App Description
** See more birds with BirdsEye Costa Rica! **
"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 Costa Rica makes planning a birding trip and getting to know the Costa Rican birds easy. The hardest part of birding a new area is learning which birds are expected and which are rare. BirdsEye makes lists of nearby birds, rare and unexpected species, and maps of birding hotspots quick and easy to find.
With the BirdsEye Bird Finding Guide to Costa Rica, you’ll find more birds with our bird finding tips by famed field guide author Kenn Kaufman, and expert field ornithologists Oscar Johnson, John van Dort and Peter Boesman, along with our detailed photographs and multiple bird songs. You’ll find yourself in the right place, at the right time, with crucial information at your fingertips.
Key Features:
• Includes all 867 regularly-occurring species in Costa Rica
• Photos and text
• Real-time bar charts showing seasonal abundance of birds in each area, including Monteverde, Manuel Antonio, San Jose, the Osa Peninsula, La Selva Lodge, Tamarindo and the Savegre Valley
• See maps of birding hotspots, and where birds have been reported recently by other birders
• Import your year and life lists for the world or for Costa Rica from eBird, or manually enter your list so
• See a list of birds reported recently nearby, and which of those would be new for you!
• Quick links to Wikipedia and Flickr for even more content
Limitations to be aware of: BirdsEye is not a field guide, it is an indispensable field tool for finding birds. Sounds are available only for the migrants from North America. An active internet connection is required for sightings and to download images and sounds for the first time. Photos are available for more than 95% species but are missing for a few birds that are rare in Costa Rica. Please consider contributing photos at: birdsinthehand.com/photos
Sign up for 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 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)
Have instant access to eBird reports from your phone. View detailed maps to pinpoint the birds you want to see, whether they are around the corner or across the country. See more birds!
You’ll quickly plan your trips, and when you’re on the move BirdsEye will deliver instant advice from millions of sightings and thousands of experienced eBirders.
We is committed to supporting citizen science, the birding community and bird conservation. We are proud to provide financial support to the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Every BirdsEye purchase you make directly supports the eBird project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. We think they’re worth it—now and for the future of birds and their habitats.
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Real-time access to several million bird sightings submitted each month to the eBird project at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
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App Changes
- May 22, 2014 Initial release
- May 22, 2014 Price decrease: $4.99 -> FREE!
- May 24, 2014 Price increase: FREE! -> $6.99
- September 21, 2014 Price increase: $6.99 -> $9.99
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