iBird Journal: Listing Birds of North America app for iPhone and iPad

4.8 ( 6528 ratings )

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Developer: Mitch Waite Group

14.99 USD

Current version: 7.22, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 21 Jun 2013
App size: 156.03 Mb

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IBIRD JOURNAL Listing Birds of North America—iBird Journal is the first app designed to make list-keeping fun, easy and most of all unforgettable! Whether you keep a life list, a backyard list or never have made a list before you’ll find iBird Journal the perfect app.

NEW IN VERSION 7.22 UPDATE

■ Completely overhauled user interface matches all MWG iBird apps.
■ Search by Common name, Band Code or Latin name with a single button.
■ Share and Print List and Observation Reports. Print any of your Lists, Checklists or individual observations to any printer on your WiFi network or share lists or observations on Facebook, Twitter, Email or by a Text Message.

iBird Journal saves observations of birds with incredible detail. It seamlessly integrates with Mitch Waite Group’s iBird - the world’s most popular line of field guide apps – but can be used with any field guide app. Here is how it works: After you have identified a bird species, simply press the journal button that is found on all species pages. The iBird Journal app starts and opens an “observation” form for the species you started with. Journal does most of the work for you by auto-magically adding your GPS location, the date and time, the weather and more. It’s up to you if you wish add more information or do it later. And Journal is the perfect app for doing “bird counts”, such as the Audubon Christmas Bird Count or the Great Backyard Bird Count.

iBird Journal not only lets you memorialize your bird sightings, it does it in an extremely efficient manner by storing data in a built-in SQLite database. Journal has built-in tools for analyzing your observations and it can export to Excel so you can analyze your observations later using any kind of reporting system.

CHECKLISTS
Most important Journal goes beyond any sighting app on the market by letting you create “checklists” of birds you would LIKE to see. Checklists are perfect for bird outings, tours and bird counts where you know what you are looking for but need a way to instantly check off those birds from a pre-made list.

SOCIAL SHARING
Journal is perfect for sharing observations on social networks – it will share your discoveries on Facebook, Twitter or by email. You can think of iBird Journal as the ultimate rare bird alert app.

REPORTING
The reporting feature in Journal lets you analyze your entire database of observations by date range, list, locations, minimum observed count and species – answering questions like ‘how many times have I seen the Black-necked Stilt between April and June of 2010 in California”?

BACKUP
You’ll never have to worry about losing your observations as Journal will back up and restore your observations one of three ways: by email in its native format, to and from any free Dropbox account or as an eBird compatible CSV file. And if you are a heavy user of eBird you can import any eBird CSV into Journal and from then on use it to send and receive eBird sightings.

iBird Journal is the perfect app to keep a record of all your bird sightings and the ultimate way to memorialize your hobby for the future.

▶ Journal is a “universal” app so it works perfectly on iPad or iPhone.

▶ No limits to number of observations.

▶ Checklists. Besides basic lists Journals checklists let you set up birds you “wish” to observe and check them off as they are found.

▶ Integrates with the entire iBird product line but works for any birding app.

▶ Reporting feature allows unlimited ways to view your lists.

Whether you wish to keep simple lists of the birds you see everyday, start a list of birds you see in the backyard, on a trip or every bird you have seen in your life, iBird Journal is the app you have been waiting for.

Note: iBird Journal is not compatible with the iPod Touch since it lacks a GPS chip.

Pros and cons of iBird Journal: Listing Birds of North America app for iPhone and iPad

iBird Journal: Listing Birds of North America app good for

More comprehensive than the ebird app and if youre worried about exporting your sightings into ebird it is very simple and straightforward. I used to use the ebird app but this one has a much friendlier user interface. Like how it shows your sightings on a map and the ability to sort them. Now just wondering when the next update will be since its been over a year.

Five stars, this app sounds wonderful and it sounds as though many many people have dedicated a great deal of effort , Im expecting a lot too.

Very useful for immediately being able to record an observation. I would, however, like better syncing between various Apple devices. I highly recommend this whole family of bird applications.

A versatile app for keeping track of your bird sightings. The one thing that would improve it would be iCloud integration and syncing across devices.

I have found this app to be much easier to use than the Audobon apps. Im just a new amateur birder, but it has really helped me!

The long wait is over and the app is pretty good. There isnt really any competition, but combine with iBird it makes a great combo.

Some bad moments

Needs a lot of work as far as editing. Just so frustrating! Dont just take the money I spent but work on the app. If I had know how hard it was to navigate I would ever have bought the app. Now that you have take my money work on it, please. Then I will give you a higher rating!!

I find it hard to enter my birds, should be open in main page, type in birds name, location and picture. Then it should file it automatically

I am very disappointed in the way ijournal handles the location by making it mandatory to have an address. You need to allow the entry of GPS location. Moving the location pin should have an option to move by GPS coordinates rather than popping up an address. Lifebirds app does a great job at nailing the location making it very easy and allows you to have one location with different precise GPS coordinates within the location I love the integration with ibirds and many of the other features but the complexity of setting location and no options for flexibility make it a deal breaker. I will continue to use lifebirds until this is fixed.

Works exactly as advertised highly recommended. I use it 2 or 3 times a week.

I have iBird Pro and this is a wonderful addition for easy notation and creation of a life list. Couldnt be happier for my use.

I am a beginning birder and I have found this app to be excellent for tracking your observations. There is also the ability to export your observations to eBird cvs format and the import is simple. A very useful app. Update: I have used this now on several bird walks (checklists are great for this) and for day to day observations. I continue to be inpressed with what a good job it does and the integration with iBird Pro is wonderful.

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