This version allows downloads even when the BirdPhotos.com server not available because of ever increasing attacks by scrapers, AI training bots, hackers and so on.

Minor updates.

This version updates the databases to IOC 14.2 (taxonomy), IUCN 2024.1 (Red List of endangered species), and eBird 2024.

This update has a relatively small number of updates to photos, sound files and text.

Version 1321 has a relative small number of updates, but some important sound file and photo updates, especially for South America.

A small number of database updates, especially for Galapagos and Brazil.

This release updates the taxonomy to IOC 13.2. The eBird database is updated to 2022, and additionally there are hundreds of sound file, image, map and text updates for every supported country.

This release updates the database to IOC 13.1. There are about 15 changes, mostly splits and lumps of existing species, for the countries covered by Bird Data, and all have new maps.

Release 1270 has a relatively small number of updates to photos, text, sound files and maps.

This release updated the IOC database to 12.2 and the IUCN Red List database to 2022.1. As always there are a number of text, sound file, map, and photo updates.

This release has a good number of photo updates, especially for Peru and Brazil. Special thanks to Bradley Hacker from California for his contribution.

This version allows people who have made a donation to download all of the additional images at once. And as always there are new photos, text and sound files.

This version has a good number updates to photos, text and sound file links.

This is a big update which many changes resulting from comparing the Bird Data species list for countries against lists maintained by others. Over 100 range maps were created or updated, for example for species recently discovered in a country. And as always there are numerous text and photo updates.

This release adds some missing translations for new families and orders in the 11.2 taxonomy. There are also a good number of text and photo updates for the Amazon region, and a number of smaller updates.

This update has many internal changes, and relatively few updates except for Brazil.

Mainly this release updates the underlying taxonomy to IOC 11.2, which included splits of Greyish Saltator, Rufous Antpitta, and Tropical Gnatcatcher, as well as many english and scientific name changes. Also included are updates to photos, maps and text.

This update has relatively minor updates to text, photos and sound files.

This release has no new features, but has a number of photo, text, map and sound file updates.

Version 1110 updates the database to IOC taxonomy 11.1 and IUCN Red List 2020.3. There are also quite a few map and sound file, and text updates.

A long overdue update with many new photos, sounds and text, especially for South America. The next update will be taxonomy 11.1.

Version 1082 just has minor updates to text, photos and sound files.

The release corrects some errors in the IUCN red list database (some endangered species listed as 'least concern'). There are as always photo and text updates. Also there is support for Dark Mode.

This release corrects two problems with 10.1 database upgrade. Breeding range data was shown in column 'Non-breeding range', and Non-breeding range, often empty, was not shown. Also some species did not have their foreign names shown. Additionally the synchronization between eBird and IOC has been improved.

Taxonomy database updated to IOC 10.1. IUCN Red LIst updated to 2019.3, and eBird to 2019. Other photo, text, sound file and map updates.