BirdBeat Announces its First Annual Big*Year and Invites Everyone to Join Them

    ENCINITAS, CA, December 30, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- BirdBeat announces its First Annual Big*Year and invites everyone to join them.

This Big*Year offers a twist on the usual in that sightings will be submitted via each participant's own BirdBeat iField Sketches created and used to capture characteristics, relevant field data and personal recollections of their songbird sightings in 2012.

EVENT ELEMENTS INCLUDE:

Monthly and Overall Winners

BirdBeat Birder's iField Notebook App
... Preformatted templates
... Capture color and pattern markings in minutes
... Record environmental and behavioral data in seconds
... Personal iField Notebook saves user's sketches and data
... Share via email and Facebook

"Members Only" info and benefits for registrants

Big*Year forum and BirdBeat community ID assistance

Special BirdBeat Field Correspondent - HERCULE PARROT (pronounced Pear-o) reports his findings and musings in his BirdBeat Big*Year blog, "NEWS OF THE YEAR". A renowned bird detective with a fancy for fine art and berry aperitifs, Parrot leads the community in deciphering clues to discover the identity of mysterious sightings and happenings along the way.

BirdBeat Birder's iField Notebook is an electronic field notebook/sketchbook that allows anyone - with or without artistic skills - to quickly and accurately capture key color and pattern information about 300 different songbirds. Using preformatted (topographic) templates, check boxes and slide menus, users can easily and swiftly record physical characteristics as well as environmental & behavioral data. And the devices' onboard GPS and timing functions can pinpoint locations, dates and times of users' bird sightings.

BirdBeat Birder's iField Notebook - Songbird Edition is available in the iTunes App Store now.

BirdBeat's Songbird Edition is the first in an upcoming series of apps that will allow you to create iField Sketches and record field data for all North American Birds. Future BirdBeat releases include Backyard Birds, Waterfowl, Birds of Prey, Shorebirds/Marsh Birds, Wading Birds, Seabirds, Game Birds, and a Premium North American Birds Edition that will include a predictive search database.

More information about BirdBeat Birder's iField Notebook can be found on BirdBeat's App Page in iTunes, at BirdBeat.com, BirdBeatTube, the BirdBeat Fan Page, and @BirdBeat.

Please direct your inquiries to Celesd at 760.492.3377, or via email at [email protected].

BirdBeat Birder's iField Notebook
A Heather KiNCH Studio Brand - Patent Pending

BirdBeat is a brand of Heather KiNCH Studio, LLC, a creative services company formed in 2001 by artist and photographer, Heather Kinch, and business manager, Celesd F. Willoughby. Other HKS brands include OpinionatedPets.com, a gift company for pet lovers and their friends (where the critters are in charge...and they know it!), and Heather KiNCH Studio, focused on fine art bird photography.

For more information, please contact Celesd at 760.492.3377 or via email at [email protected].

Website: http://birdbeat.com
Big*Year 2012: http://birdbeat.com/first-annual-big-year-2012/

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