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HKBirds: Birds of Hong Kong app for iPhone and iPad


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Education Reference
Developer: The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society
Free
Current version: 1.0, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 28 Jun 2021
App size: 641.21 Mb

The bird information and sighting recording app in Hong Kong that allows you to access multimedia information of common birds of Hong Kong for free.

The App "HKBirds: Birds of Hong Kong" is jointly developed by School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society, under the 2020/2021 project titled "From Flat Screen to Nature via Birding" supported by the HKU Knowledge Exchange Fund.

App Features:
* Hong Kong Bird information from authoritative source
* Over 240 bird species seen in Hong Kong
* Over 650 photographs taken in Hong Kong
* Over 80 bird calls
* Bird call visualization by waveform and spectrogram
* Internet connection is not needed for information access
* Supports English and Traditional Chinese
* Supports both iPhone and iPad
* Supports both light and dark mode
* Can search birds by their common names, scientific names and other names
* Can filter bird list by family, IUCN status, principal status, habitat and size
* Can sort bird list by their common names, family names, scientific names and taxonomic order
* Can record your sightings
* General tips and information about bird watching
* Ad-free

*** Note that the app contains hundreds of media files and is large in size (about 680 MB). It does not require an Internet connection to access its database. Enough storage space is therefore required.