Name: BirdsEye Bird Finding Guide
Rating: 4 (97 reviews)

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BirdsEye Bird Finding Guide

Birds In The Hand, LLC

Released: 2009-12-02

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Version 2.6.1

Free 0%

Version 2.6.1

Released: 2009-12-02

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Description

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 aren't 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. You'll 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.

What's New in Version 2.6.1

This version includes bugs fixes and performance improvements. Happy birding!

Seller

Name

Birds in the Hand, LLC

URL

http://www.birdseyebirding.com/

Information

Developer

Birds In The Hand, LLC

Version

2.6.1

Size

20.5 MB

Game Center

VPP Device Licensing

Yes

Rating

Rated: 4+

Compatibility

iOS 12.0 or later

Devices

iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air4, iPad Air4Cellular, iPad EighthGen, iPad EighthGenCellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)

Languages

English, Spanish

App Store: Customer Ratings

Ratings & Reviews

4.0 of 5 (97 Ratings)

App Store: Customer Reviews

2020-04-12

I use it every day!

Very useful tool to know rapidly what is around or what is usually seen for a month in any area!

Favorite location feature is awsome as well.

The only downside I see is that maps are not all displaying all sightings within 30 days. It seems like the link to eBird maps is not always fully efficient in this regard.

Thank you to the Dev team for this tool!

Gilbert Bouchard

Rimouski, QC Canada

2020-01-23

Not a good option!

I made the mistake of purchasing the world membership for 1 year as we are travelling for the next year but the app is awful. It is not user friendly at all; once you purchase a membership you need to download the info to have offline (as expected) but the file is HUGE - it takes HOURS to download and even then when I would try to use it; the app would tell me it needs to download more. On a solid wifi connect I let it download for 3hrs and it still wasn’t complete. I am disappointed I wasted the money for the year membership and wish I could get my purchase back, especially since I will be deleting the app.

2019-08-16

My favourite app but could do more

Despite being my most expensive app, it is also my favourite. I use it on trips all over the world and it helps to know what is around, to target and find species I have never seen and to make identifications by narrowing the options and showing images. It is also a great tool for just getting into interesting areas of high diversity - more useful than hotspots as it can more quickly indicate the habitats and specialties for a site. IMO, there is one addition that would make this app so much better and give it 5 stars. I would like to be able to access data for one month as is now available or to access all available data for the given area being sampled. Many places I visit have little eBird activity and being able to tap the database for all records would vastly improve the bird finding potential of the app. I find I have to search the eBird website for taxa of interest when I am in sparsely birded areas and this is tedious and defeats the purpose of BirdsEye. If this is an issue with server time and app performance, it could be limited to a certain number of records (a threshold could be set where it won’t pick up all data if this is limiting). However, being able to toggle this on and off would be amazing. Users would be aware that searches are slower if searching the entire database and likely use this sparingly.

2019-07-04

Can't download offline content - Horrible App

This app is a nice idea but downloads for offline content take forever (hours) and even if you go through the process and finally get everything, you'll have to do it more than once. You'll be out in the field looking something up and suddenly be directed back to the membership page to download it AGAIN. Awful execution, developers, not worth your time or money.

2019-05-27

Limited

This app has potential with some great features, but the bird list is so limited it’s not very useful in North America. I could not find in the app common birds like the black-capped chickadee, mourning dove, cedar waxwing, and others. Perhaps the paid version gives access to more birds, but the free version is simply not worth it when so many birds are missing.

2019-04-27

Great Birding Log

Love the fact that I can create a list as I go, contribute to bird data for the benefit of the birds and other birders. I would give it a 5 if it was integrated within the EBird application so I didn’t have to open two apps. Brilliant App, I love it

2018-09-29

Good, useful, helpful

I got this app when I first started birding with any degree of seriousness.

It has proved terrifically useful, helpful and most often spot/on in helping me do it better.

Well worth the cost and the renewal costs.

2017-11-30

Great for birders

Love it. I plan outings with it. Great help in finding good birding sites. I can't find it to add on my new iPad.

2017-06-02

Totally worthwhile!

This is incredibly useful! I use it all the time in EVERY location I visit!

It helps me find what is interesting in the locations I visit.

In addition, having access, handily, to calls, and photographs makes it especially with bio

2017-04-14

Could use an update on features

The smart search feature could use improving, needs more criteria. Also, noticed you can't set different parameters between notable and rare species in the rare bird alerts section. Hope an update soon, wondering when since it's been over a year since 2015, especially when you're paying a monthly membership.

2017-03-06

Great app!

Updates info on the ground quickly. Many ppl contributing. Great way to choose your walk for the day.

2016-12-04

For birding enthusiasts

Loaded with features to help identify birds and monitor your life list. I love the map feature which shows actual sightings of birds.

2016-08-06

Continues to get better!

I like the fact that there is still the need for data, sounds & photos for some species. It gives us all the opportunity to contribute and be citizen scientists.

2016-07-23

One of the most useful birding apps that exists.

I use it on every birding trip I take, locally or abroad.

2016-04-11

Very Helpful

An excellent app all around. Particularly useful for finding new birds when travelling.

2016-02-10

A handy resource

The pictures may be too large in file size for a web app. When I use it, it drains my data very fast. However an excellent resource!

2016-01-25

Birdseye

My Favourite bird app.

2016-01-01

Great Tool

Great for keeping track of life list and looking for birding activity close to a location

2015-11-14

Useful

Version 2.4 works great on my iPhone 6

2015-11-08

Un autre outil

Un bel outil pour les ornithologues.

2015-09-05

Impressive but tricky

I have the e-bird apps for North America, South America (paid) and the World (paid). How do I sync these with the world app, so that I can get an accurate number of bird sightings, to keep track of my numbers.

Probably, I have to go onto my laptop, but that is annoying as I should be able to sync across my devices and across my different apps.

If you sell an app, then make it useable without the need for a laptop.

Your new picture id format does not work on my Apple devices. You can't crop the downloaded photo so can't progress to the next step in the progress. Hopefully that will be fixed as you can't bring your laptop into the field.

2015-04-10

A very useful app.

I live in an area well-populated by birders so lots of information to be had on this app. Navigation is simple and one just has to remember that, as it is based on ebird reports, that it's not going to be 100% accurate in terms of sighting reports.

2015-03-14

Could be better

I don't like the way it works on my iPad. It should turn when you tilt the screen.

2015-01-04

Fantastic birding tool

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.

2014-05-09

BirdsEye Takes Major Step Back

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 it's 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'.

2011-08-31

Wish I could get a refund

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

2011-03-05

Great app - even with an itouch

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 wouldn't have known about. I also found the elusive scrub jay I was seeking. Lastly, it saved me from wasting efforts pursuing species that just weren't being seen in the area. Definitely improved my birding vacation experiences and added to my life list

2010-08-31

Excellent birding tool!

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

2010-02-12

Incredible

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.

2009-12-11

Invaluable!

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, I'd 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.