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Collins British Bird Guide 4+
A field guide to Britain
NatureGuides Ltd.
Designed for iPad
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- £6.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Collins British Bird Guide takes 264 of the most commonly seen British & Irish bird species from the award-winning Collins Bird Guide and presents them in the same easy-to-use practical format. Search for a species by location, time of year or plumage traits; browse the stunning illustrations by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterström; read the authoritative text by Lars Svensson; check distribution against the up-to-date maps taken from Bird Atlas 2007–2011; or listen to any of the hundreds of sound recordings.
Praise for the Collins Bird Guide app:
‘It’s much more convenient than taking a big book with you...the Collins app is fantastic.’
– Chris Packham, Metro
‘The Collins Bird Guide app is destined to become a real triumph, the ultimate in field guide apps — and deservedly so.’
– BirdGuides
What’s New
Version 2.1.3
Added new calls, reinstated missing gender symbols from the annotations and fixed a problem when downloading the video packs.
Ratings and Reviews
Update has errors
The recent update (for which an additional charge was made) seems to have numerous bugs and errors compared to the previous version. Hopefully these will be fixed; it may be helpful to give an option in the app for providing feedback.
An example is the picture of the heron- initially it only had one image (previous app had about five of six), this is now corrected but it is now incorrectly titled ‘White Stork’ !
The new version has clearly not been properly checked and for now it is a retrograde step- annoying as I have now paid for the ‘upgrade’ and cannot go back to the previous version!
Still basically a good app though.
No Syncing iPhone to iPad
I am enjoying using the app with my little grandson. We easily made our first list on my iPhone but I later noticed it had not synced to my iPad. Is there anyway of doing that? It would be a great help. Also sharing my list with my wife for her app would be good. Its a great app for the price.
Good interface
The long scrolling and filtering interface are very good ways to view the birds and find what you are looking for: much easier than tapping back and forth through pages like an ebook.
Other reviews mention missing birds:
Redpolls: from my searching the Mealy is the Common. The Lesser doesn’t have a separate entry but is included in the Mealy’s entry.
Wagtails: the White and Pied are sub-species and both are covered in the White’s entry.
You can also fix this by changing the app’s language in its settings: use ‘English’ instead of British English’. This doesn’t make sense but entry names change, eg, to White / Pied Wagtail and (Common) Redpoll.
This is a good app that focuses on birds common to Britain, which make it quicker to use as it omits birds that are uncommon and mostly found in Europe. I think this is a selection from the bigger Collins app, and all the more useful when out-and-about. It’s good on iPhone and better on iPad, looking forward to using it on my new M1 Mac.
App Privacy
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Data Not Collected
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Information
- Provider
- NatureGuides Ltd.
- Size
- 389.8 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.5 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © NatureGuides Ltd
- Price
- £6.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Video Library £4.99
- Third edition £2.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.