In The News
Click here if you'd like to hear BirdWatcher's Digest Podcasts about birdJam. Episode #14 is a new review of birdJam by Bill Thompson III, and Episode #3 features Jeff Gordon discussing birding and technology--including birdJam.
Click here to read a Wall Street Journal front page article featuring birdJam.
Click here to listen to an NPR commentary on how Julie Zickefoose saved a wren fledging with her birdJam iPod.
Click here to read and listen to a National Public Radio interview with Noah Strycker entitled "Birding...with an iPod."
Click here for a new article that includes discussion about birdJam's use at the recent Ute Mountain Mesa Verde Birding Festival.
Don & Lillian Stokes review birdJam: "If you want to learn birds songs, in a whole new super-fast way, get birdJam. To access bird songs on the birdJam, you just push the center white button then run your thumb or finger around the gray dial to quickly scroll up or down the bird lists. It just takes seconds to do this and is much faster than loading and unloading CDs in and out of a CD player and finding the right track."
Mike Bergin at 10,000 birds reviews birdJam: "Everyone knows that the difference between good birding and truly great birding often depends on one’s ability to identify birdsong. Unfortunately, many bird watchers, myself included, are fairly skilled at the watching part but not so hot with the listening and identifying. Help has finally arrived in the form of a brilliant piece of birding gear. The birdJam is a simple, yet elegant solution to an age-old dilemma of bird song identification. To wit, there has never been a greater abundance of resources to help develop one’s familiarity with bird song, from books and CDs to software and websites than exist today yet none of these items are exactly convenient to deploy out there where the birds actually are. A birdJam-enhanced mp3 player, on the other hand, is most assuredly both convenient and portable."
Jeffrey Gordon reviews birdJam in "The Well-Equipped Birder" in May/June 2006 edition of BirdWatcher's Digest: "I think the people at birdJam have provided a valuable service to a large segment of the birding community, making the application of nifty new technology easier and more accessible. From a practical standpoint, their products offer excellent value...when you compare the time savings and convenience versus individually editing each track yourself, it's still a pretty nice deal, saving you hours of rather boring work." Read the complete review: Bird Watcher's Digest - May/June 2006 (PDF),
Andy Griswold, Director of Connecticut Audubon Society EcoTravel, "Thank you so much for saving me hours of editing, providing me the tools I need, and making my job as a tour leader so much more easy. birdJam is a great product, and I recommend it to anyone who is a student of bird song."
Lang Elliott of NatureSound Studio: "Every birder will have to have one of these. Accessing a comprehensive bird song library using birdJam is way more convenient than dealing with multiple CDs--there's really no comparison."
Connie Toops, Birder's World Contributing Editor: "I received my birdJam yesterday, perfectly packaged and right on time. I was so excited to give it a try that I just turned it on and tapped the control wheel to play warblers. I have been chasing a sound in our woods that I have heard before but couldn’t place. Bingo—Cerulean Warbler! I spent quite a bit of time stalking the sound through thick, thorny undergrowth last weekend without ever seeing the bird. Now I am absolutely certain of its identity. Thank you!"
The "Birdfreak Team", April 28, 2007, birdJam review: "While birding today with our local birding club, NCIOS, a waterthrush was discovered and luckily we brought along our birdJam loaded iPod. We quickly found the song for Louisiana Waterthrush and it was a perfect match! birdJam’s software is great because it removes the voice from the start of each track and also allows for easy finding of the bird in question."
Melody Kehl, Birding Guide for Outdoor Adventures in Birding: "birdJam is such a powerful and helpful birding tool that I wouldn't consider going into the field without it."
Sharon Stiteler, author and birdchick.com: "The ease and convenience of using birdJam to organize my Stokes CDs was well worth the price. I definitely like that the songs were automatically organized into obvious playlists. It's so small that I carry my birdJam everywhere." See Sharon's birding blog at http://www.birdchick.com/blog.html
Steve Martin, Ph.D. (ornithology): "As a serious and long-time birder, I value the quick field validation birdJam provides for inconclusive visual identification situations. The powerful combination of auditory cues, along with visual, behavioral and habitat information, addresses uncertainties that might arise."
Rick Hoyer, a WINGS tour leader, commented in the Nov/Dec 2005 edition of Birding Magazine: "Such a great tool. The little iPod and a small external speaker now take the place of a heavy and bulky Sony TCM tape player, a stack of about six cassette tapes, and a mess of laminated cards with the bird names and counter numbers. It now takes no more than 10 seconds for me to pull up any bird voice."
Georgann Schmalz, Birding Adventures, Inc. ornithologist: "Organizing bird songs on an iPod into playlists by families, habitats, hard-to-learn-species, sound-alike species, whatever, is extremely convenient, easy and couldn't be done previously. With playlists, you can match the real song to a select group of songs on your birdJam right in the field."
Backpacker Magazine includes birdJam in it's Hot List of Cool Stuff.
Read How To Learn Bird Songs by Georgann Schmalz. and Bird Song Mnemonics and Phonetics.
Read "iLike my iPod!" by Noah Strycker in ABA Birding Magazine, Nov/Dec 2005, at http://www.noahstrycker.com/birdingipod.pdf
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