Press Release – BirdsEye Nature Apps

Odonata Central Launches New Website!

amanda — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:55:00 +0000

Odonata Central is a citizen science website dedicated to dragonflies and damselflies — insects of the order Odonata. The site has been a repository for data on Odonata for many years. But now with a new, streamlined website, contributing your sightings is easier than ever before!

Revamping Odonata Central is a major project that BirdsEye has been contributing toward. Along with our Dragonfly ID App, we hope these efforts bring renewed attention to dragonflies and damselflies.

The data collected by Odonata Central helps scientists understand the distribution, biogeography, biodiversity, and identification of Odonata. On the new site, you can enter all of your observations and manage your personal lists, with a streamlined data entry and browsing system. Powerful data filters make it easy to sort through species lists and find exactly what you’re looking for. And you can now import observations directly from iNaturalist. Plus, iNaturalist sightings are included on maps so you can view other sightings near you!

Odonata Central is extremely user-friendly and ready for your data. Register for an account today!

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BirdsEye for iOS Gets an Update

amanda — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 23:01:00 +0000

Thanks to feedback from many users and testing done by our team, we have made some improvements and added a few new features to the BirdsEye Bird Finding Guide!

The update to version 2.6.1 includes:

New formatting for efficiency across all device sizes
Improved functionality: Bugs causing issues when browsing locations and when linking to our other birding apps have been fixed!
Smart Search included on every species list for quick bird identification when in the field. To use this feature, tap the magnifying glass icon (with a ‘+’) in the top right corner of a species list page. For users familiar with these pages, this icon has taken the place of the filter icon– the filter icon is now located in the bottom corner of the species list pages.
Download your life list to your mobile device – a request we received from many users. Visit your life list page and tap the download icon in the top right corner.

We hope these updates make your birding better than ever! And as always, we would love to hear your feedback. Contact us at support@getbirdseye.com

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BirdsEye Bird Finding Guide 2.3

George Mayfield — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:25:06 +0000

What’s New in Version 2.3

We’ve spent a long time working on BirdsEye behind the scenes to make it run faster, smooth, and offer better tools for world and local birders. Some of the more exciting features are listed below.

Find New Birds

SMART SEARCH

Use color, size and habitat to quickly narrow down the list of nearby sightings to find what you are looking for. Just stepped off the plane in Sydney, Australia and want to know what that blue and white swallow hawking insects around you is? A couple taps and you’ll know that you are looking at a Welcome Swallow!

Smart Search is targeted to the traveling birder and new birders, helping you quickly learn the birds wherever you are in the world.

Not happy with one of the Smart Search results? Just swipe left over the entry and click the Feedback button to let us know! We’ll keep improving the data behind the scenes to make it all work perfectly.

Expanded Sound Library

XENO-CANTO LINK

A link to this amazing resource of bird calls and songs is now available in BirdsEye. Tap the link icon on any bird description or map screen to get a direct link to xeno-canto recordings for that species!

As in earlier versions of BirdsEye, you also have links to see bird pictures in Flickr and to additional information on species in Wikipedia.

No Internet Required

BETTER OFFLINE DATA

Offline content like images and sounds are now more robust, so it is less likely to be deleted by your phone if you are running low on storage. We want to make sure you can always access the data you need no matter where you are!

Tools for Trip Planning

CURRENT AND SELECTED MONTHS

You can now select any month, or group of months, to filter sightings when checking out Hotspots or a spot in your Favorites. We love this feature for planning trip – create a group of Favorites along your route and choose the month you’re travelling – all of the species reported in the last 5+ years for those months and location will be shown along with their abundance for the locations. Plan ahead to get the most out of your birding!

AND…

lots of bug fixes, tweaks, and improvements for improved performance and stability
updated icons and images across the app

Enjoying the update? Reviews and ratings get reset for each release. If you are feeling generous, please leave a review. Thanks in advance!

We love hearing from you! Have a question, concern, or suggestion? Get in touch with support at support@getbirdseye.com, view our FAQ at http://bith.zendesk.com, @birdseyebirding on Twitter, and facebook.com/birdseye.nature.apps

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Press Release: BirdsEye Galapagos now available

Drew — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:30:50 +0000

We are very proud to support the great work that is being done by the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galapagos National Park Directorate to conserve birds on the Galapagos Islands. Read their press release below and then go download the app.

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Identifying Birds in Galapagos Has Never Been Easier with “BirdsEye Galápagos”

The Galapagos Landbird Conservation Program, conducted by the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) and the Galapagos National Park Directorate (GNPD), is developing strategies to monitor and assess the status of landbird species in Galapagos.

Thanks to the teamwork of Birds In The Hand, LLC, the Charles Darwin Foundation, the Galapagos National Park Directorate and a generous donation from the Galapagos Conservancy, “BirdsEye Galápagos” is officially launched this week. This is a new application that will support the identification of birds in the archipelago. The application is free and is available in Apple and Android versions in English, a Spanish version will soon be accessible.

CDF and GNPD have worked together with Birds In The Hand, LLC not only to make this application user friendly and to assist in the identification of bird species in Galapagos, but also the application provides the user with interesting facts about the unique birdlife in the islands and the conservation efforts being carried out in this amazing World Heritage Site.

Birgit Fessl, Charles Darwin Foundation ornithologist, who has been leading the development of the content of the app, said: “This will be a key instrument for monitoring through “Citizen Science “, encouraging everyone to pay close attention to the small land birds, and to identify and report their observations with more confidence. Undoubtedly, it will become a very important tool for monitoring bird populations, the basis for developing conservation measures for native and endemic bird species in the Galapagos Islands. ”

“BirdsEye Galápagos” contains photographs and descriptions of each bird species that can be found in the Galapagos Islands, and information is regularly and automatically updated. An interesting component of the application is the addition of songs for hard-to-identify species,. Birgit Fessl reminds users, “the bird songs should be listened only with headphones, the use of songs to attract birds is only permitted with special permission from the GNPD because it affects the behavior of the birds.”

Additionally, using GPS technology, the app tells you where you can find a species or when the last sighting occurred.

The app also has a bar graph showing the seasonal abundance of all birds that comes directly from the observations database eBird which is part of the “Citizen Science” platform of the Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell University in the United States. This laboratory has revolutionized the way in which the community of bird watchers reports sightings and accesses information about birds in the world.

The results achieved in the monitoring of Galapagos birds will depend on the participation of naturalist guides, tourists and the entire community, through the use of “BirdsEye Galápagos” and the reports sent to eBird. The mission of Birds In The Hand, LLC is that the information collected is used practically and that it helps efforts towards the conservation of bird species worldwide.

We hope that many “BirdsEye Galápagos” users will record their observations in eBird to increase the reports available for each bird species and help protect the birds of the Galapagos Archipelago.

The “BirdsEye Galápagos” application can be downloaded for free on iPhone and Android and can be used without internet connection, which is key outside the populated areas of Galapagos.

At the moment only the English version is available. The Spanish version will be available in the next few months. Common names are now available in English and Spanish (for Ecuador).

More information:

Click here to read more about the Galapagos Landbird Conservation Program

Click here to read more about BirdsEye Apps

Contributors: Birds In The Hand, Galapagos National Park Directorate, Charles Darwin Foundation.

Donor: Galapagos Conservancy.

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