App Detail » BirdLog Australia and New Zealand

Published by: Birds in the Hand, LLC

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Price: FREE!
Current Version: 1.8
Released: October 23, 2012

What's New

Fixes for iOS 8

App Description

IMPORTANT: Starting in mid 2015, BirdLog will be improved and relaunched by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology as “eBird Mobile” which will be a free app.

If you are considering purchasing BirdLog please be aware that it will be replaced soon by eBird Mobile. If you do decide to purchase, thank you! 100% of the proceeds of your purchase will go to supporting the launch of eBird Mobile.

We would like to take a moment to thank the many people in the birding community who have contributed time, money and sightings to the BirdLog and eBird. We have worked hard and dedicated years of hard work to BirdLog. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to get in touch using the “support” link below or through our website.

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Enter your sightings into eBird right from the field with BirdLog. You can even create checklists when there is no cellphone data coverage for later upload when you return to an area with cellphone or wifi.

BirdLog ANZ is the ideal bird field data recording tool for Australia and New Zealand. Forget about notebooks, pencils and sitting at your computer. Transform your bird sightings into eBird submissions to build your own lists while sharing your sightings and supporting conservation.

You’ll enter more lists with BirdLog and enter them more accurately. It is easy to tally birds as you go—and thus counting them more accurately, automatically capturing the time and duration, and using the device’s GPS and map interface for mapping precise sighting locations.

BirdLog was developed by active eBird users as a power app for submitting data into eBird. If you are not already familiar with eBird, we recommend that you visit ebird.org and register before using BirdLog the first time.

BirdLog allows you to:

-- Plot the exact location of your sightings using your phone's GPS

-- Easily increment species counts with a single tap or search the checklist using 4-letter codes based on Australian or New Zealand common names

-- Create new personal locations or choose an existing hotspot or personal location for your checklist

-- Create checklists even when there is no cellphone coverage for later submission to eBird

-- Automatically keeps track of day and trip lists that you can email to yourself or friends

-- Enter birds quickly and easily as you see them using bird codes or full names

-- Scroll and review your checklist before submitting it

BirdLog is a universal app for crystal-clear use on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Our company is committed to birds, the birding community and bird conservation. Every BirdsLog purchase you make directly supports the eBird project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

This version includes all of the species from Australia and New Zealand (plus outlying islands including Kermadec, Chatham, Auckland and Bounty. Our world version, called "BirdsEye BirdLog -- Worldwide" is available for birders who want worldwide coverage. The advantages of the ANZ version compared to the world version are that:

1) this list of birds in the ANZ version is restricted to just those species, subspecies and species groups that are known to occur in Australia or New Zealand, so the taxonomy takes up less memory and is faster to load and use in the field. This difference is hardly noticeable on newer iPhones but can make a meaningful difference on older (pre-4S) iPhones.

2) The ANZ taxonomy is based on the Clements list and uses eBird's common names in Australian and New Zealand English. In cases where New Zealand and Australian names are different, the names have been combined to avoid possible confusion.

3) The ANZ version uses the list of ANZ birds as the default list for creating offline checklists. This is handy when birding away from cell-phone coverage in the bush!