The Warbler Guide
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Warbler Guide App Tom Stephenson & Scott Whittle Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Best App/eProduct The Warbler Guide App is the perfect companion to Princeton’s revolutionary and widely acclaimed book The Warbler Guide, by Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle. Whether for study or field use, this innovative app delivers the full power of The Warbler Guide in your pocket—plus unique new app-only features. The app allows you to identify birds by view or song, quickly and intuitively. Exciting new 3D graphics enable you to view a bird from the exact angle you see it in the field. And the whole range of warbler songs is easily played, compared, and filtered. Breakthrough features from The Warbler Guide book that are included in the app: • Rapid and confident two-step ID process using visual finders and comparison species • The first complete treatment of warbler songs, using a new objective vocabulary • An intuitive visual finder that includes side, 45-degree, and undertail views • Master Pages with detailed ID points • Complete guide to determining the age and sex of warblers with photos of all ages and sexes • Annotated sonograms showing song structure and key ID points • Complete songs, chip calls, and flight calls for all species • Comparison species for making confident visual and audio IDs • Many additional photos to show behavior and reinforce key ID points • Highlighted diagnostic ID points • Color Impression Icons for narrowing down ID of warblers from the briefest glimpses • Behavior and habitat icons Unique new app-only features: • 3D models of birds in all plumages, rotatable and pinch-zoomable to match field experience of a bird • Intuitive, visual, and interactive finders with filters for possible species based on audio and visual criteria chosen by the user • Playback of all songs and vocalizations with sonograms makes study of vocalizations easy • Selectable finder sortings grouped by color, alphabetical order, song type, and taxonomic order • Interactive song finder using objective vocabulary for fast ID of unknown songs • Simultaneous visual and song finders make identifying an unknown warbler even easier • Half-speed song playback allows for easier study of song structure • Comparison species with selectable side, 45 degree, and undertail views • Features 75 3D images • Covers 48 species and 75 plumages • Includes 277 vocalizations, 156 songs, 73 contact calls, and 48 flight calls • Detailed "how to use" tutorial screens Requires iOS 7.0 or later Tom Stephenson’s articles and photos have appeared in Birding and Bird Watcher’s Digest, at Surf-birds.com, and in the Handbook of the Birds of the World. He has guided groups across the United States and Asia. A musician, he has had several Grammy and Academy Award winners as clients, and was director of technology at Roland Corporation. Scott Whittle lives in Cape May, New Jersey, and has twenty years of experience as a professional photographer and educator. He holds an MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York, is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony, and is a onetime New York State Big Year record holder.
What's New
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included. * High-resolution, zoomable, and rotatable 3D models of birds in all plumages, to match field experience of a bird * Detailed "how to use" tutorial screens
Details
- Developer
- Princeton University Press
- Main Category
- Reference
- Version
- 1.1.0
- Version Release
- 2017-01-20
- Initial Release
- 2014-12-21
- Size
- 647 MB
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Price
- USD 12.99
- Languages
- EN
- Bundle ID
- com.princetonUniversityPress.warblerGuide
- Version Rating
- ★ 4.48 (44)
- First Seen
- 2026-05-29
Metadata updated 2026-06-16
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User Reviews
Needs update! Gets locked into portrait view. Information is excellent. But quitting the app is difficult. It cannot be quit if it is only app running.
I’ve used this for years during migration and every time I am amazed at just how useful and well-thought out the identification tools are. I only wish it would work in landscape mode on an iPad, but otherwise just stellar.
This app has incredibly in-depth information, images, and recordings of warblers and is constantly useful during migration. The 3D modeling is fantastic and I hope it’s something other digital guides replicate. Not five stars because of the lack of search functionality. How is this functionality missing?? Also northern parula is missing from the NE for some reason.
Love this app for its 3D comparison of two species - you can turn the 3D models to see the comparison from any angle. My next favorite feature might be the view showing under-tail patterns across the set of warble species.
I just finished a nine day trip in Texas at High Island. This app is helpful for review and study beforehand and quick reference when needed. Five stars cause I love it. I hope for improvement in in the moment bird ID when inputting details in the field.
Great app, you need to update the underside picture of connecticy warbler-the big grey blob from the branch covers up the underside/coverts
I’m no expert but know my way around. My only beef with this app is that using filters it simply will not recognize, at times, a pretty obvious bird based on even a couple of field marks. Today, I had a Pine Warbler during Fall migration in Northern Virginia and I input a yellow throat and wing bars (also tried eye arc), yet it did not return PIWA as a possibility! I don’t understand the algorithms in this app that would exclude PIWA based on that input this locale. I have been using this otherwise superb app for a few years and would not comment if this wasn’t a somewhat frequent problem. That said, the birdsong features, and the 3-dimensional utility is incredible. I would like to see a more robust side-by-side comparison tool (ie select any pair of species).
A great aid in discerning what warbler you were looking at in the field. The comparative chart with other species is valuable. The rotatable 3-D illustration of each warbler is fantastic.
I was excited to discover this app. Instead, I have been disappointed by the poor design of the app and the lack of a search feature. I wanted to look up a warbler that the app considers outside my region. The only way to do this was to change the region so the bird would show up. For the high price of the app, I expect better.
But giving a 2 rating because I hate the location feature. Why not allow a user to scroll through all the species? Inconvenient.
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