Apps: The use of smart phones has simplified many aspects of field work. A smart phone with the right apps can replace your camera, your recorder and your gps! You can save documents like the Site Description Form or your Route Map on your phone and not have to bring the paper version along. Smart phones also increase your level of safety while running your route. It pays to get familiar with these apps before trying to use them for field work.

Rain Alarm - Good app to check on incoming rain before you run your route or to see how close rain is when you are running a route. Available from the App Store (Apple) or Google Play (Android).

Gaia GPS -  This app pretty much eliminates the need for a GPS unit.  It's "Guide Me" feature for Waypoints is similar to the "Go To" function on many GPS devices. It also includes the necessary "precision" measurement. Available from the App Store (Apple) or Google Play (Android).

Voice Record Pro - Handy app for documentation recordings or just to record a memorabe chorus. Available from the App Store (Apple) or Google Play (Android).

Sonocord - For iOS (Apple) only. This app allows you to produce sonograms of a anuran chorus. Sometimes useful for identifying calling species where many species are calling at one time. Not for use on TAMP listening routes (it violates protocol).

SpectralPro Analyzer - For androids. This app allows you to produce sonograms of a anuran chorus. Sometimes useful for identifying calling species where many species are calling at one time. Not for use on TAMP listening routes (it violates protocol).

Raven Lite - This sound editing program from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology is free! You can create and display sonograms, and accurately analyze calls in terms of pulses per second. This can be helpful in distinguishing Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor) calls from those of Cope's Gray Treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis).

Resources:

Atlas of Tennessee Amphibians - This resource is helpful to check which frogs and toad species would be new county records for the county(s) where your route is located. From the home page, select "Next" at the bottom of the page, then under the "Contents" side bar, scroll down to "Species by Order and Family" and select "Order Anura". On the anuran page check each species to see if it's been recorded for your county(s). Be sure and also click the "Click here for an updated distribution map..." link below each species map.

Leaps Frog and Toad ID pages - Identify Tennessee frogs and toads by sight and sound.

Tennessee's Frogs and Toads - The twenty-two species of frogs and toads we have in Tennessee (PDF)

TAMP Visual and Aural Indentification Tips - Helpful tips for the Sight and Sound online quizzes (PDF)

TAMP Online Sound and Sight Quiz Answer Form - A handy form in which to write your answers  (PDF)

Goes Weather Satellite - Really nice animated real-time views of satelite images of the weather.

Cope's Gray Treefrog on Black Willow and rising gibbous Moon montage © 2017 Bob English LEAPS www.leaps.ms

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