Get ready for birding in Costa Rica with this digital field guide!
-More than 1000 species on app.
-Customize app for target lists, notes, and more.
Full featured digital field guide for birding in Costa Rica.
Costa Rica Birds includes all of the birds that have occurred in this beautiful country as well as several species that may eventually occur. This digital field guide requires no Internet connection and has a wealth of information and features that make it an excellent reference guide before, during, and after any trip to Costa Rica.
Since this app was released in 2015, local bird experts in Costa Rica have updated features and information to turn this app into a comprehensive digital tool that can be personalized with target lists, lists of birds seen and heard, and notes.
It also includes accurate and up to date information about bird identification, habits and habitats for 930 plus species on the Costa Rica list as well as 70 plus additional species that may eventually occur in Costa Rica.
Features include:
• Full-featured birding field guide for Costa Rica.
• Images and vocalizations for more than 1000 species.
• Information, field marks, range maps and tips for seeing each species in Costa Rica.
• NO ADVERTISEMENTS. FREE UPGRADES WITH ADDITIONAL IMAGES AND SOUNDS.
• Additional features to customize your birding experience:
• Comprehensive SEARCH filter
• -Search by name
• -Sorting options, including by family, group, bird characteristics, region, habitat, nocturnal and regional endemic birds and more!
• -Make target lists
• -Check as seen, heard, or unseen/heard
• -Personal notes
• -Camera
• -Similar Species feature to compare similar birds.
• -Information about major habitats in Costa Rica.
• -Information about Conservation status.
• ‘Which Bird is it?' Record and photo bird, email to us for help in identification.
• Larger font for easier reading.
• Pinch images to make them bigger.
This app was invaluable on our trip to CR. In fact I put it on my smartphone as well. A great deal of thought has gone into the planning. All the birds have photographic images and many have several images showing females and juveniles as well as the adult male birds.There sound files for many of the species, which is really good. You can add your own notes on individual birds and also log your sightings as seen or heard or both. This info then shows up on the initial bird list. As long as you enter your sightings on the day you see the bird you are OK, but I found problems as I often entered mine late and had difficulty with backdating the sightings. Also I was not sure if I was on local time or the time back home when I installed the app.It also had a great filter device where colour size and habitat could all be entered to narrow down the field, some times too much but still very useful.I think the guys at Birding Field Guides have done a great job. Could I put in a request for another app for the Birds of Peru?Thanks
Mixed
smugsssssss
Excellent information presented here. But the app is terrible to use with a really poor design. For example, if you haven’t displayed range before you search, you have to cancel the search, show the range and search again. Once you have found a bird you cannot move to the next bird in the search without returning first. Suggest the writers look at some of the best in class apps like the Sasol Birds of South Africa to see how you can make it what the quality of data needs.
Invaluable app.
Loupmatou
Without this app I would’ve had no idea what I was looking at here in Costa Rica. And the very fact that you can listen to the calls gives you the ability to double confirm what you have seen. Or simply confirm what you have heard!This is a great app. Highly recommended
Semi useful app
Fluster-Buster
There are so many more things that need to be done to make it more user friendly and easier to find the bird you are looking for that I don’t think it’s worth the money. I am currently in Costa Rica and gave up using this app within a few days and downloaded the Merlin Bird app with the Costa Rica bird pack and this has been my go to app for bird iD in the field. To top it off the Merlin bird app is free, easier to use and can be used off line.
-Bug fix for Notes crash and app update.
Version 6.55
The developer, Patrick ODonnell, 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 Not Collected
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Information
Provider
Patrick ODonnell
Size
601.5 MB
Category
Reference
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
