Product Description
BirdsEye is a great for birders of any level, naturalists and educators. The free version of BirdsEye also includes stunning and detailed photographs from many top birders, bird photographers and guides.
“Best invention for birding since binoculars”… Kenn Kaufman, author of the famed Kaufman Field Guides to Birds of North America
“A landmark in birding”… John Fitzpatrick, Director, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
The free version of BirdsEye is great for beginning and intermediate birders. It shows you the 100 most common birds near you (or for any spot on earth), which is fantastic for birders who want to learn about the birds you are most likely to see in your yard or the local park.
Paid subscriptions options are available to give you access to every countable species in your region or worldwide.
Features:
INSTANT BIRD LISTS
• See customized lists of birds reported recently near you, at birding hotspots, or any random point on earth!
• Sea seasonal abundance for each bird for that location
• View recent eBird sightings and get driving directions to each one
INCREASE YOUR LIFE LIST
• See a list of “needs” – species recently reported nearby that aren’t on your selected life or year list
• Reports of rare and notable birds in your area and across the ABA region
• Automatically sync your life or year lists with eBird for the ABA area, world, country, state or even county!
TRIP PLANNING
• Find additional content in the Bird Guide Store for other continents, including sounds, images and bird-finding tips from local experts.
• Set Favorite Locations for your destinations to scope out recent sightings
• Get driving directions right to any hotspot or sighting
• Support for bird names in several languages
STORE
We have partnered with Birdsounds.nl, the premier online store selling bird sounds packages for many regions around the world. Access these extensive collections of bird songs from right inside of BirdsEye.
Currently available sound packages include:
Bird Sounds of Costa Rica, Brazil, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Mexico, Northern Siberia, Sri Lanka, Australia, Peru, Colombia, Belgium and Holland with more coming soon!
Most BirdsEye functionality is available to all of our users. Certain premium features require a regional or world membership to unlock their full potential. These membership features include:
• More checklists for species on the Rare Bird Alert (vs 3 for free users)
• List of recently reported ABA rarities
• Search for Notables up to 250 miles from current location (vs up to 50 miles for free users)
• Unlimited Favorite Locations (vs 5 for free users)
• Select Months view (only Recents for free users)
• Downloading content for offline usage
Once you have purchased a membership on the site, here is how to access it on your device:
- Download BirdsEye (FREE!) for your phone
- Register BirdsEye using the same email address you used for your purchase and your membership will be immediately available.
Just contact the BirdsEye Help Desk if you have any questions or trouble getting set up. We are happy to help!
More info about why we have memberships
BirdsEye is the product of many person-years of labor from hundreds of people. Money brought in from selling BirdsEye has never been enough to cover our costs even with the help of volunteers. We are able to balance our budget through generous contributions from users. One important way you can help is through a membership. If you like what we do and would like to help support future improvements, please consider becoming a member for about what it costs to buy a coffee and muffin to start a day of birding.
People have asked where our money goes and in an attempt to be transparent about what the membership fees pay for, here is a partial list:
App Stores: Apple and Google both take the first 30% of all revenue. But not if you buy a membership through this site, so thanks for considering this option!
Development: our largest cost by far is development: fixing bugs, adapting to new versions of operating system as they comeout, adding new features and supporting new platforms. BirdsEye requires a wide range of skills: wireframing, database, iOS client, Android client, website, web app, html, etc. Most of our developers are birders who help out at reduced rates because they like what we do, but still it costs money.
Managing photos, sounds and text: Making sure all the photos are identified correctly is mostly done in our spare time, but we are regularly adding new content, updating text and more.
Royalties: we pay a portion of the money we receive to The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, VIREO, and other 3rd-party content providers. For content packages like The Bird Sounds of Peru, we pay a total of 79% to the content provider.
Marketing: we spend money on newsletters and advertisements.
Customer Support: As you might imagine, customer support can feel like a thankless task. We are lucky to have George helping out. He gets paid a lot less than he’s worth.
Server hosting: BirdsEye needs multiple fairly beefy servers to be able to provide fast response times to our many users in the field.
Taxes: even though we have never earned a profit we still need to pay various federal, state and local taxes.
The leaders of the project do it for fun, not for profit. No one makes a full-time salary from the BirdsEye apps and we regularly contribute personal money to keep it afloat. All this is to say, we need and appreciate your support to continue to develop the apps!
Once you have purchased a sound collection on the site, here is how to access it on your device:
- Download BirdsEye (FREE!) for your phone
- Register or login to BirdsEye using the same email address you used for your purchase and your sound collections will be immediately available.
- You can download the sound collection for offline use, or access it via the internet as you need it to save space. It’s up to you. You can clear the sounds from your device and download as many times as you want.
Just contact the BirdsEye Help Desk if you have any questions or trouble getting set up. We are happy to help!
Purchasing sound collections also gives you access to eBird sightings, images and text for the species that are included in the sound package, for FREE! Simply download BirdsEye onto your phone for FREE and register with the same email address you used to make this purchase. Your purchased sound package will be at your fingertips. No additional purchase is necessary.
To download all of the sounds for offline use, just go to Settings and then choose Download for Offline. Enjoy!
