Birdbuddy: ID & Collect Birds

Bird Buddy

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About this app

Birdbuddy is the world’s most recognized app for discovering and learning about birds – whether you’re using our smart bird feeder in your backyard or identifying birds anywhere with just your phone.

Powered by artificial intelligence, Birdbuddy instantly recognizes bird species by photo or sound. Snap a picture, record a song, or let the smart feeder do the work for you. Get alerts when a bird visits, receive collectible postcard photos, and learn fascinating facts about each species.

Join a global community of bird lovers and enjoy live bird photos from 500,000+ feeders in over 120 countries – all while contributing valuable data to bird conservation efforts.

Key Features:
• Identify birds by photo or sound – Use your phone’s camera or microphone to get an instant ID. No feeder required.
• Smart feeder integration – Pair with the Birdbuddy feeder for automatic photos, videos, alerts, and postcards.
• Collect and learn – Build your collection with each new bird. Explore facts about appearance, diet, calls, and more.
• Explore a global birdwatching network – Discover moments of nature shared by our community.
• Support conservation – Each bird you identify helps researchers track populations and migrations.

Birdbuddy brings the joy of birdwatching to curious beginners and seasoned nature lovers alike. Whether you’re exploring your backyard or out on a trail, Birdbuddy helps you connect with birds — and the world around you.

Ratings and reviews

It's a good app. I do have some feedback for the developers though. AI is identifying the birds pretty well but there is no way to give feedback when the bird is unidentified by the app. I know what the bird is based on my Merlin app. It is a rare, female summer tanager. Additionally, it had trouble getting it connected to my Wi-Fi after disconnecting it. Then I started getting someone else's pictures in addition to mine. There is no way to remove them permanently or tell you they're not mine.

I love my bird buddy so much! I feel like I have hundreds of new pets. I am not having an issue with the app itself, it works great. I get all my postcards etc. What I am frustrated about is what it has done to my phone. My phone is the pixel 10 and it was working perfectly (best phone ever) until I downloaded the bird buddy app. it is causing other apps to be slow or not load things and it is really such a bummer. I hope they can figure something out!

this thing works great! if you like paid subscriptions, and paid upgrades, you would probably have given this a five-star. but whenever I hit the paywall you lose a star. and I keep hitting paywalls every time I try to do things in this app. it's not that you don't have a right to charge for your services, but running into that paywall underneath a menu is so aggravating. how about you separate your paid items and offer them and gray out the menus so that we don't have to go there for nothing.

What’s new

Bug fixes and performance improvements