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Peterson is all about outdoors. It's about getting out and discovering things you didn't know before. It's about challenging yourself to observe more, listen better, notice the details in the big picture. Peterson. It's the first name you turn to when you go outside.
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Our Peterson Feeder Birds app gives you more information on more species (160 birds) with more features than many paid electronic bird guides. And, it's totally free!
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Not only do we think our apps are the best, but everyone else does too! In January 2012, over 1.5 million people cast their votes to determine the best apps of 2011. Peterson Birds won the coveted Best App Ever award for outdoors apps.
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For over 75 years, editors at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt have revised and polished Roger Tory Peterson's classic guide to North American birds, with a single goal: make it easier to identify birds.
Peterson apps take this magnificent heritage and update it for the mobile world. Our apps take the content, organization, and design from the best-selling Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, and add an intuitive interface, playable bird songs, life lists, sightings, eBird data, and so much more.
Peterson Birds is the easiest to use and most effective mobile field guide available on iOS.
Peterson apps take this magnificent heritage and update it for the mobile world. Our apps take the content, organization, and design from the best-selling Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, and add an intuitive interface, playable bird songs, life lists, sightings, eBird data, and so much more.
Peterson Birds is the easiest to use and most effective mobile field guide available on iOS.
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"Peterson Birds of North America for iOS a must for bird watchers" Appolicious.com (Yahoo)
Interview with Leo Laporte for TWiT.tv's iPad Today show (26:20 mark)
"If you have an iPad you should strongly consider this app…" The Birder's Diary
"The Peterson Birds of North America app has given itself a delicate mission: to preserve the integrity and ease of use of the 75-year old grandaddy of modern printed field guides and to do so without getting all sentimental or stodgy about it. It succeeds pretty well." Bird Watcher's Digest Magazine
"After several months of using the Peterson Bird of North America on both the iPod Touch and iPad, I have come to the conclusion that this is the slickest bird guide out there.” Nemesis Bird Blog
"Appweavers has done a stunningly good job ... and I would feel confident using this app in the field." BirdingIsFun.com
"Appweavers, Inc. hit a home run with their version of the Peterson Birds of North America iPad app." MyMac.com
Our support forum is a great place to find out what other people are doing with their Peterson app. Join the conversation and get a little help along the way. We're always keeping an eye on forum activity and we answer questions quickly and courteously.
We also have a knowledge base with articles on topics that come up frequently on the forum. If you noticed, there's a blue help tab at the top right of this page.
We also have a knowledge base with articles on topics that come up frequently on the forum. If you noticed, there's a blue help tab at the top right of this page.
Tapping or clicking the tab takes you straight to the knowledge base. You can post new questions, too.
About Appweavers, Inc.
Peterson apps are developed by Appweavers, Inc. under exclusive license with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publishers of the Peterson field guides in print.
For more information about Appweavers, please visit the Appweavevers.com website.
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