eBird

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.

I wish I could opt out of installing packs to use this. I can’t get past the pack installing screen because it keeps getting stuck. Should be an option to just use the online features without installing anything for offline.

I use to love this app but now I can’t use it. It will not track or load a bird pack at all. I’ve done everything I know to do. When it did work it crashed and froze often. Hopefully someone will sort it out.

I used to be able to add photos to my list from my iPhone. Now I have to take a photo and download it to a computer. There is a media button then to add photo. It more complicated than I’m willing to do.

I downloaded this app so Merlin would save my daily sightings to EBird as requested in the app. However this app never lets me get past the screen to download packs so it is a brick. Emailed support and no response. Don’t bother with this app. If Cornell wants to continue getting subscriptions and donations, they might want to make apps work or atleast set up a way for us enthusiasts who record such information and save it to a data base easily. Hard to be a citizen scientist when reporting is not an option.

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