eBird

I’d love to see a widget for easy accessibility

App is very clunky and difficult to navigate. Need the ability to log a checklist from anywhere in the country instead of only in my close radius. Birds should be sorted by location by showing the most recent birds up top. So much scrolling to find the birds that are actually at the location. Would love the ability to see a profile or photo of the birds by clicking the species in the checklist options.

I love ebird

While EBird’s cousin Merlin is mostly for beginners, (although it is still amazing), it is mostly for newer birders learning still. EBird is the best place for everybody of all skill levels to find birds, report birds, and keep track of the ones you’ve seen

I often go birding with my ipad because i have a keyboard attached. I like the larger screen. This is not compatible with an iPad, and I didn’t see a description that explicitly said that. Too bad, thus the 3 star rating.

Deleting this app. Can’t get past purchase packs screen. Disappointing.

I have been birding for over 20 years and I started using this app for a local bird count. You will get an email if you see an uncommon or rare bird man-splaining to you that I IDed it wrong despite my report notes. This app also marks reports that are valid with explanations for the identification provided as “incomplete.” Not everyone is an amateur, so don’t assume we are ignorant, and if you want to expand bird science as you claim, especially in the transition areas where I live and regularly see some rare birds, stop the rude emails and the unnecessary gatekeeping. One wonders how this man who has no EB affiliation with his email address got my email address in the first place so there’s some privacy questions about your data management that you also may want to address.

Latest update caused a lot of issues, I frequently get logged out and have to log back in and the explore tab takes forever to load or doesn’t work at all most days

Now it won’t even let me select the location so I can no longer submit lists.

It said I had 23 species but it went down to 19 this app sucks I don’t recommend

I always have problems with locations and the app crashing. Or it is just plain slow. Especially after a day of birding. Looking for something else to manage my bird lists.

I love eBird unequivocally and I use it each and every day for logging birds I see. For that purpose, it’s the best tool you can use. That being said, the look of the app is terrible, as well as many features “timing out” or just taking forever to load regardless of connection. 50% of the time I open the app and enter the explore page, it times out and I have to re enter my location and wait another 15 seconds for it to pull it up. So many people use eBird to give Cornell free data! Millions of data points every year. Conservation efforts have been largely waged on eBird data, so why aren’t the users compensated with an app they’ll actually enjoy to use? It functions as 2010 technology with proportional load times. eBird, I love you, but please improve the app.