Larkwire is a complete, game-based learning system for mastering bird sounds—designed for both beginners and advanced birders.

  • Highly efficient, structured practice based on proven cognitive techniques;
  • Identification tips from Michael O'Brien—one of the top "ear birders" in North America;
  • Completely customizable—learn the bird sounds you want to learn.
  • Unprecedented coverage of birdsong variations encountered in the field.

Larkwire can be purchased through iTunes or as a web-based "app" that works on any computer (including many phones and tablets).

Find more birds—and know them better. Birding by ear helps you find more birds—lots more. But it also helps you enter their world in a new way. Birds are constantly using sounds to communicate and express themselves. Larkwire helps you listen in.

Birding will never be the same.

Larkwire is already helping immensely with my ability to bird in the field. And my 7-year-old daughter is asking for "that bird song game on the computer."—I guess you have THREE of us hooked!

—Courtenay Schurman
    Mountaineering Trainer

... More reviews & testimonials
From our Birding the Future blog ...
How Bird Songs Change Over Time
A fascinating study out of the University of Guelph has documented changes over time in the songs of Savannah Sparrows. Studying 800 individual birds over the course of three decades, the researchers found that certain parts of the song did not change, but others were subject to strong pressures of cultural evolution. ... Read more
Distinguishing Subspecies Sounds
We’ll soon be releasing an update to all Larkwire songpacks that will include a number of improvements, among them a more detailed indication of subspecies sounds. For example, below you can see each White-breasted Nuthatch recording is tagged by subspecies; and below that the same for Fox Sparrow. ... Read more

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