chesapeake bay trust

The Trust’s Field Guide to the Chesapeake Bay is unlike any other mobile app on the market today.  Free and available initially to iPhone users and on the Trust's website, the new mobile app is a comprehensive, ecosystem-based guide to the flora and fauna of nine ecologically distinct regions within the Bay’s watershed.  It provides comprehensive coverage of terrestrial vertebrates and deep, representative coverage of invertebrates and plants, based on a system of eco-regional geography, developed and published by the U.S. Forest Service’s Robert Bailey.

Intended primarily for a lay audience of nature-enthusiasts, the guide’s design and content selection maximize its accessibility and ease-of-use, so that users can easily find within the guide the wildlife they are most likely to encounter.   No other field guide can match the capabilities of this new mobile field guide.  (The mobile app also works on the iPad and iTouch.)

 “We are pleased to offer this innovative mobile field guide, free of charge to our friends and supporters and, in fact, all residents of the Chesapeake Bay watershed and anyone who will be traveling, visiting or vacationing around the Chesapeake Bay watershed,” stated Allen Hance, Executive Director of the Chesapeake Bay Trust.  “This is a great way to kick off the summer.  This Bay field guide will be a fun, educational companion for families, kids and nature-lovers on trips anywhere in the region and will provide instant, accurate, and visually compelling information about the natural treasures that the Bay watershed has to offer.” 

The Field Guide to the Chesapeake Bay is among the most interactive of all the field guides on the market.   It provides bird calls, pinchable photos, range maps, identifiable characteristics of animals, and more.  It has advanced search functions and is designed to be visually appealing and user friendly.  All the data has been carefully reviewed and vetted by leading biologists, zoologists and other natural history specialists.