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eBird by Cornell Lab

eBird by Cornell Lab

Everyone
Rating
V2.17
Version
500k+
Installs
3.70
534 + Reviews
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18%
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11%
3
10%
4
11%
5
51%

Review By AppsWm

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Magic Points: Discovering the App's Essence

This app transforms birdwatching into an interactive and joyful experience. It offers a vast database of bird information, coupled with tools for recording sightings and contributing to citizen science. Let's explore its magical elements:

Extensive Bird Database

The core magic lies in the sheer volume of bird information available. Details on identification, songs, and habitats bring joy to learning.

Interactive Sightings Log

Logging sightings becomes a delightful game, adding a layer of fun to each birdwatching adventure. Contributes to valuable data collection.

Delight Features: Spotlighting Wonder Elements

Delight comes from the seamless integration of technology and nature. Highlighted are the wonder-inducing features:

  • Real-time Location Tracking: Making it incredibly easy to pinpoint bird sightings.
  • Audio Recordings: Matching bird calls adds an auditory dimension that deepens delight.
  • Community Sharing: Sharing sightings connects you with a global community of bird enthusiasts, amplifying joy through shared experiences.

Happiness Paths: Transformative Aspects

This app offers transformative paths to happiness through connection with nature. Its ability to educate, engage, and connect creates genuine happiness.

Educational Impact

The app’s educational resources are a happiness factor. Users learn while enjoying nature.

Wonder Moments: Creating Joyful Moments

Wonder moments arise from spontaneous discoveries. The following enhance these moments:

  1. Unexpected Rare Bird Sightings: When a rare bird is spotted and identified through the app, the moment is pure wonder.
  2. Community Spotting Alerts: Alerts about local sightings heighten anticipation and joy.

Joy Transformations: Overall Magical Value

The overall magical value is derived from the app’s ability to transform a simple walk in the park into a rich, engaging, and educational adventure.

Pros:
  • Extensive database
  • User-friendly interface
  • Community engagement
Cons:
  • Potential battery drain
  • Dependency on GPS signal

Final Verdict

This app excels at transforming ordinary moments into extraordinary experiences, making it a worthwhile addition to any bird lover's toolkit. Its unique combination of citizen science, educational resources, and community engagement create a strong positive impact on the user’s experience, making it an enchanting digital companion.

Description

eBird Mobile makes it easy to record the birds you see in the field, and seamlessly link these observations with eBird--a global online database of bird records used by hundreds of thousands of birders around the world. This free resource makes it easy to keep track of what you see, while making your data openly available for scientific research, education, and conservation. eBird Mobile is the only app that passes information directly from the Android device to your eBird account on the web. - Track your bird sightings from anywhere in the world. - View your Life, Year, and Month lists for any region or nearby location. - Full global taxonomy based on The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. - Common names available in languages and regional versions (e.g., Portuguese names in Brazil or in Portugal). - Checklists customized for your location and time of year, showing most likely species based on eBird data. - Real-time feedback on whether a sighting is rare in the area. - Quick entry tools to make note-taking faster than ever before. - GPS enabled location plotting and tracking options. - Map tools that show you hundreds of thousands of eBird Hotspots. - Full offline functionality, enabling use in places with limited or no Internet connection. - Entire app translated to Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Khmer, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese (Simplified), and Chinese (Traditional).

All Versions

V3.1.3

Updated: 2024-11-19

24.85 MB

V2.17

Updated: 2024-2-26

28.24 MB

V2.16

Updated: 2024-1-17

28.14 MB

V2.15.4

Updated: 2023-11-20

27.96 MB

V2.15.3

Updated: 2023-10-4

28.04 MB

V2.15.2

Updated: 2023-8-29

28.02 MB

V2.15.1

Updated: 2023-8-9

28.05 MB

V2.15

Updated: 2023-7-25

27.99 MB

V2.14

Updated: 2023-7-5

27.64 MB

V2.13.2

Updated: 2023-3-15

26.02 MB

V2.11.1

Updated: 2022-11-10

25.59 MB

Summary Of User Reviews

Rafn Sig,
Rafn Sig,
February 11, 2026
A decent app. The usages is great but the app can use some refinement. Often lagging and slow to fetch information. It is far less usable than the web, like why can I only add images on the web. Same issue with subspecies, only on the web. Adding easy way to mark sexes and pairs should not be a difficult thing to add as well.
Jennifer Curtis
Jennifer Curtis
February 25, 2026
This app is intrusive and awkward to use. After correctly ID’ing a bird, it pulls you into a cluttered interface with a massive list where the species you need is never easy to find. It forces you to start a list, wasting time and interrupting the actual ID process. Switching between apps is clunky and frustrating. Overall, it slows you down instead of helping—more hassle than value.
fototaker Tony
fototaker Tony
January 29, 2026
Great for reporting birds. Love the route tracking ability. Plus the newly updated ability to correct the route recorded! Everytime we go ANYwhere, I use the app because it can help us quickly identify the bird we hear. Unfortunately, the bird seems to be aware we are somehow "recording" their song, and often they become quiet or fly off.