Birda - Bird ID & Birding 12+

Identification & Community App

Chirp Birding Ltd.

    • 4.8 • 249 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

'APP OF THE DAY' in 148 countries! Join fun birding challenges! Log, learn about, & ID the birds you see with a friendly community. Amplify your birdwatching experience!

NATURE IS FOR EVERYONE
With Birda, anyone can get outside, identify and record the birds they see, and share them with a fun and inclusive community. Modern life pushes us away from nature. Start pushing back.

Birda is not your typical bird identifier app, it also connects the global community of birders irrespective of how they already record their sightings! Simply sync or import your records from eBird, Merlin Bird ID, iNaturalist, Birdtrack, Birdlasser, and more to get started.

Stay motivated by joining challenges and making new friends - it’s free! Don’t know a bird? Use the global field guide or tap into the community and use HI (Human Intelligence) to identify what you have seen - and grow your birdwatching & ID knowledge faster. Help protect nature by turning birding into a fun adventure. All with the help of a free bird app. Cool, right?


WHO IS BIRDA FOR?
Birda is a free bird app & community for anyone curious about nature and birds, no matter your level of knowledge or previous bird watching experience. We want to help you enjoy birds, so you are inspired to fight to protect them. If you like fun & nature, Birda is for you!

Have fun using your smartphone as a powerful tool to help conservationists protect a myriad of bird species. To get started:
1. Download Birda, it’s free!
2. Head out, head up.
3. Log your bird sightings - one at a time or multiple sightings as part of a birding session.


CITIZEN SCIENCE
Your bird sightings have a direct impact on helping conservation, so all that time in nature is good not only for you but also for the planet. Birda sends all of the sightings data it collects to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) so that scientists can use it to understand more about the world’s bird species and their habitats.


YOU CAN ALSO:
• Find birding locations & the bird species that occur there
• Use the field guide to identify what you have seen with reference images and bird calls
• Set birding goals
• Get bird identification suggestions from the community
• Help the community as a bird identifier
• Unlock achievement badges
• Take part in challenges
• Automatically create bird life lists
• See what birds other users have spotted
• Log sightings even when you’re offline
• Choose from multiple taxonomies (IOC, Clements & Birdlife HBW)


IMPORTS & EXPORTS
If you are coming from another platform, then there is no better way to get started than to import your records to Birda. We currently support imports from eBird, Merlin Bird ID, iNaturalist, Birdtrack and Birdlasser, with more coming soon. If you want to move your records to another platform, you are free to export all of your sightings from Birda.


LIFE LISTS
Birda automatically creates life lists of all the birds you've imported or recorded on Birda. Birda automatically generates sub-level lists based on time and geographic location. For example, you can see all your bird ticks for the last month or year and your home and patch lists (regions, countries, states/provinces & nature reserves coming soon!).


TAXONOMY
We understand that taxonomy can be complicated! This is especially true when people are trying to compare species across taxonomic authorities. For this reason, we built an industry-first solution to simplify taxonomy for our users. Our taxonomic engine makes taxonomy seamless, allowing users to view each other’s bird sightings in their taxonomy of choice, irrespective of what is being used by other users.


PRIVACY
You can choose to create a privacy zone around your address to automatically hide the location of any sightings you post in your garden. This privacy feature prevents you from disclosing your home address when logging sightings around your home. Set up your home location, and Birda will also automatically create Home Lists and Patch lists for all the sightings you post within your Home and Patch boundaries. You have full control over what posts and GPS coordinates you share with others on Birda.

What’s New

Version 0.0.1338

Exciting updates on the way as we get closer to Easter - be sure to keep checking back as we've got some great news that will be hatching soon.

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
249 Ratings

249 Ratings

Joel Tragen ,

Online nature community hub & bird list organiser

A great app which allows birders (or Birda’s 😉) from around the world to share their sightings. I love being able to see what birding says out my friends around the Uk are having and how they’re getting on with their life and year list. Also a great way to brag to my friends

I’ve found it a great way to organise my lists as they’re updated automatically once I complete a session. Looking forward to boosting my house list since moving in whilst keeping my house location private thanks to Birda hiding my location.

Would really recommend it to anyone regardless of skill level. With the “unknown bird” feature the community can rally together and help with identification and pointers for next time, speeding up any beginners confidence.

Developer Response ,

Thanks so much for the lovely review Joel :)

booffey ,

Best birding app I’ve come across

I discovered Birda maybe just over a year ago and it’s the best and easiest app to log sightings on etc. It’s really fun to see what other people have seen across the country and across the world. The badges make it fun as well as it encourages you to go out and find birds to accomplish the goals. I find that people are really nice and helpful on there, and the unidentified species/sighting tab is great because people are so willing to help you identify them. Overall the app is great, however I wish there was an option to search a certain bird and see its sightings/recent sightings in a certain area.
When it comes to the ‘nearby’ tab, it’s quite a specific issue but since I live by the sea the radius goes over into part of England which in some senses isn’t ‘nearby’ for me as it’s across the sea. I understand why it does that but I mainly look at the tab to see what is actually ‘nearby’ to me and that I can access fairly easily if that makes sense. It is a picky issue to note and it’s understandable if it isn’t necessarily resolvable but I just thought I’d say it anyway. But again, overall it is a great app and I really enjoy using it :).

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much for your review and feedback, we're so pleased to hear your thoughts, and to have you on Birda.
We completely understand the issue with the Nearby Feed and I'll pass this to our engineers to see what we can do. Feel free to get in touch with us at support@birda.org if you have any other ideas for Birda. All the best and happy birding!

Rik40 ,

Brilliant app!

I’m 55 years old and new to bird watching. This app is fantastic and lets you log birds either singly or as part of a session keeping lists of daily, monthly, yearly and lifetime birds. There are monthly challenges and spot challenges to keep you interested and coming back for more. There is a home section which hides details so that nobody can work out where you live, a patch section which logs birds within a set distance from your house and you can even check other peoples post’s from nearby. This is an invaluable feature as it introduces you to new birding sites that you never knew were there. I could go on but I’d rather just say download the app and try it, you won’t be disappointed.

App Privacy

The developer, Chirp Birding Ltd., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

  • Location
  • Contact Info
  • Contacts
  • User Content
  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

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