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dsizzlelast Wednesday at 5:55 PM2 repliesview on HN

Not sure what you mean - both the "Explore" part and the Life List both have the pics and the calls together?

It is indeed a good app, but my beef is how bad it is at adding birds to your life list. After ID'ing a bird by sound or picture it'll ask you where/when you found it with the worst defaults -- it'll know where you are and what time it is, but it sometimes randomly picks some time/place you've been at months ago (even ignoring that you may have just entered several at your current location)!


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lax_och_potatislast Wednesday at 7:37 PM

If you’re getting serious into birding, a lot of folks do the lists with the separate app eBird, which lets you make lists of birds you’ve seen on say, a given walk in a specific park. It’s like a digital version of a bird checklist you might find at a wildlife refuge.

(Pro tip, if you have 100 seagulls you don’t want to count individually, you can use X to say you don’t know. Also you can enter a general group like “gull sp.” if you can’t quite identify which kind of seagull they are)

rigrassmlast Wednesday at 6:04 PM

Oh yeah, I use those features, what I want is to be able to isolate specific calls and store that exact sound clip along with pictures I took to try and keep track of individual birds that visit regularly.