{"id":271,"date":"2010-06-02T18:59:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T22:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/?p=271"},"modified":"2010-06-02T20:16:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T00:16:25","slug":"httppress-princeton-edublog20100602the-birds-of-the-dominican-republic-and-haiti-iphone-app-available-all-proceeds-go-to-disaster-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/2010\/06\/02\/httppress-princeton-edublog20100602the-birds-of-the-dominican-republic-and-haiti-iphone-app-available-all-proceeds-go-to-disaster-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone app for Haitian relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The authors of The Birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, published by Princeton University Press, have made an iPhone\/iPod touch application available for download for $9.95 from the iTunes store.\u00a0 The app has artwork, text and sound files for 58 of the 300 species found on this Caribbean island.\u00a0 All proceeds from the app will go to Partners in Health and to Habitat to Humanity in relief of the devastating earthquakes that wreaked havoc in January.<\/p>\n<p>The idea was the brainchild of Kent McFarland, one of the seven authors of the field guide and a research scientist at the Vermont Center for the Ecosciences in Woodstock, VT.\u00a0 The artwork was provided by the Princeton University Press and the vocalizations were provided by the McCaulay Laboratory of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more information on the app <a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/blog\/2010\/06\/02\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/vtecostudies.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/new-iphone-app-has-high-hopes-for.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-271\" data-postid=\"271\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-271 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors of The Birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, published by Princeton University Press, have made an iPhone\/iPod touch application available for download for $9.95 from the iTunes store.\u00a0 The app has artwork, text and sound files for 58 of the 300 species found on this Caribbean island.\u00a0 All proceeds from the app [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}