About this game

Pick a walk: backyard and park, bush and rainforest, wetland and coast, outback and grassland, or all of Australia. Each walk is ten birds you could see in that kind of place.

A bird appears in a pair of binoculars, badly out of focus. It sharpens over seven seconds. Pick its name from four. Name it while it's still blurry for three stars, half sharp for two, and sharp for one. Press Focus now to see it sharp straight away.

The wrong names aren't random. They are the birds people really mix it up with: the magpie with the Pied Butcherbird and the Magpie-lark, the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo with the Little Corella, the two kookaburras. A right answer shows what to look for, its call and a fact. A wrong answer puts the two birds side by side and says how to tell them apart.

Birds you get wrong turn up more often on later walks. Practise my mix-ups gives you just those birds, until you've named each one twice in a row.

The field guide has a page for every bird: what it looks like, its call, where it lives, a fact, and how to tell it from its look-alikes. Results stay on the device.

Good for

• A unit on Australian animals or living things in the local area
• Getting ready for a bird count or a nature walk around the school
• A quiz on the board, with the class calling out the bird