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App Detail » BirdsEye West - Bird Finding Guide to Western North America

Published by: Birds in the Hand, LLC

iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad

Price: $4.99
Current Version: 1.8
Released: June 24, 2013

What's New

This is a huge release for BirdsEye West and brings the app in line with the flagship BirdsEye app in features.

Thanks to those of you who sent us feedback! We made a lot of fixes and improvements in this upgrade and we hope you'll like it:

• Favorite locations! - set up your favorites to quickly explore those areas.
• See sightings just at a hotspot - Just set "Distance to Search" to 0 to see only bird sightings at that particular hotspot
• Set a Distance to Search and Timeframe for each of your Favorite Locations: Great for trip planning or your local patch
• Notable Sightings up to 50 miles or km from your current location; BirdsEye members can see reports up to 250 miles (** see below for more information on membership)

There is also a long list of improvements and tweaks to make BirdsEye run more smoothly, including:
• Option to sort your life or year list in taxonomic or alpha order
• When exploring sightings, the map comes up centered on the location you selected rather than defaulting to current location. This is a big improvement for trip planning.
• Updated Flickr link

App Description

See more birds with BirdsEye Bird Finding Guide to Western North America!

"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

BirdsEye West is a simple but powerful tool for birders, covering 522 of the most common species in Western North America:
• Get an instant list of birds reported recently near you, at birding hotspots across the western US, or any random point on the map!
• BAR CHARTS showing seasonal abundance for each bird
• See a list of “needs” - species recently reported nearby that aren't on your 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!
• Support for several version of Spanish bird names, scientific names, French and several other language options

Get a FREE Birds in the Hand account to:
• Back up your life lists
• Sync your life lists with eBird
• See NEEDS lists based on birds not currently on your life list
• Sync your account across devices.

Subscribe to an optional monthly BIRDSEYE MEMBERSHIP to:
• Unlock all the media available in the app for each bird (new photos and updates available daily)
• View up to 10 checklists for Notable and Rare species (vs 3 for non-members)
• Search for Notables up to 100 & 250 miles from current location (vs up to 50 miles for non-members)
• Unlimited Favorite Locations (vs 3 for non-members)

We are committed to supporting the birding community and bird conservation through the eBird project. We think they’re worth it—now and for the future of birds and their habitats.

MORE ON BIRDSEYE:

BirdsEye uses your device's GPS to display all recent sightings near your current spot out to any distance you select from 1 to 250 miles (or km).

Looking for a specific bird? Search for birds by name (or code) to find out where it has been seen recently, and show you the exact location on a map.

BirdsEye NA provides essential distribution, behavior and habitat text from Kenn Kaufman to help you find the bird once you get to the right spot. Stunning and detailed photographs from many top birders, bird photographers and guides will help remind you of the field marks you're looking for.

If you use eBird, you can import your eBird year or life lists for the whole world, the ABA area, a country, a single State/Province or even your county! You can also manually enter your life list or edit the list imported from eBird. Your lists are automatically backed up online.

BirdsEye is optimized for display on your iPhone and your iPod Touch, and also works as an iPhone app on iPad.

Your monthly BIRDSEYE MEMBERSHIP will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase, and will automatically renew each month and your credit card will be charged to your iTunes Account. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscriptions and auto-renew at any point from your iTunes account settings. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period.
See to birdseyebirding.com/privacy for more information.