eBird

バージョンアップしたら、鳥の種名が英語になり使いづらくなりました。設定を日本語にしても種名だけかわりません。以前のバージョンでは日本語でしたので改善をお願いします。よろしくお願いします。

標準和名で鳥を検索できるようにしてほしい。 使い方が間違っているのか、ホットスポットが表示されない。 自分の鳥見記録としてだけじゃなく、データベースとして機能していくことに期待して★4

鳥を検索したり記録する際和名に対応していないのでいちいち英語の学名を調べねばならず非常に面倒。 肝心の鳥の情報部分は英語のままでメニューだけ日本語化されても…。使う気になれないです。

一部日本語に翻訳されていない部分がある。 出来れば完全に日本語対応して欲しい。

As a bird lover, I love this app! It’s great to find “hot spots” for certain species and to easily figure out where I might be able to see a certain bird, etc. I appreciate that the app is not just for researchers but for all birders! That said, I have one small issue: When I search for a species, search results will show up but as soon as I start scrolling through them, the list of species resets to show the full list of species in my area instead of the search results. Also, it would be very helpful if users could create their own personal ‘target lists’ of species they want to see (rather than just a broad life list). For example, I’ve been searching for warblers, and it would save me time to be able to create my own list of warbler species in the app!

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 :(