don't update their comments. Even for such a terrific app.