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Audubon Creates iPhone App

If it squeaks, tweets, growls, or howls in Florida's woods, swamps and streams, there's an app for that.

Coming soon to the iPhone and iPod Touch at your fingertips: Audubon Nature Florida, a comprehensive guide to more than 2,400 species of birds, butterflies, fish, flowers, trees, seashells, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and insects found in the Sunshine State.

Besides color photos, the app includes information and imagery on habitats and natural history. Users can snap photos of wildlife, map them, and store them as an album. The bird app contains audio of individual calls. This is the first app in the Audubon Guides series to include multiple subjects for a single state.

The iPhone nature guide is the brainchild of Charlie Rattigan, a former documentary filmmaker and lifelong bird watcher who now works as creative director for Green Mountain Digital in Woodstock, Vt.

"We think there's an excellent opportunity for young people who grew up with this technology to help reconnect them with nature,'' Rattigan said. "Florida has such a remarkably diverse environment -- from its beautiful beaches to prairies to mangrove swamps. Unless people grow to appreciate it, there won't be enough people speaking out to protect it.'' Read more at the Miami Herald.

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