Japanese Birds 1.4.3
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Publisher Description
This app provides information on 250 species of birds in Japan, complete with photographs, descriptions, and sounds. There are 364 sounds—including songs, calls, and drumming. Beautiful birdsong, passionate canzone, the melancholy melody of a love song, intense drumming, birdcall as daily communication—enjoy the diverse world of wild birds.
You can look up birds anytime, anywhere with this app installed on your iPhone/iPod touch. No more having to lug heavy guidebooks around.
When you encounter a bird, you can listen to its pleasing birdsong, then you can let this app work for you. You can browse by name alphabetically or by family, or search by common name, scientific name, or Japanese name.
Japanese name could be convenience when you talk to Japanese bird watcher. e.g. “Red-crowned Crane” is “Tan-cho” in Japanese name. It has also glossary and terminology in Japanese and English.
If you do not remember or cannot even guess at part of the bird's name, you can use the search function to search by color, size, habitat, or distribution. You can browse through the quickly returned search results, which are sorted by size. Color or habitat search conditions can be set as a filter as you wish.
To play a sound, simply tap on the sound play button or on the phonetic spelling text. Photographs, life descriptions, and phonetic spelling for voices help you to understand birds effortlessly.
In addition, you can let the link function work for you so you do not miss similar sounds.
You can make your own lists of favorite birds, by season, by site, or in any manner you like. Included are sample lists for Hokkaido(endemic to Hokkaido) and Okinawa(endemic to Okinawa).
The player function plays sounds from your own list or by family.
You can use it to simply appreciate your favorite sounds, or to train your ear using blind mode.
Text size for menus and descriptions can be set to small or large as you wish. This app is bilingual in Japanese and English, allowing you to enjoy international communication through wild birds.
The photographs are by Takuya Kanouchi, and the sound recordings and text are by Hideo Ueda. Between them, they have taken a massive number of photographs and recorded many, many sounds over several decades. Now this wealth of information is in your hands, and with this treasured library you can go out into the field of wild birds.
Some of the contents of this app were originally published as a book (see left picture). This app includes a glossary and terminology for parts of a bird taken from the book.
When you use this app to play sounds outdoors, please use headphones or turn the volume down if using a speaker. Your consideration in not disturbing other birdwatchers is appreciated.
******Update History*****
1.4.1
- Build for iOS 15
- Fixed bugs of display on some devices.
1.3.0
-Fixed corrupted layout in iOS7
-Fixed corrupted layout with using link from SmartBirding
-Revise stability of player with play list has large number of sounds.
-Fixed some bugs by improved memory management.
1.2.1
-Fixed wrong sort in alphabetic.
-Revise message about detecting of mute.
-Place name index has link to GoogleMap.
1.2.0
-Support screen size of iPhone 5 and iOS 6.
-This version is based on Check-list of Japanese Birds, 7th revised edition by The Ornithological Society of Japan
(Preference selects 6th edition or 7th.)
-Access to another species of same family in detail screen.
-Photos is positioned on horizontal scroll.
-Play by speaker mode over mute added. Default mode is not play by speaker if OS set to mute. In field play by speaker is sensitive to another bird watcher and wild birds.
-Link to Wikipedia
-Link to Smart Birding, movie app.
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Jul 26, 2022
Version 1.4.3
Bug fixed in Player mode.
About Japanese Birds
Japanese Birds is a paid app for iOS published in the Reference Tools list of apps, part of Education.
The company that develops Japanese Birds is Enwit Inc.. The latest version released by its developer is 1.4.3.
To install Japanese Birds on your iOS device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2022-07-26 and was downloaded 1 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Japanese Birds as malware if the download link is broken.
How to install Japanese Birds on your iOS device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to the App Store.
- Once the Japanese Birds is shown in the iTunes listing of your iOS device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the GET button to the right of the app to start downloading it.
- If you are not logged-in the iOS appstore app, you'll be prompted for your your Apple ID and/or password.
- After Japanese Birds is downloaded, you'll see an INSTALL button to the right. Tap on it to start the actual installation of the iOS app.
- Once installation is finished you can tap on the OPEN button to start it. Its icon will also be added to your device home screen.
