Birda - Bird ID & Birding 12+

I dont know what to say. The community is great, the features are great, no massive popup ads… I can’t get enough of it. It seems like even though there’s a diverse audience on Birda, everyone seems to get along great and have a lot of fun. You don’t have to tell everyone about who you are, or get into political matters or do anything stressful on Birda. It’s just an app where you can have fun outdoors and chat with a bunch of nice people that you don’t know but you sort of get to know in a way over time through the way they show themselves on the community. Overall, 10/10 app would recommend to birders of any skill level (being an extremely inexperienced birder myself 😅). Thanks for the great experience, Birda!

Thank you so much for your 5-star review, we're so pleased to have you on Birda! The team and I are over the moon with your wonderful feedback :D If you have any ideas for new features on Birda, we'd love to hear from you at support@birda.org. Wishing you all the best and happy birding!

This app is wonderful for what it is! It's very quick and easy to log new sightings and upload pictures. The community is very nice and helpful, especially compared to other birding groups where arguments often break out. One of my favorite things is the feature where you can search through birds on the app and suggest one for an unknown bird species someone is wondering about. I think that if you could post videos and it was easier to log sighting in the "birding session" mode, I would give this app full stars. Videos would be incredibly helpful for identifying certain bird species. While that would be cool, I feel as if the efficiency of logging birding session sightings is a more important matter that needs attending to. Rather than being able to simply click on the bird I saw or press an increase button for the number of a certain species spotted, I had to click through multiple things just to log a sighting and manually type in the number every time. Despite this, I still think it's an interesting feature and definitely promising. Overall, I think this is a good app for the casual birder interested in finding a fun and helpful community to share with!

Thank you so much for your review and your wonderful feedback, we're really pleased to have you on Birda!

We do have some features which could help with logging birds. If you press the Settings button next to the species search bar when logging a session, you can change your session mode to Speedy and find a ticklist of birds. Let me know how you get on with this, we'd love to hear your thoughts.

We'd love to add videos, the team and I are looking into this for the future :)

Thank you so much again for your thoughtful review, if you have any more ideas for Birda, we'd love to hear from you at support@birda.org. Wishing you all the best and happy birding :)

I can see the potential for this app, especially for new birders. The ‘gamification’ and badges etc might make for fun challenges for new and old birders.
As someone who has been listing daily on eBird for years I am a lot more in tune with that app and record keeping style. Trying to use eBird with Merlin and then simultaneously keeping up with another similar app in the field is just too much and I personally find it too time consuming and distracting. I’ve given it a few weeks and realized it’s just one more thing I’m staring at on my phone when I should be concentrating on the birds and instead I’m staring at my phone trying to simultaneously keep two accurate lists with different types of data entry.
I may try adding eBird data manually at the end of the week for a bit but eBird has the top billing for accurately maintaining my personal records in an easy to digest format.
It’s a fun addition to the birding space and folks who aren’t big listers or eBird users will surely find it fun and valuable but it’s more of a novelty in my opinion. I do appreciate the effort to introduce another app to liven up birding.

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts, we're pleased to hear from you. We really value your feedback and thank you for the time taken to write it. We'd love to discuss how we can improve your experience on Birda so please feel free to get in touch with us at support@birda.org, we'd love to learn more from you. Wishing you a great start to your biridng in 2024, happy birding!