Have you ever been working away in a garden, digging over the borders, and heard a bird singing away that is unfamiliar to you and you wanted to identify what bird it was?
Of course, if you get a visual on the bird it's relatively easy to pick up a pocket book on garden birds and flick through the pages until you find something which resembles what you've seen.
What if you can hear the blighter but cannot actually see it?
Well, now there's an app for that.
Isoperla have launched an iPhone app which listens to the bird song and using a recognition software, cleverly identifies the bird to which the song belongs.
Bird Song Id helps you identify birds by their songs and calls, and lets you make your own recordings too. It is available in smartphone and tablet formats. An audiovisual library of 133 species is included.
It's still early days so the automatic recognition is only available for 38 bird species.
Manual Identification is available for all of the other species. The user listens to a bird singing and answers a few simple questions about what they are hearing, the app then scores each species and presents a sorted list to help determine which bird it is.
Isoperla worked alongside wildlife content specialists Sunbird and Jonathan Rougier of the mathematics department of Bristol University, to create the app.
Bird Song Id is available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. It is an evolving product, and you get free upgrades.
The app can be found on the Apple App Store at:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bird-song-id-automatic-recognition/id601362210?mt=8
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Website: http://www.isoperla.co.uk
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