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THE BEST BIRD APPS

A good bird app can change your birder life.

Here are the ones I find to be most useful and pleasant to use, for occasional or more serious birders.

  • Ornito for Android
  • Merlin Bird ID for song identification
  • Audubon for visual identification 
  • eBird & iNaturalist

OrnitO is my favorite. It’s available only on Android for now. I miss it now that I’ve switched to iOs!

I left a review in 2022. It’s a good sum-up of my love and admiration:

You can find more information on the creator’s website: https://dominicweb.eu/fr/ornito

Merlin Bird ID 

(I used to use BirdNET but it doesn’t compare)

Merlin Bird ID has changed my birding life. A fantastic app. Intuitive and pleasant to use. It has made it so easy to identify a bird by its sound (song, calls and others), which is the area where I’m the least good at.

The app records soundsand identifies birds from their songs, calls and other sounds they can make. It lists all the birds heard, the singing bird is highlighted with a yellow background. The list grows bigger as birds are heard, or simultaneously.

You can click on the identified species, and you get sound recordings, descriptive informations and a map.

One spring morning, I heard a particular bird song. Fluty and short? The app confirms that it’s an Eurasian Oriole! I have a lovely summer memory of seeing a couple going back and forth to their nest, at the entrance of the forest. I was with my friend Loris that I renamed Loriot (Oriole in french).

Audubon

Audubon is the first app I used in America. Intuitive and precise, the app offers plenty of criterias to identify a bird visually: location and date, size, color and type of bird.

It has cool features such as Guides : « Get to know 20 common birds », Actions where you can sign petitions to act for bird protection. 

eBird :

For bird outings. You have to keep track of species as you see them. It’s more scientific, you write down the number of birds seen for each species, the hour and location (the app has geolocation)

I don’t use it a lot. I don’t think of starting a Check-list everytime I’m in the birdzone. I’m a more spontaneous birder.

I love that the app is linked to Merlin Bird ID and that the species automatically appear on your ‘Life List’. It motivates me to use it, and I do so mostly when I travel somewhere.

iNaturalist :

For all species, not just birds. It’s a social media, where you can post photos et have others help identify a specie if needed. They can leave comments under the photos. You can help identify as well, from a map. You can use filters for a search. Sometimes I search the map of France or parts of the US, for bird species (Class Aves) which need identification. When two people validate an identification, it gets thje ‘Research’ grade and is then more legitimate.

on internet :

https://www.oiseaux.net

I love birds. They inspire and move me. Watching and drawing them teaches me patience. They are very special to me and I hope more people would care, appreciate and respect them.

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