Birder's Diary

Jones Technologies LLC

About this app

The Birder's Diary Mobile Field App companion to your Birder's Diary PC program (www.BirdersDiary.com).

"You want to focus on seeing birds, finding birds, identifying birds (or any Thing) while you are in the field. You need an App that helps you accomplish these goals without getting in your way. That is the goal of this App's Experience." Fast, easy, one-handed, no typing, no reading glasses, Voice Recognition; and so much more.

Record sightings and various information while in the field for Birds, Butterflies, Dragonflies, Mammals, Plants, Reptiles, etc.

Easily and quickly record sightings in the field:
• One-handed use.
• User-adjustable unlimited font-size (no reading glasses required) using device volume up/down button for immediate adjustment.
• Multiple checklists (birds, plants, mammals, butterflies, etc) on concurrently available Tabs.
• Move from a Bird checklist to a Butterfly checklist with the swipe of your thumb.
• Bird checklists show abundance graph for the area selected!
• Quickly download recent sightings for Notable Species in your area or download sightings in your area for any specific species.
• Access from your Checklist to a huge library of sound recordings for any bird on your Checklist sorted by recording location proximity to your current location.
• Quick access to bird range map and information pages from your Checklist.
• Interactive Google Map showing your Track and marking each Sighting!
• Voice Recognition! Clean and fast; simple, accurate and intuitive.
• Download Checklists for Bird locations anywhere in the World ahead of your bird outing without internet connectivity. Do the same for multiple different Orders of Animal and Plant kingdoms.
• No typing required to record sightings; just tap with your thumb. Left and right-handed configuration.
• No need for reading glasses in the field for those that don't want another thing hanging around your neck (e.g. binoculars, camera, etc.).
• Records lat/lng/time/alt for each sighting. Tracks distance traveled.
• Load your own user-created Checklists for anything you want to track.
• No typing required to record sightings, just a tap on the row to increment, tap on the count to decrement.
• At finish, email is sent to you with complete list of Things seen along with Excel-type attachment with details of each sighting and an Excel-type attachment with your Track.
• Quickly and easily imports into Birder's Diary Desktop for your PC for the near-limitless capabilities of the desktop version (www.BirdersDiary.com).
• No Advertising.

Birder's Diary has been in business since 1995! Longer than anyone else in the business!

Ratings and reviews

For a couple of years I used both this app and eBird app but now I only use this one because it has more features. Ones I use most often are (1) sorting taxonomy by last name first, eg, Duck, Mottled as it the fastest lookup. (2) displays yearly abundance for every species. (3) multiple taxonomies. I use birds, mammals and plants most often (4) pinpoints exact location for every entry, not just gps for the whole list. (5) uploads immediately to the cloud. (6) easy access to photos and audio.

This app is awesome. The interface is easy to use and sightings upload to the client or ebird are a breeze. I use ebird, but I can be lazy about the ebird protocol of hourly lists. I often carry a phone, camera binoculars, recording equipment and a scope!. It is hard with all that gear to fumble glasses and type in ebird out in the field. With this mobile app you can increase the font size so you don't need glasses.

Nice simple to use app. Handles multiple checklists (Birds, butterflies, etc.) very elegantly, supports eBird hotspot and other location taxonomy lists. Sort taxonomic or alphabetical and only list what you see during an outing.

What's new

eBird Hotspot locations are no longer truncated to one line in the dropdown for eBird Checklist downloads.