eBird

Great works perfect

It has about ALL of the species per country!! But it would be nice if they added a little illustration or pictures

I was so excites that at last they developed an ebird app for iPhone, but it has nothing to do with the website. The app only let you upload a new checklist. You can't see your previous checklists, or see recent checklists posted. Or any other option in the website. Glad that this app was created, but needs a lot of work to resemble the website. Im gonna still use the website on my iPhone for now.

This is why I’ve stopped donating $ to them. They use it to make things worse. They just changed things (again)—Why?!? They always take a good thing and try to mess it up. Have they brought back the daily trip report? No!! Used to be able to do that on the mobile app—no longer. Not sure why this latest change—besides making things confusing, I haven’t been able to detect a change in functionality.

I admit, this app has come a long way since the beginning, but even in 2024, it’s still lacking basic functionality, so I removed 3 stars from my original review. I use eBird for my job, so I’m using it multiple times per day when I’m in the field. I canNOT stand the fact that I have to toggle between numbers and letters every single time I want to enter the species! It should *always* start with letters! I can’t upload media in the app; instead, I have to submit a checklist through the app then take the extra step to go to ebird.org to add media. Why?? It is also infuriating that I can’t import IDs from Merlin. Instead, I have to switch back and forth between the two, which is ridiculous in 2024. Come on, Cornell, you’re sitting on piles of money most scientists can only dream of, there’s NO reason for this app to be so primitive. It’s obvious that you’ve been pouring money into Merlin, how about using some of it to improve the app at the heart of everything you’re trying to do.

Bird pack downloads are ridiculously slow - it takes several minutes to DL a single 2-4MB file; it should be a few seconds. There is no button for “update all my packs”. There is no composite US country pack. There is no auto-update option for bird packs. The bird counting interface is counterintuitive and really needs context sensitive assistance. Search interface sometimes stops working properly, requiring app restart. The bird reference info has way too few photos of birds in flight as seen from below. Most of these issues have existed for a couple of years or more, so it’s not clear whether Cornell realizes they are problems, or whether they lack the right devs to address them.

Reading some of the reviews, I agree it seems odd what you can’t do with the app that you can do on line or with Merlin. But I do find it better in fact to keep my list running in one app and using another to detect bird song.

I love the app but now since it was updated lost all the images and search function no longer working like when I try to view a bird that I captured it keeps taking me to the settings for bird packs which I had already installed and I don't know what changed or how to get it back to the way it was before it updated :(

Having to flip back and forth between the two apps to identify first then track the bird is silly. Please merge apps.

tsp on pin dont give site name, eg name of paerk needed for plan vacation trails to visit