No hobby or past-time is immune or impervious to digital technology, even
birding. You can buy digital bird song devices to take in the field or listen to at home. There are also several excellent websites on birds, the
Cornell site being one of my favorites. Still, I like to think that
birding will always be a binocular and a field guide, with maybe a
spotting scope thrown in for some jobs. Hope I don't live to see it any differently. I am not opposed to technology by any means, it's just that going afield without it helps me to maintain a natural perspective in an ever more technical world.
Birding, as always, is so much
more than identifying birds.