iBird UK Pro Guide to Birds app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 9120 ratings )

Reference Education
Developer: Mitch Waite Group

14.99 USD

Current version: 10.06, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 30 Mar 2011
App size: 1019.66 Mb

iBird United Kingdom and Ireland Pro, the world’s most popular identification app to birds of the UK, is now available as Version 10.06. iBird UK Pro now offers two powerful features: Birds Around Me (BAM) and Percevia™ smart search. Smart search lets you identify birds just like the experts while BAM only shows species that are found in your GPS area. We’ve also added our new Time of Day search feature which lets you filter birds by activity intervals during day or night (Cathemeral), dawn and dusk (Crepuscular), during the day (Diurnal) or during the night (Nocturnal).
More Details of What’s New: bit.ly/ibird-whatsnew

Whether you are an experienced birder or a beginner at birding, iBird UK Pro contains more birds than any UK app, including 343 common and rare species designated by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).

With the iBird UK Pro’s avian matching system you can search for birds by color, location, shape, habitat or any one of our 38 identification field marks to find your bird. iBirds comprehensive species pages have 1,200 built-in bird songs, 1,500 professional high resolution bird photographs, 900 hand drawn composite illustrations and over 350 range maps.

Version 10.06 of iBird UK Pro Guide to Birds now includes iCloud for backing up and sharing your own photos, notes and favorites among all your devices and a migration feature for moving from Dropbox to iCloud.

** NOTE If you would like to try out iBird with no financial investment, check the newly released iBird UK LITE Free Guide to Birds of North America. It has all the features of paid iBird UK Pro, but contains just 50 species. And it’s completely FREE. **

Whether you are an experienced birder or a beginner, iBird UK is the most authoritative guide to UK Birds you’ll need.

Features

iBird UK Pro Version 10.06 now contains these exciting features:

● iPhone X and retina-mode compatibility.

● Birds Around Me and Percevia smart search now available as in-app purchases.

● 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 2017 BTO checklist.

● View all birds by head which makes identification easier.

● Back up and sync favorites 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 UK contains these time-tested features:

● The ‘Birds Around Me’ narrows the search list to just those birds centred on your GPS location, within a specified radius and a specific season.

● The patented Percevia™ intelligent search prevents you from making the wrong choice when searching for your bird.

● The only birding app that includes both Illustrations and Photos.

● Spectrographic audio display brings insight to the structure of bird songs by allowing you to view the sounds frequency components.

● Every species is shown perched and in flight and most show major seasonal, age and male/female variations.

● Identify 343 species of both native and rare birds.

● Save multiple personal species lists and your sightings in Notes which can be backed up and synced in iCloud.

● Hundreds of carefully selected and edited sound recordings from the Xeno-Canto Community of bird song recordists.

● Filter birds by countries, regions and coasts, 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 the BTO 5 band code.

● Comprehensive seasonal and migratory range maps include subspecies.

We invite all users to share their comments and ideas on our forum at www.whatbird.com/forum/

Pros and cons of iBird UK Pro Guide to Birds app for iPhone and iPad

iBird UK Pro Guide to Birds app good for

Great application. Would be even greater if we could identify birds through their song more easily; through phonetic transcription maybe... But Im not sure if that would even be feasible. Pleeaaase !!!!! Create an app for birds of France!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like its bigger brother iBird Pro (North American) counterpart, iBird UK is a wonderfully crafted and useful app. However, the birds arent being updated with illustrations and information found in its NA counterpart. Though adding features is fantastic its the actual birds themselves that make the app what it is. Please update Mitch!!

Just come back from Shetland and i found it very useful! U need it :)

My husband and I have been coming to the west of Ireland for the last 30 years, but I have not done much birding here. I recently arrived in Ireland and loaded this app. I have an app on my phone from National Geographic and find this app better. Multiple audio calls and photos for each bird as well as the "range" feature are most helpful. I have already identified many birds not common to the US.

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What a guide book for traveling to the UK or Ireland. Locations to visit, what birds/fowl to see.. With that out of the way I would like to review iBird UK 3.2. For comparison, I will be using iBird Pro HD (iPad) as this app shares many of the same characteristics as the iPhone version. One noticeable feature that caught my eye in the iBird UK was the inclusion of Conservation Status in the basic search (Ecology in iBird Pro but buried in extras), where you can instantly see bird species approaching or in protective status. While in any specific bird/species, when selecting identify, you get the “Codes and Conservation” information right at the top of the page. One of the neato (high geek factor) features is the new wave form and spectrogram additions to the sounds feature. I have spent hours on this one alone, like I said geek factor =10. And while we are on sounds, my 3yr old found another fun one. Shake the phone while on any species and it will pick a random bird and start playing the call of that bird.. Again lots o fun for the little ones (and young at heart). Movie birds: are you fans of the little known Potter series.. Many of the birds mentioned in this little known kids series are found in the app. Yet another educational tool for the family. One note of mention. This app as well as all of the other iBird apps is a stand alone app not requiring a network connection. This is really noticeable when out in the middle of nowhere and being able to pull up the searches quickly without waiting for the app to connect. There are to many refinements to this app over the Pro app for us in the states to mention and hope to see in future updates to the Waite Groups fine stable of apps. Another 5 star from me for another job well done and to a development group that doesn’t stop with a single release and wait for the $$ to roll in.

This app is terrific, and has new features that I hope will be coming to the North American apps soon. The sound quality is amazing, and is enhanced by the amplitude and spectrograms for each sound. Most birds have multiple recordings with well-written descriptions. I really enjoy the photo slideshow, which you can set up to view by photographer, species, or family. Having the sound recordings play at the same time has really helped me identify calls. I was also impressed by the artwork and the high quality of photographs. The search engine is easy to use and quickly lets me identify birds, I love that I can take this anywhere and not need an internet connection for this app to work. I have 2 other UK bird apps, and this is by far the best. It is the most comprehensive, has the most photos and sounds, and is a pleasure to use. I 100% recommend this bird app.

I have been using iBird Explorer Pro for a couple of years, and everyone I show it to runs out to buy a version of iBird for themselves. I have not seen any paper field guide that is as easy to use or has as much information as iBird. Since I love the North American version, I was eager to see the birds from the British Isles. I am delighted to report that iBird UK is brilliant, and has a number of improvements over iBird Pro. The coolest new thing, by far, is the slide show with the song for each bird playing as its photo is displayed. (I hope this feature will be added to the older iBird apps in the next upgrades.) I am gradually learning to recognize many birds just from their songs. Almost all of this app is self contained – that is, you don’t need an Internet connection to use it. Therefore, it is perfect for using in the field. You can search for a bird by entering its characteristics, check out the bird’s range and habitat, compare the bird to photos, and listen to the bird’s songs right there in the field. And for people who like to keep records, the notes function lets you write a note, including the date, time, and location automatically entered from your iPhone data, and associate it with a specific bird you might have just seen. The extras that do require an Internet connection, Birdpedia, Flickr, the iBird manual, the photographers’ websites, etc. are all things that are not essential to identifying a bird. I give this app 5 stars without any hesitation or reservation!

I have IBird Pro and this is just as wonderful. I upgraded from an iPhone 4 16g to an iPhone 4s 64g JUST to accommodate more bird apps! ALL of the IBird apps blow away the competition(I own their apps TOO). Just keeps getting better and better and better. The IBird apps are my very favorite out of my 300 or so apps!! They are worth EVERY PENNY.

It has all the nice things as the N Am version but the lack of multiple illustrations is a major drawback. How is it possible to show only male ducks, and only one plumage for the males? Same issue for many other species.

It is a great way to prepare for a trip. You can limit your region, which brings up just the birds you are most likely to see. Then you can study them one at a time, painting, photos, songs, range, information. An improvement would be to also restrict by season(s).

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