United StatesThe Dragonfly ID app is a comprehensive and easy-to-use resource to find and identify dragonflies and damselflies across the US and Canada. Geared towards both the avid dragonfly-watcher, and beginners, Dragonfly ID will help you find spots to look for dragonflies near you, help you identify the dragonflies and damselflies you see in the field, and learn more about the species you find. Additionally, Dragonfly ID enables users to easily view and submit Odonata sightings from the field. This important citizen science project enhance our understanding of Odonata distributions and abundances. DISCOVER SPECIES AROUND YOU • View species lists for any location in the US or Canada based on sightings in the OdonataCentral database • Filter to show recent sightings, or for any month(s) of the year • Bar charts of seasonal abundance built from the OdonataCentral database of sightings • Maps of recent sightings from OdonataCentral LEARN • Use Smart Search to quickly identify a species by color, size and habitat • Read descriptive text to help confirm the identification (contact us if you'd like to help!) • View the crowd-sourced gallery of images (contribute your photos at birdseye.photo/dragonflies) ENGAGE • Submit dragonfly sightings to OdonataCentral directly from the app (BUT SEE NOTE BELOW) • Track your life list via the app for any region • Sign in with an OdonataCentral account to see your sightings populate your life lists NOTE: this first release of sighting submission has MAJOR limitations: • Sightings cannot yet be edited after submission. We are working on it and it should be just a matter of a few weeks. In the meanwhile let us know if a sighting urgently needs to be edited or deleted. • Currently sightings do NOT go to OdonataCentral, but they will at some point in the future (~1 year?). In the meanwhile they will be visible within the app in a different color than regular OC sightings. • Sightings submitted through the app are NOT vetted by OC experts Dragonfly ID is a collaboration between BirdsEye and the folks at OdonataCentral and the Xerces Society with special thanks to the membership of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas and users of OdonataCentral, the Migratory Dragonfly Partnership, and PondWatch for their data contributions.
Good app but freezes
I like using this app to look for dragonflies and damselflies in my area but it often freezes and won’t work unless I leave it alone for some time or delete and reinstall.
United StatesLots of potential, great info!
There are TONS is species of dragonflies in the world, and this app has excellent information for someone to learn about each species. However, as an “ID (identification)” app, there needs to be some improvements made: when one needs sees a dragonfly in the wild and would like to identify it, you would seemingly need to scroll through all of the species until you found a picture that matches what you saw. Maybe the developers can put in some kind of ID features from plant- identification apps or bird-identification apps, such as an Identification Engine/Interface: wing markings, abdomen/tail markings/color, thorax, location, etc….. or maybe even a picture identification feature.
United StatesHelpful for novices
Very helpful app for those of us who need some ID help!
United StatesCJ
I guess it’s a good app. Unfortunately I have forgotten my password to log into the website. I have tried many times to have it send me a link but it won’t. So the app doesn’t do me much good.
United StatesLove it.
Simple, precise identification. No fuss. Love it.
United StatesWas Very Helpful
I’m still (now after 3 years) hoping for restoration of the ability to look at records by specific location as detailed in my 3 star review below. That was *very* useful to me. The app remains minimally useful for my purposes but I’m disappointed in the lack of upgrades these past three years and the missing functionality. I wish I had not upgraded to version 2. *** My review below (which was rated 5 stars)was in reference to the version before the major update more than a year ago. The older version was more useful for me. In particular what I have been missing in this version for the past year+ has been the ability to look at any destination I might be traveling to and then look at locations in that area where users have reported dragonflies, click on that location and see what had been seen there filtered by timeframe (ie if I’m going to be there in mid-June reports from September are almost certainly not relevant). In the current version since the revision it is no longer possible to look at a location to see what dragonflies have been found there. One must start by choosing a species to see where it has been found, but even then it is not possible to see what other species may have been found at the same location without going back to the list of species, choosing a different species and looking at its locations. The old version was very useful for looking at the big picture of what might be flying in a given area at the time of a future trip so I could plan my side excursions for dragonfly outings when attending a class reunion, for example. The app is no longer very useful for that and I use it much less than I used to. ****** Dragonfly ID has helped me have a much more productive year in terms of whittling away at some of my Lifelist goals. I've been able to find and photograph several speciesi would not otherwise have found on my travels but also not far from home. It's not perfect but a very useful tool and still being developed so I'm looking forward to additional enhancements!
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