New in Fink 2.2.0 Fink now identifies birds by their song and understands spoken sightings. • Bird sounds (beta) are here! Point the phone at a bird and Fink identifies the species by its song, with a live spectrogram and even with the screen locked. • Recordings can be replayed in the history and the best ones kept. • Your own bird sounds can be added to the wiki. The first recordings of a species earn 1,000 feathers. • Also new: Speak. Say "three blue tits and a robin" and Fink logs both. • For sightings from bird sounds, others can play the sound proof right in the pin. • Wiki photos now show who liked them. The location pill opens the pin on the map. • Chats can now be muted for 8 hours, a week or forever. • Chat search now finds all users, not just friends. • Export of sightings as CSV • On the map, a tap now reliably opens the right bird. Plus around 40 smaller improvements and fixes.

New in Fink 2.1.1: • The app starts with the full bird catalogue, no download dialog. • Map and screen changes now run perfectly smooth, white loading screens after longer use are fixed. • After logging a sighting, pins open right away. • Photo ID is now twice as fast and shows fun facts while you wait. • Add your camera photo to the wiki right after logging a sighting. • In the atlas, narrowing the selection also filters the lists below. • Reopen the "New in your atlas" card from your profile ("Latest"), also to share it as a story. • The heart on liked photos is subtler. • Creators and partners carry their badge in the message list too. • Sharing from a pin works again. Plus around 30 smaller improvements and fixes.

New in Fink 2.1.0: • In the wiki, see which friends have already seen a species (Pro). • You can now like photos with a double tap. • Title photos are chosen and placed better. • New activity view in your profile, year by year. • In your atlas, your species show your best photo at the top. • Statistics run noticeably smoother. • Mark birds from a zoo, wildlife park or aviary as "Captive". • New sorting when identifying birds. • Map filters apply instantly. • "My friends" lists recently visited profiles and your most frequent contacts first. • In your guilds, look back through all past activity. • Fink Partners are here. • Unfinished Creator posts are kept as drafts. • There is now a system chat with Fink. Plus 53 smaller improvements and fixes.

New in Fink 2.0.3: • In the wiki, see which friends have already seen a species (Pro). • Like photos one by one, also with a double tap. • Comment on the photo of the day and in full-screen view. • Title photos are placed better. • Your profile shows your activity across the year. • "My friends" lists your most frequent contacts first. • In your guilds, look back through all past activity. • Long photo descriptions can be expanded. • When identifying, your own species and popular species in your region come first. • "Find friends" remembers your recent searches. Plus many small improvements and fixes.

New in fink 2.0.1: • New wiki pages: the best photo of the species at the top, plus clearer identification and the habitat as a picture • Title photos: the best photos become the title photo of their species and show up on your profile • In the photo feed: photo of the day, new title photos and a photo call for species with few photos • Extra feathers for the first photo of a species in the wiki • In every full-screen photo, the species takes you straight to its wiki page • Heatmap for every species: where it is seen, month by month, ready to play • Guild leaderboards split by size • Clearer statistics, with "What makes you" as tiles • In your statistics: your wiki photos and title photos over time • The logbook now finds places and regions too • New photo menu: your latest photos right at hand • Noticeably smoother, especially when scrolling the feed and the wiki • 93 more species from around the world with their own bird head • New flying fink while loading Plus many small improvements and fixes.

Time to celebrate - Fink 2.0 is here! • Statistics: your year in numbers, your places as a heat map, your rarest species, what makes you you and where you stand among all birders on Fink. With Pro, compare yourself with friends, guilds and your region • Map filters by species, by time (6, 12 or 24 hours) and your own pins only • Pin stacks: where pins sit close together the map shows the rarest birds, and up close the stack fans out. Swipe from pin to pin in the pin card • Bird heads on the map appear right away • Already logged? If the same species is already pinned nearby, you confirm that pin instead of setting a second one • Bird sounds in the wiki: every recording with a spectrogram to follow along and scrub • Voice messages in chat • Recommendations: say who is an experienced birder • Logging a bird starts with direct pick, and identification now finds small birds in your photo • New logbook with search and months • A map of all sightings of the species in the bird profile • Notifications with a profile picture or bird head • The flying fink while loading and haptics throughout the app • A much smoother map and Android Plus more than 100 other improvements and fixes.

New in 1.9.4 • Protect a spot: the pin card menu can blur the exact location of your own sighting afterwards, the way breeding records are handled • When importing from ornitho you decide whether protected records come in blurred or are left out • New filter on the globe: first sightings only • Every sort order in the wiki can be reversed, largest to smallest and back • Tapping a notification about a comment now opens that exact comment • When several pins sit on top of each other, the one underneath can be tapped too • Profile and globe only load what you are looking at: much faster, and no more crash after a large import • Fewer freezes while scrolling, a calmer map • Photos for the wiki and for contests upload at a higher resolution • The post page, quiz answers and expanding lists are no longer cut off

What's new in 1.9.2 • Comments: typing in the middle of your text works again. The cursor used to jump back and the text ran backwards • Comments: the field no longer stays on top of the next page when you go back • Up to four favourite birds on your profile, swipe through them, in the order you pick • Polls and quizzes now show on profile pages too, and you can edit your own posts there • Tap one notification and the rest clear from your phone • The name on the favourite bird card is easier to read • The Excel file from ornitho can be picked anywhere, including when it sits inside a zip (1.9.1)

What's new in 1.9.0 All the birds of the world and importing your data. • Everyone gets the whole app free for 30 days, no subscription. Then you decide whether to carry on with Standard or Pro • Import from eBird and ornitho: upload the file, pick the years, everything lands in your atlas and on your globe • From all over the world: more than 11,000 bird species in the atlas and the wiki, use fink on trips to any continent • The globe shows every year with all sightings of that year • Search in chats: people, guilds and messages, one tap jumps to the spot • The photo feed has been reworked • Logging and backfilling are one flow, the date comes from the photo Plus more than 50 further improvements, especially in guilds, chats, atlas and wiki.

Challenges are now open to whole guilds. Guild challenges • Owners, admins and moderators enable a challenge for their guild • A species counts for the guild once three members have logged it • The number badge on the bird says how many that is, the check says it counts • Sort by the most or the least reported species • The leaderboard compares guilds or individual members The Roll of Honour • A new challenge of a hundred species you have to earn • None of them simply sits there waiting, some need the right storm The guild page • The last ten days as bars: what is actually going on here, not just the total • The members' favourite photos, picked by themselves • "Pins" is now "sightings", both had meant the same thing Everywhere • Pull down to reload on your profile, in creators, in the gallery, in the leaderboard and on the guild page • Numbers are current when you come back to the app, even after hours • Anyone who did not have the giveaway button yet no longer drops out

This release brings over everything that shipped on Android first. Reporting that actually changes something • Reporting a photo now has categories: wrong species, no bird, AI or montage, inappropriate • For a wrong species you pick the right one and say what you based it on • A good photo filed under the wrong species moves there instead of disappearing Creators • Posts can be considerably longer • The short view shows every image side by side instead of only the first one • The field you tap stays in view when the keyboard opens Photo contest • Every matching photo of yours is offered when you submit, not just the first few • Photos that are too old no longer show up there, instead of being refused at the end Map and gallery • Moving a pin works again when your location was briefly off • The photo picker in your profile shows your whole library • A sighting without a photo now says what really happens once the window has passed

What's new in 1.8.2 Bug fixes, plus the improvements from 1.8.1. • The app could crash when you set the place for a wiki photo • The profile gallery now lists all of your own photos when you pick, not just the first few • Writing a creator post scrolls now, the keyboard no longer covers the fields below • Logging a past sighting of a new species is celebrated as well • A rare species can be reported by hand again • A sighting from the past no longer waits for a confirmation nobody can give • The bird species shows under every feed post right after installing • The bird catalogue resumes on its own when a download was interrupted • The contest rules say more clearly how the jury scores and why we are strict about AI images • A contest cover image now comes from the server, new contests bring their own • Smaller polish in full screen and in the feed • The update notice is in German now and looks like the rest of the app

What's new in 1.8.0 A big update with photo contests, a new feed and a gallery on your profile. The feed is completely new, with Photos, Sightings and Creators as their own tabs. • Set how far your feed should look • Several photos in one post now swipe through as a carousel • Your own posts are gathered in one place • Show your best photos in the new gallery on your profile • Photo contests with real prizes start now • You submit, the jury sifts, everyone picks favourites in the final and then come the results • Juror badge in six tiers, it grows with every photo you rate • Giveaways too, where every submitted photo is one lot • Report later, with your own date and your own place • Drop a sighting on the map by hand, a long press is enough • The reporting radius now reaches 1,500 metres, so what you see through a scope counts • Place, camera, lens and aperture are written the same way everywhere • The fullscreen view of a photo shows more and looks the same everywhere • Reactions in chat arrive instantly, plus many more improvements there Plus more than 65 further improvements to the feed, photos and everyday handling.

New in 1.7.2 This one is about notifications near you, creators and inviting friends. • Notifications near you: pick a radius, five switches (still missing, rare, vagrant, favourite, unconfirmed next to you) • Saved searches: tell me when this species is reported within my radius • Creator posts as a blog: paragraphs, up to four photos with captions • Invite friends from your profile, with a story for Instagram • Chat: double tap sets a heart, one reaction per message • Likes in notifications split by type Plus over 20 further improvements to feed, upload, atlas and settings.

New in 1.7.1 This one is about proof. • Rare birds can always be reported: a photo proves it right away, otherwise two confirmations on site • Without a photo, write briefly what tells you it is this species • Photos can be added to a pin later • "Legendary" now only means birds that really never occur here • Wiki photos with a date and place show up as grey pins on the map, with their own grey clusters • Remove species from your atlas • Photos missing a date or place: a to-do list in settings with a progress bar, plus the species page in your atlas • Place search when picking a spot for wiki photos, and your previous cameras as suggestions • Progress bar for photo uploads • "Still there?" only asks twelve hours after the pin was set • The "Likes" switch now also covers wiki photos and Bird News • Push notifications arrive more reliably Plus over 20 further improvements to the map, chat and atlas.

What's new in 1.6.2 Mostly a cleanup release. • Reporting works everywhere again, carrion crow included • Your species count is correct again • Wiki photos now show capture month and camera model • Posts can be edited afterwards • Long-press the plus: report a sighting or upload photos • Compass on the map, red dot for unread messages • Confirmed sightings carry a green seal in your logbook • Photos load half the data Plus many smaller improvements.

New in 1.6.0 Challenges are at the heart of this release. • Challenges: Germany's 315, Your First 40 and Birds of Helgoland • Your progress on your profile, leaderboard included • List and grid, filters by rarity, habitat and when you found a bird • The live map can follow the sun, from sunrise to night • 3D objects on the map can be turned off • New typing indicator in chat, with profile picture • In one-to-one chats you see whether someone is around or last active • Pinned messages can now be opened and read • Confirmed sightings now appear in your logbook • Feathers even for reports we do not act on • New privacy switches for atlas, challenges and online status We have also reworked bulk upload, the feed and more bird drawings, and added many smaller improvements.

What's new in 1.5.0 The bird wiki and your photos in it are at the heart of this release. • Wiki photos can now carry a location and a description • Species from your wiki photos go into your atlas, dated from the shot • Photos you uploaded earlier can be added to the atlas afterwards • Wiki photos are filed under the right species more reliably • Bird identification has been improved • Pin messages in guild chats • Better chat notifications and chat features • Push notifications have been improved • Steadier sign-in on a weak connection • A new explainer page: what every sign on the map means • 46 reworked bird illustrations We have also reworked posts, notifications, the atlas and the rarity figures, and added many smaller improvements.

What’s New in 1.4.0 Reporting has been improved with more useful details and new ways to log sightings. • Add count, heard/seen, flight status and optional details • Report heard-only sightings without a photo • Sensitive breeding and threatened-species locations are shown approximately • New logbook with all your sightings in one place • Share new sightings as Instagram Stories • Move your own pins after posting • Improved species search and confirmation flow • Clearer local and Europe-wide rarity information • New and updated habitat backgrounds We’ve also improved comments, likes, profiles and visuals, and fixed more than 30 smaller issues.

Faster, calmer, and a new start. The map used to keep computing even when nothing was happening. That is fixed: it now comes to rest, and your location is no longer polled at full precision every second. You will notice it in battery life and temperature. New • A new welcome screen: fink greets you with the living map instead of an off-the-shelf landscape. • The map opens in a view that actually shows something. Tap the map icon to tilt between flat and angled, double tap to return to the default view. • Chat now supports photos, locations, your own sightings, bird cards, reactions, replies, editing and deleting. Use @ to mention people. • New "Performance" settings page: choose how many pins each map draws, separately for live map, guild and globe. • The full-screen globe filters by favorites, "not in atlas" and friends. • New map filters: friends only, not in atlas, just now. Improved • A bird that does not occur at your location now requires a photo as proof. • Wiki search works in both languages: "Common Blackbird" and "Amsel" both find the same bird. • Proof photos taken of a camera display are now accepted. Fixed • Crashes when zooming out and when opening chat or guilds. • Freezes of several seconds and permanently high battery drain. • The keyboard covered the chat input. • On Android: blurry bird heads, blotchy atlas birds, pins that only appeared after zooming out, picker wheels that would not spin, and headings in the wrong font. Plus more than a hundred smaller fixes!

Your photos now earn feathers. Every photo that makes it into the wiki pays out feathers based on its rating, and you collect them straight from your notifications. Wrong species? No problem. If your photo shows a different bird than the one you picked, fink files it under the right species instead of turning it away. Look through your friends' collections. Open another birder's atlas and see which species the two of you share. Also in this update: - Every bird now appears in its own habitat instead of the same background - One screen for adding photos, with the species already filled in when you come from a bird page - No more waiting after an upload: your photos are checked in the background - You decide whether your wiki photos may be shown on our social media channels, with credit and revocable at any time - The reporting radius follows you as you move, and it is larger - Notifications from a chat open that chat again, and comment notifications open the comment - Creators can publish again

Guilds, properly. • Roles and permissions: owner, admin, moderator, member • Control how people join: open, on request or invite only, plus a join question and a minimum number of sightings • Decide what non-members see: map, member list and photos • Find guilds that fit: recommendations by friends, distance and category, with filters and sorting • Invitations, a leaderboard, a record-shot gallery and a guild atlas of its own • Friends' pins on the map now carry their profile picture

New name, same app: Fink becomes fink - birdwatching community. Community and creators • The feeds are now Friends, Everyone and Creators • Bird News shows real posts: like, comment and open profiles • Institutions have their own profile you can follow • Become a creator: requirements and progress now live in Settings Comments • Reply, edit and delete your own comments • Editing stays open until someone replies • Newest comments first, and you are notified when someone replies • Comments, pins and photos can be reported Photos • Every photo now shows the photographer's name and picture • Manage your own wiki photos: move them to another species or delete them • Upload many photos at once • Galleries lead with variety instead of the same shot repeated Profile • Separate sections for sighting photos and wiki photos • Your birding year at a glance • Pin a favourite photo • Your profile picture now sits in the navigation bar Map and sightings • Fixed a crash when confirming a sighting • Confirming extends the pin timer instead of resetting it • Confirming now counts like a sighting of your own • The atlas check only shows for birds you have yourself Plus many more fixes across the map, comments, profiles and notifications.

• Bug fixes and various stability improvements. • Improved overall app responsiveness and performance.

• Bug fixes and various stability improvements. • Improved overall app responsiveness and performance. • Added an in-depth feedback flow — share your thoughts with the Fink team directly from Settings. • Added German localization. The app now adapts to your device language.