ROBERTS BIRD GUIDE 2 iap is based on the book "Roberts Bird Guide (second edition)" with new illustrations, distribution maps and bird texts for 990 Southern African bird species, including new species and names, and new app functions and features. You can download a sample version and use in-purchase for a light or full version.

The FIELD GUIDE has family pages like the book and is easier to use. Swipe or zoom the pages, select a bird, play the sound, add a sighting, view the distribution or text, or open the BIRD PAGE for more detail.

The BIRD GUIDE is a full bird list with direct functions to play the sound, add a sighting, check the distribution, read the text, or open the BIRD PAGE. New features include large thumbs and text, and dual language display of English, Afrikaans, Scientific, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese and Zulu names.

The BIRD PAGES include illustrations, distribution map, photos, bird sounds and sonograms, Roberts Field Guide 2 text and the full Roberts VII handbook text.

ID SEARCH uses your location, habitat, shape and colour of the bird to shortlist possible species.

SIMILAR BIRDS loads a list of birds similar to that selected for identification.

COMPARE BIRDS displays the bird pages side by side for direct comparison.

MY LISTS is a personal list manager that includes a life list and multiple sub-lists, with backup to Cloud and sync to your other IOS devices.

MY LOCATION is an interactive map for location bird lists and finding birding sites.

MY PHOTOS album links your photos to sightings and lists, and displays your photos on the bird pages.

LEARN SOUNDS with auto-play of a bird list and announcements in selected language.

BIRDING SITES includes details of 280 birding sites around Southern Africa.

NEW FEATURES include
+ Gallery view of all media data for selected species.
+ Sightings summary list and map;
+ Dual-language display in bird lists.
+ Bird List status popup reports sightings count, active list and last sighting.
+ Bird Lists with larger thumb images, text and alphabetical index.
+ Sound playback of individual tracks;
+ Full landscape and split screen support for iPad;
+ Zooming of Field Guide pages for iPhone and iPad;
+ Zooming of individual bird page images.
+ Slide menu for improved navigation and linking to all modules;
+ Sharing of sightings to Facebook and Instagram.

The MULTIMEDIA DATA includes
+ all the new bird species and names
+ 265 new field-guide pages
+ 990 individual bird pages plus 13 potential vagrants.
+ new field guide text from the Roberts Bird Guide (second edition)
+ over 3060 new illustrations
+ new colour-coded distribution maps with seasonal status bar
+ over 5870 photos including 500 nest and 700 egg photos
+ over 920 bird sounds
+ over 2000 sonogram images of bird sounds.