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

I'm enjoying identifying birds that come to the feeder. I just wish you could edit videos/photos when they get to the collection. Once you edit in home screen, that's it, it's almost permanent. I had a few more spieces to add on a few occasions and wish I could change the privacy of my videos/photos. Again, once a choice is made, that's it, no more editing. Also, it would be lovely to trim videos in app. EDIT: You can edit the species in your collection. Yipee! Now to get video trim feature!

I just installed this today and set it up so I'm still figuring all of it out, but it wasn't a great sign when I opened the app for the very first time and clicked on the hummingbird notification while I was waiting for my camera to charge, and got an error screen. everything I click in the app, all the articles and blog posts, take forever to load, as does my live stream even though it is literally 15 ft from my router.

The recent changes to force people to subscribe are very anti-customer. The app is decent but not without issues. It's nice to get videos of the birds but it often is a video of them leaving and then 45 seconds of the empty feeder. I really want to love the device/app/service but I don't. Watching the birds makes me happy but knowing that I am missing 75% of their visits is frustrating.

What’s new

Bug fixes and performance improvements