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

The app is good for checking birds on the go and also has decent, yet some what lacking, sound recordings. What made me give only three stars is that even though species are available in Finnish, the description texts are still not even though the book is available in Finnish. In addition, selling the 3rd edition as an in-app purchase feels wrong.

Having bought this today for £7.99 and opened it for the first time this evening I'm presented with a notification that there's a new version which I could buy for another £7.99. I have to wonder why in the middle of 2024 I have been sold an old version and am required to pay extra for the latest version. Buying it today I would expect to get the latest version. Not a good look at all Collins.

Legendary drawings well forged into an app, tolerably clunky. Freezing issue seems to have improved in latest version. With some species the song feature does not work ("trouble playing song" error). Also, the plates are different according to region (in the German version of the app, the Yellow-legged gull entry is far more detailed than in the English version). Search by name function does not work impeccably (when German is 1st and English 2nd language, "short-eared owl" does not appear)

What's new

We've fixed an issue with video purchases disappearing, and bilingual users can once again search for species by scientific name.