iBird Ultimate Guide to Birds

Wonderful birding app. I have recommended it to countless folks over the years. It’s especially compelling to the young bird enthusiasts and those just becoming acquainted with the avian world. A must have app for any nature lover at a steal of a price. I love my bird books and this app is a multidimensional companion to them. Happy birding!

This app is good. It has replaced the National Geographic Field Guide and in so doing has reduced the weight of my field kit by a couple of pounds.

Playing sounds, the app always starts with top-most sound regardless of which is selected. Not acceptable in some circumstances. Has lost personal notes with update. Overall a great app, despite bugs.

I’ve always had a fascination with birds, and even as a young man had field guides that were very useful nevertheless, I always came up a little short in learning what I really wanted to learn about birds. For example, I always wanted to be able to identify them by their song and I was never able to do that. Now with iBird Ultimate I’ve already begun to see birds, hear birds, and then listen to the sound in the app and memorize it making me now able to finally begin to name birds just by hearing

My fave bird app—just upgraded to Ultimate after years of iBird pro and was so happy that I could now clear the selected bird with the x instead of backspacing my way out. Mixed glee when I found that playback wants to start with the top listed sound instead of the one I select and most annoying it defaults to cycle thru the calls/songs of the selected bird. The app will eventually train me to check the cycle switch before I use playback but the bit about it choosing the first item on the play