When out on adventures and you come across something that your not sure what it is, what its name is, what kind of bird you hear. You can take a photo of it, sketch a picture, then get back home and look it up in a bird book, flower/plant book or a map to see the mountains name.
Nowadays I’ve added these apps to my toolbox as they work off line, and provide me with the ability to work on increasing the knowledge of some of the areas I get to travel through.
- Seek by I Naturalist
- Merlin
- Peakfinder
Been using Seek for some time now.
Seek is part of iNaturalist, a not-for-profit organization. Seek was made by the iNaturalist team with support from the California Academy of Sciences, the National Geographic Society, Our Planet on Netflix, WWF, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, and Visipedia.
Find it works pretty well and can identify things most times. Mostly use it for flowers, fungi, spiders, and other plants. It does struggle at times, however the more you use it the better it seems to get. Even bring it out on walks around home and id a variety of things in the neighborhood.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.inaturalist.seek
Merlin was a newer download for me this year and found it quite handy when seeing what birds were in an area. Offline I’ve found the accuracy goes down a little bit.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.labs.merlinbirdid.app
Peakfinder has a data base of 950 000 peaks. Providing you’ve downloaded the region ahead of time it is quite handy at finding the named peaks in the area. Love putting the camera overlay on the horizon and seeing what is out there.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.peakfinder.area.alps
Let me know if you have any apps you use in the outdoors in the comments section.
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