BirdsEye Bird Finding Guide
BirdsEye is a simple but essential tool for birders and naturalists of any level, and is finally available for Android! BirdsEye is the ultimate birding field guide that shows you where the birds are, and helps you identify birds around you by showing you what other people are reporting. Identification has never been easier!
BirdsEye also provides essential distribution, behavior and habitat text from noted field guide author Kenn Kaufman and other regional experts to help you find the bird once you get to the right spot. Stunning and detailed photographs from many top birders, bird photographers and guides will help remind you of the field marks you're looking for. BirdsEye is perfect for identifying the birds that are coming to your feeder, preparing for a trip on the other side of the world, or just want to know what is in your local patch.
The free/basic version of BirdsEye gives you instant access to the 100 most common birds in your area, which is great for beginning and casual birders. Paid subscriptions options give you access to every species in your region or worldwide.
Our mission is to promote citizen science projects like eBird. For about the price of a cup of coffee per month, signing up for a subscription helps us continue to improve BirdsEye and pursue our mission. Thank you!!
"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
INSTANT BIRD LISTS
• See customized lists of birds reported recently near you, at any birding hotspot across the world, or any random point on the map!
• Explore the map to see what has been reported at popular birding hotspots like Cape May in North America, Mai Po in Asia, Iguazu Falls in South America and thousands more
• Barcharts showing seasonal abundance for each bird.
• See recent eBird sightings for any species
PERFECT FOR LISTING
• See a list of “needs”
- species recently reported nearby that aren't on your selected life or year list
• Automatically sync your life or year lists with eBird for the ABA area, world, country, state or even county!
TRIP PLANNING
• Find out what birds are being reported near your next destination, so you can target new life birds, study up on birds you aren't familiar with, and be more prepared!• Bird finding tips will help you know where to look, and how to separate it from other similar species.
• Find additional content in the in-app Store for other continents, including sounds, images and bird-finding tips from local experts.
• Support for bird names in multiple languages and local bird names including English (US, UK, Australia, UAE), Español (local bird name options for Argentina, Chile, México, Panamá and more), Finnish, German, Japanese, Chinese, and more
BIRD GUIDE 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 tailored for traveling birders from right inside of BirdsEye.
Current offerings are:
• Bird Sounds of Costa Rica
• Bird Sounds of Brazil
• Bird Sounds of Nicaragua
• Bird Sounds of Venezuela
• Bird Sounds of Mexico
• Bird Sounds of Northern Siberia
• Bird Sounds of Sri Lanka
• Bird Sounds of Australia
• Bird Sounds of Peru
• Bird Sounds of Colombia
• Bird Sounds of Belgium and Holland
We are committed to supporting the birding community and bird conservation through the eBird project. We think they are worth it—now and for the future of birds and their habitats.
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Reviews (26)
Updated review to 5 stars because the app really is great, just still some minor bugs. Crashes when trying to enter multiple items to lists. Crashes when scrolling quickly on Samsung S7. When adding multiple items (using edit mode) and you don't hit Done, if it crashes, all entries lost. Scrolling works well on Pixel 2 XL.
Great concept and memberships offer useful tools, but very glitchy. -Occasionally in Browse Nearby, a species appears, but when I go to the map, there are no pins for that species within 500 miles. -Sometimes House Sparrow will show up on needs list, many with many duplicate photos. -Often the app will say that more species are available with subscriptions, which I pay for. The purchased tab is blank despite having paid for and used the subscription. Others mention similar complaints.
Updated 12/12...well the app is apparently not integrated with payment on the birdseyebirding website. Still no emails returned. Expensive and doesn't work. Updated 12/1. Alerts loading and syncing with ebird list.....Has not loaded alerts for two weeks. Does not sync with ebird. Sent several emails with no response.
So frustrated at this at. It was working so well and was so useful but it appears that the developer is no longer maintaining the app. For $30/yr i would expect functionality to remain up-to-date. They even know this because they have a new warning that this app was developed for an older version of Android. I can't even get logged in any longer even after resetting my password. They will not reply to my open ticket either. Google needs to consider pulling this from the app store.
Good idea when it works, but lately it does not work. Very, very slow and no red pins regarding recent sightings from eBird. I paid for the North America version, How to contact customer service? Can't find it on their web page..
I wish I could sort by region (state, county, etc) or year, but this works great for finding very nearby lifers!
Improprerly grouped on Gstore? This app is for posting lists of birds spotted and already known, rather than assisting user with inentifying birds. A login is required. Should likely not be listed as an app which assists in Identifying birds.
This app crashes every time I open the map to see nearby birds. Figure that out and it could be a great tool for birding.
Tried to sign up for paid and just keep getting error messages. Without subscription, not very useful.
Great reference piece but don't expect to save anything, it's very glitchy. Inferior app all-around.
I love this app for finding birds I've never seen before in the US. I've also used it to ID birds in Kenya, Uganda and Colombia. Looking forward to using it in Ecuador next month.
After installing it I get a message saying it is for older version Androids. I use a Samsung 9 when will the update be, or how do I find an update?
Great app for getting ebird reports whereever you go. Very helpful.
The app does not work for me and I cannot get a refund. Bummer. I was looking forward to using it.
I did enjoy this one but too much space.
I would love to add sightings as and when i see a bird in my area. How do I do that?
? No organization. No clue where to go. Stuck on portrait
Doesn't have bird sounds so not useful
Uses free public data gathered by volunteers and charges you $30 A YEAR to access it. Very bad morals at this company!
not free to use
This is a great app that can find birds very easily, and has a life list that is a little complicated, but it has a search tool for it so you can quickly check it off on your life list. It also has a pretty good bird ID tool to help identify what you see. You do need to pay to see more different birds on the maps though. It is an super awesome app.
I don't know what has changed except that it is working now. Initially it simply didn't work and I was very disappointed. I came back intending to get more specifics for George who kindly offered to help me. Instead I'm reporting that it's working well. The only glitch I found was needing to reload the rare bird list after following one bird to a map and then trying to return to the list. It goes back so far and then gives you blank info. A simple return to the home page gets it going again. Happy.
Was working with ebird but has stopped. Tried Uninstall then reinstall. Does not work at all now. It won't even reach support.
would be nice to finally see all features of apple version, especially those found in membership packages that cost money.
Works great in the field with or without cell service if you load content to your phone before going out. Nice opportunity to contribute photos to the app via the website. Friendly and helpful technical support if needed.
It seems like this app is no longer being supported, as the last update was 2015. I just got a new phone and I'm tired of the constant and intrusive pop ups saying the app is for an older version of Android. Email to the developer is ignored.