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Founded:
June 2009
 
Tim Cloninger

Tim Cloninger Lost my iPhone to water damage (fly fishing) a few weeks ago. Missed iBird almost immediately, spotted several new birds I wasn't able to identify...though I did identify the Black Vultures and Yellow-rumped Warblers. (Missed a woodpecker of some kind and maybe a vireo?)
Just got my replacement phone in today. First app opened? iBird. :)
Re-favorited my identified birds; I'm up to 41. :D

Matthew Cringle

Matthew Cringle I wonder if it would be possible to identify a bird by snapping a photo of it using the iphone's camera. Like other apps can take a picture of a book then give you the best prices available, and another app red laser can scan a barcode and give you the best prices online as well?

Douglas Dunn

Douglas Dunn
iBird is a true "gateway" product. Like many older users, I had never used the iTunes store before and had never purchased anything from then, in almost two years with my iPhone and many more years with my Macs. But after seeing this product in a birding magazine, it was a "must have" and, after seeing how easy and si...mple it was to buy online, I have now purchased additional apps, music and stuff from the iTunes store, that I had never done before. I also know at least two people who bought the iPhone just for this app (and a few more who say they're thinking about it).Read More

October 28 at 4:17pm · Report
iBird
iBird
Thanks for the great write up Doug. And good to know that you didn't find the iTunes store too intimidating. we're putting together a web page to help guide people through the process. If you have any suggestions for areas that you found confusing that we can focus on, please let us know.
November 1 at 10:57am
Douglas Dunn

Douglas Dunn
It is hard to wrap one’s mind just how much information and resource material is contained in this small little gizmo that is a fraction of the size and weight of an actual manual, and something you would be carrying with you anyway! And instead of fumbling through an index looking for birds or flipping through pages t...rying to find a match to something in the field, one can quickly search on numerous visual criteria, as well as even the song (!), and find something in a fraction of the time as even the best printed field guide!Read More

Douglas Dunn

Douglas Dunn After seeing the ad for iBird in the inside front cover of December issue of Birdwatcher’s Digest, the only way to stop the drooling was to finally break through my resistance to shopping at iTunes and make my first iTunes store purchase. iBird Plus exceeded my expectations many times over, and is an app that I have used and enjoyed every day since.

I have since upgraded and have both iBird Plus and iBird PRO.

October 28 at 4:16pm · Report
iBird
iBird
Glad you liked the ad. We had a lot of fun putting it together. we have other ads coming out in several magazines. Always good to hear what folks think of them.
November 1 at 10:48am
Douglas Dunn

Douglas Dunn I have posted repeatedly in the WhatBird.com forums as "Doug in Escondido" and am so glad to see that there is an iBird Facebook fan page.

This is a great way to share with others about iBird!

Rebecca White Connors

Rebecca White Connors Any idea if/when an iBird release for Android would be available?

October 26 at 7:09am · Report
iBird
iBird
It's coming soon. Stay tuned :)
November 1 at 10:46am
Rebecca White Connors
Rebecca White Connors
Yay! I can't wait. Thank you!
Fri at 7:20pm
Megan Westervelt Pettebone

Megan Westervelt Pettebone Thanks for adding Hawaiian birds to iBird plus! Just a note, under Red Avadavat is a picture of the Red-crested cardinal instead.

Matthew Cringle

Matthew Cringle Also I love the ibird pro for North America? I wonder if you may be or planning on working on an ibird app for Europe or some other region of the world?

October 20 at 11:33am · Report
iBird
iBird
iBird UK is in the works, and will include a lot of European birds.
November 1 at 10:49am
Matthew Cringle

Matthew Cringle I wonder if it is possible to identify bird songs like on shazam? Do you think that you'll be working on a feature like this in the coming future?

October 20 at 11:32am · Report
Anita
Anita
This would be almost impossible to do, according to Mitch. Don't hold your breath for this one.
October 22 at 12:39am
Fredrik Wallenberg

Fredrik Wallenberg My number one feature request would be a log style feature where you could enter when and where you've spotted the bird... With one click using the gps and time from the phone.

I'd also like to see a set of likely birds based on my current location rather than the current manual statewide filtering.

Kc Skultety
Kc Skultety
I agree Fredrik. I love this ap except that I can not log and track my life list.
October 24 at 3:31pm
Rebecca White Connors
Rebecca White Connors
I'd like to add to Fredrik's suggestion - it would be great if the app could not only log where you spotted a bird but also an option to submit the reports to interested parties - such as Cornell Ornithology's eBird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ or the Backyard Bird Count http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/ .

Also - for those of us with Android ... Read Morephones (T-mobile MyTouch) we would LOVE to be able to buy the iBird app. The Android format is open source and is starting to really gain some of Apple's market share, so I hope an Android iBird release is coming soon.
October 26 at 7:05am
Michael Ackley

Michael Ackley Do you have a time frame for the release date of the upgrade app from plus to pro?

Paul Hendler

Paul Hendler CaliforniaBirder..do not be sour, all you had to do is return my calls

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