Collins Bird Guide
Description
‘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. This definitive work has been reimagined for iPad and iPhone by birders for birders. 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 iPhone, and available to browse in full glory on your iPad. Features include: ‣ 973 species covered - 843 illustrated ‣ 3,700+ 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 1,100 carefully selected songs and calls – many by Lars Svensson ‣ Select species names from 30+ languages ‣ Expertly edited video clips for 811 species in the app (require in-app purchase) ‣ Available in English, Swedish, Norwegian, French and German ‣ Weighs nothing! Identify Assist is our brand-new subscription service. Instantly identify species from photos and recordings with cutting-edge AI. As well as this and the optional video library, 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. The latest version of the app requires iOS 17.0 or later. If you like the app, don’t forget to share the app, rate it and leave a review. Privacy Policy natureguides.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What's New
We've improved the experience of cropping images in image identification, improved several illustration annotations and fixed an issue where the Daily Bird widget wouldn't work for a few of you.
Details
- Developer
- NatureGuides Ltd.
- Main Category
- Reference
- Version
- 3.2.3
- Version Release
- 2026-03-05
- Initial Release
- 2014-08-14
- Size
- 1.2 GB
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Price
- USD 14.99
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, NB, SV
- Bundle ID
- com.touchpress.birdguide
- Version Rating
- ★ 3.96 (28)
- First Seen
- 2026-05-31
Metadata updated 2026-06-16
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| 50 | Collins Bird Guide | USD 14.99 | ★ 3.96 | 28 | 6 | 2026-03-05 |
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User Reviews
Of the 26 birding apps I have this is one of the best. It’s the most comprehensive and easy to use guide for Europe. The overview lets me home in on the bird group. Then it gets progressively more detailed. The species descriptions are good for field identification, the selection of audio recordings is excellent, the comparison with similar species handy and the range maps very informative. The illustrations are excellent with sufficient coverage of plumage by sex, age and morphs although thorough treatment is beyond the purpose of this field guide. The app works equally well on my iPhone and iPad. Thank you for such an excellent guide.
Crashes when clicking link to BWP app. Also disappointed that new release is added IAP.
Wish i had not upgraded!!
I have updated 3rd edition. It’s always crushed. Can check app? Thanks.
I really don’t like this app. Nothing ever comes up when I search on attributes.
The illustrations and text is fine but the app is almost unusable because the navigation and search function is poorly designed. They seem to want you to find species by scrolling through families in groups by photo. Sometimes searching for a species by name works and sometimes it doesn't. A simple taxonomic list would be easier.
Could you please support searching by the Other language name of bird ( thats already added in the flag icon ) ? Thanks for your great App 🌷🌷🦆🦆🐥🐥
Waste of money. Not user friendly. Only drawing no real pictures. I wish I can have my money back.
In North America I use the mobile app from Sibley, iBird Pro, and Audubon. My recent trip to Europe was not a birding; bird watching was incidental. Nevertheless, I needed a guide for those times when I encountered birds. In a brand new place and with new birds, the most fulfilling is to be able to ID on my own. The Collins Guide was excellent. The home page has groups or families of birds which makes it very easy to navigate to a groups, e.g. waders or finches, and then to scroll through the group and compare different, but similar species. I found this format far superior to any NA bird app. Species info could be expanded some, but I can’t imagine any other app format which makes it easier to find and identify new birds - the European birds were all new to me.
Thanx and thanx again to all the folks who made this app and keep all the improvements. No other try within this field could dare to compete. I wish you luck, dudes, keep on keeping on. Translate your app to as much languages as you can and add more and more features. Voices! Add more misc calls, voices, alarm calls, etc. As well as complete translations to all the languages you’ve covered for all the species names. If one day you’ll be ready for put all the texts localized — that’ll be definitely my day. Till then I just want to thank you at least for all the work you’ve done. Waiting for often updates.
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