Collins Bird Guide

NatureGuides Ltd

In-app purchases

About this app

‘It’s much more convenient than taking a big book with you...the Collins app is fantastic.’
– Chris Packham, Metro

‘The Collins Bird Guide app is destined to become a real triumph, the ultimate in field guide apps — and deservedly so.’
– BirdGuides

The Collins Bird Guide App combines world-class illustrations and comprehensive information with intuitive design to create the ultimate field guide for passionate birders and casual birdwatchers alike. The app is based on the landmark book by Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterström, universally acknowledged as the standard European field guide.

The Collins Bird Guide App provides everything you need to identify a species quickly and learn about it thoroughly. Immerse yourself in the exceptional illustrations, maps, calls and concise text. Use the powerful search filter and curated confusion lists to focus in on a species. The Collins Bird Guide App is an essential companion always to hand on your device.

Features include:

• Over 700 European species covered
• 3500+ beautiful illustrations by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterström
• Detailed text covering habitat, range, identification and voice by Lars Svensson
• Record sightings, location and date with the listing tool
• Powerful search filter
• Intuitive design to quickly and easily swipe through species
• Curated lists of confusable species
• Over 750 carefully selected songs and calls – many by Lars Svensson
• Select species names from 18 languages
• Available in English, Swedish, Norwegian, French and German
• Weighs nothing!

The app incorporates British Trust for Ornithology/BirdWatch Ireland/Scottish Ornithologists' Club Bird Atlas 2007–11 mapping data as an in-app purchase, providing the most comprehensive location mapping of any bird guide app.


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Ratings and reviews

A good app for quick reference, if you know the categories. The information is good, but the distribution information is weaker than I expected it to be. I have one major problem with the app: The scientific names, located beneath the common name, are almost completely covered by the image plates, which means that they are unreadable.

I love this app. It's very easy to use and has saved me from lugging a paper edition around for years. The calls and songs are invaluable. Suggestions: 1. remove unnecessary words in common names such as "European" Robin as they're superfluous in a European birds app. 2. Include a beginner mode switch in settings. New birders shouldn't be trawling through Thrush Nightingales and Scrub Robins to find a common bird.

Pay again already?! Bought for £7.99, and the first thing I see upon opening is a banner saying "third edition now available, pay £7.99 to unlock thirty new birds and updated information". Haven't actually used the app yet, but it's not cheap and at £7.99 I'd expect to get the most recent version on download. Being asked to pay the same again to unlock a little extra content feels icky.

What’s new

EBBA2 breeding distribution maps are now available as an in-app purchase. We have also added Hebrew names and fixed some language-related bugs.