BirdsEye Bird Finding Guide app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 5600 ratings )

Travel Reference Education
Developer: Birds In The Hand, LLC

Free

Current version: 2.6.1, last update: 3 years ago
First release : 02 Dec 2009
App size: 19.56 Mb

BirdsEye is a unique and powerful tool that helps you discover the birds around you and find the birds you want to see. See more birds with BirdsEye!

BirdsEye is the perfect tool for birders of any level, naturalists and educators. The free version of BirdsEye also includes stunning and detailed photographs from many top birders, bird photographers and guides.

"Best invention for birding since binoculars"... Kenn Kaufman, author of the famed Kaufman Field Guides to Birds of North America

"A landmark in birding"… John Fitzpatrick, Director, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

BirdsEye is great for beginning and intermediate birders as a free download. Explore the 100 most common birds near you (or for any spot on earth), and learn about the birds you are most likely to see in your yard or the local park.

When you are ready to see more, paid subscriptions give you access to every countable species in your region or worldwide.

Features:

INSTANT BIRD LISTS
• See customized lists of birds reported recently near you, at birding hotspots, or any random point on earth!
• Sea seasonal abundance for each bird for that location
• View recent eBird sightings and get driving directions to each one

INCREASE YOUR LIFE LIST
• See a list of “needs” - species recently reported nearby that arent on your selected life or year list
• Reports of rare and notable birds in your area and across the ABA region
• Automatically sync your life or year lists with eBird for the ABA area, world, country, state or even county!

TRIP PLANNING
• Find additional content in the Bird Guide Store for other continents, including sounds, images and bird-finding tips from local experts.
• Set Favorite Locations for your destinations to scope out recent sightings
• Get driving directions right to any hotspot or sighting
• Support for bird names in several languages

STORE
We have partnered with Birdsounds.nl, the premier online store selling bird sounds packages for many regions around the world. Access these extensive collections of bird songs from right inside of BirdsEye.

Currently available sound packages include:
Bird Sounds of Costa Rica, Brazil, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Mexico, Northern Siberia, Sri Lanka, Australia, Peru, Colombia, Belgium and Holland, and Malaysia!

Most BirdsEye functionality is available to all of our users. Certain premium features require a regional or world membership to unlock their full potential. Premium features include:
• More checklists for species on the Rare Bird Alert
• Rare Bird Alert - see the latest reported ABA rarities and eBird checklist
• Search for Notables up to 250 miles from current location
• Unlimited Favorite Locations
• View Bird List for any month of the year
• Downloading content for offline use

A NOTE ON MEMBERSHIPS: In addition to regional memberships, we offer a World membership that gives you access to all of the birds on earth and several other features. Your membership helps pay for our ongoing efforts to create the most innovative and powerful birding apps in the world. We do not and have never earned a profit on the sale of this app, but do it to support the birding community. Memberships, donations and the contributions of photos help us keep making BirdsEye better.

To get your membership, just launch BirdsEye and go to the Store. Youll see a membership option. The first monthly payment will be charged to your iTunes Account when you confirm your purchase.

Your BIRDSEYE memberships and subscriptions renew each month and your iTunes account will be charged automatically. You can turn off auto-renew at any point from your iTunes account settings. See birdseyebirding.com/privacy for more information.

We are committed to supporting the birding community and bird conservation through the eBird project. Our goal is to encourage participation through BirdsEye.

Pros and cons of BirdsEye Bird Finding Guide app for iPhone and iPad

BirdsEye Bird Finding Guide app good for

Wow! I bought this app within 5 minutes of hearing about it, and have not regretted it in the least. Many of the major hotspots show recent activity, and the fact that the app lists birds that have been seen in an area within the last 3 years is extremely valuable -- if the bird was there before, it might be there again. With descriptions of the habitat type the bird prefers, quality recordings of their calls, and a "life list" built right in that can be used to narrow down recent sightings of birds you have *not* seen yet, Id be willing to say this has become the most useful app on my iPhone, and if you are a birder, it could very well be on yours too. Thank you, BirdsEye.

Photographs are invaluable aid to identification. Songs and calls are beautiful. Locator is awesome. This is absolutely worth the money. The best app I have purchased by far. I love it almost as much as I love birds.

This has been really handy - both for narrowing down what bird Im looking at, and for getting an idea what I might see before I go out. Its made identification easier, and its fantastic for up-to-date info on the birds in an area. Great stuff!

Took this app on a vacation to Florida. Used it in my hotel room to load up local sightings of birds I was interested in, as well as birding hot spots. With the information loaded, I used my gps to navigate to these locations. I was able to visit numerous hot spots that I otherwise wouldnt have known about. I also found the elusive scrub jay I was seeking. Lastly, it saved me from wasting efforts pursuing species that just werent being seen in the area. Definitely improved my birding vacation experiences and added to my life list

Great app! Use it all the time for birding; especially useful in more populated areas. It can sometimes be slow to load sightings or hotspots on map view. This version is the same as the pre-membership one.

I dont like the way it works on my iPad. It should turn when you tilt the screen.

Some bad moments

I can find more accurate information online for free. A big disappointment...

I purchased an earlier version of BirdsEye. When I downloaded the newest version, the one available here, I found I had lost functionality. To get back the Hotspot data I use regularly, I must pay $4.99 per month. I believe this is a major ripoff, since I paid already for features now removed. I enjoyed an elegant organization of ebird data, and now its gone. I protest. I hate. Mild mannered birder gets mad! This is just an awful direction for this formerly wonderful app. 1 Star means I hate it.

Provides a great tool for finding birds! I use this App everyday. Great for researching birds in any area in the US, including giving you directions from your current location to the bird!

This ap has lots of great features but I have found it to be a bit confusing to navigate. Still havent figured out how to make different lists at different locations. Although I have an account my sightings dont seem to show up on the map. The Texas OS Icon opens and then immediately closes. Ive been checking for an update for a few months but there hasnt been one. I think it has potential but needs some work. Ill keep using it - for now

This is a brilliant app, uniquely useful to locate both birds and birding hotspots. Unfortunately the latest version crashes almost every time I open it, requiring me to restart my iPhone. Ive re-installed multiple times and gotten guidance from BirdsEye technical support. Their final suggestion was that I get a newer iPhone!!! If the latest version of the app does not work on an iPhone4, they should make the former version of the software available. My score of 2 reflects the great features of the app before the update (5) and the utter impossibility of getting it to run on my phone now (1).

I like finding new birds wherever I go, and no other app helps me as much as BirdsEye.

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