iBird Canada, considered the world’s most popular identification app to birds of Canada and the United States, takes a major leap forward with “Time of Day” filtering available in version 10.06 You can now search for birds by activity levels during day or night (Cathemeral), dawn and dusk (Crepuscular), during the day (Diurnal) or during the night (Nocturnal). iBird is the only app that offers Birds Around Me (BAM)—showing just those species in your GPS location. It also features our patented Percevia™ smart search, which helps you identify birds just like the birding experts.
iBird Canada contains all 692 common and rare species found in the territories and provinces of Canada and the upper regions of the United States including Alaska. It is designed to help both experienced and novice birders identify and learn about their birds. Unlike other iPhone apps, iBird includes is completely up to date with the 2017 AOU checklist.
Birders seeing a wider range including the entire North American continent may want to review our iBird Plus, Pro and Ultimate products.
More Details of What’s New: bit.ly/ibird-whatsnew
With the iBird Canada’s avian matching system you can search for birds by color, location, shape, habitat or any one of our 37 identification field marks to find your bird. iBirds comprehensive species pages have 1,700 built-in bird songs, 2,500 professional high resolution bird photographs, 1,000 hand drawn composite illustrations and over 1,000 range maps.
Version 10.06 of iBird Canada Guide to Birds now includes iCloud for backing up and sharing your own photos, notes and favorites among all your devices.
** NOTE: If you would like to try out iBird and spend no money, check out the newly released iBird LITE Free Guide to Birds of North America. It contains all the features of paid iBird Canada, including BAM, but contains just 50 species. And it’s completely FREE. **
Features
■ iBird now takes advantage of the high-resolution retina displays of the iPhone and iPad so the screen shows more information than ever.
■ Contains the latest 2016/17 AOU checklists.
■ Splits-History. See what birds were renamed, split into different species or lumped together for every year.
■ View all birds by head which makes identification easier.
■ Back up and sync favourites and notes with iCloud and share with all your devices and your friends.
■ Fun new birder’s “stickers” to spruce up your text in Messages.
Other Features
iBird Canada contains these time-tested features:
■ The only birding app that includes both Illustrations and Photos.
■ Every species is shown perched and in flight and most show major seasonal, age and male/female variations.
■ Identify 689 species of both native and rare Canadian birds.
■ In-depth descriptions including information on size, appearance, habitat, behaviour, and more.
■ Save multiple personal species lists and your sightings in Notes which can be backed up and synced in iCloud.
■ Includes thousands of carefully selected and edited sound recordings from the Xeno-Canto Community of bird song recordists.
■ Filter birds by territory, province or body of water, so that you see only the species likely to occur in your location.
■ iBird’s icon-driven visual search engine, with 35 attributes, enables you to identify birds using shape, colour, location, habitat, head pattern, flight pattern, bill shape, length and much more.
■ Search by common name, Latin name and even band code.
■ Comprehensive seasonal and migratory range maps include subspecies.
Additional Features
■ The only app with a field mark layer which displays key ID marks for male, female, juvenile.
■ All new range maps now include Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall ranges plus Year-round and Migration ranges.
■ The Conservation Status search attribute lets you filter birds by 6 threat levels. The standard is maintained by Birdlife International and is called the IUCN Red List.