United StatesBirdsEye 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.
Does things the eBird app doesn’t and mostly works well
I’ve used this app since before the eBird app came out. I still find it essential for searching eBird observations that are county-specific and rare & notable observations throughout a large area. The eBird app only allows a 30-mile radius so it’s frustrating when you are planning a road trip and you’re not within 30 miles of your destination. Also, BirdsEye shows checklist comments which is essential for access and specific location of target birds. The app has been quite slow to load in the last few months but still works if you are patient. In short, this is a very useful app that i hope will continue b being updated and improved and i plan to keep using.
United StatesFrustrating
Every third or fourth time I open the app ( paid version) it needs to update. Not helpful when you’re in the field waiting for this to complete
United StatesBuggy abandonware
Last update was over 3 years ago, and it shows. The app is buggy, not accurate, looks dated, and costs too much when you take into account it has been this long between updates. The eBird app does MOST of what this app does for FREE…and does those things correctly. After using it for a bit, I find this app’s workflows to be very unintuitive. And there are way too many un-ending spinners. It seems to always want to download sightings, rather than simply updating them…and this process takes a minute or two every few times you open the app. For $60/year, I need to see the developer cares about the app with regular updates and customer support responses rather than just sitting back and collecting royalties.
United StatesCriticisms justified?
I need to the app, as I am to birding, in the last year. I generally like the app and have found it useful, but it can be frustrating to use, especially when it forgets that I’ve already purchased packages. If, as Danny Sloan right in his review two years ago, a few photographers are manipulating the rating so that possibly better photographs than their own are used for certain birds, this is a problem. Is also a problem if the developer is unresponsive to help requests, as some reviewers complain. I have not tested this, but, as it has been my experience with many apps, I find the reviews that mention this to me credible. Lastly, if the app is not regularly updated as it should be to be kept current, that’s really unacceptable for a paid app.
United StatesVery Helpful
I really enjoy the App. It has helped me find birds I wouldn’t have without it. It was especially helpful in planning trips - until the “Browse By Location” stopped being updated about a month ago. I really used that function a lot. I hope it is fixed soon.
United StatesDisappointing
This app doesn’t do anything. It just keeps spinning the gear cog wheel
United StatesHandy but needs update
This app is a useful tool for bird funding but is badly out of date. It does not include eBird taxonomy updates and doesn't seem to properly sync with my eBird life list. Questions posted to their support forum go unanswered. I know this is not a big moneymaker but if they're charging $20/year they should make periodic updates.
United States
This version includes bugs fixes and performance improvements. Happy birding!
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