Bird Jar: Birding Checklist
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About Bird Jar: Birding Checklist
Bird Jar is a world-wide bird checklist app that helps you keep track of your bird sightings.
Important note: It is recommended that you enable the following 3 permissions for Bird Jar to work properly: "Location" (used as a default for bird sighting locations that you create), "Microphone" (used for recording bird audio), and "Storage" (used to store your bird photos, audio, and bird list backups and exports).
View the Bird Jar FAQ here: http://firsttrees.homeip.net/BirdJar/jsp/faq.jsp
- Over 10,600 bird species are included in the listing (all known bird species, per the IOC World Bird List v 6.2).
- This is not intended to be a bird identification app, however photos or illustrations are provided from the Bird Jar webserver for over 1300 birds. Many images of North American and European birds are included.
- Filter birds from the following regions: North America (Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and the lower 48 United States), Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania/Pacific Ocean (including Hawaii), Southern Atlantic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean.
- You may filter on one or more regions, or show all world birds.
- Browse all birds by bird family.
- Quickly view bird family counts, as well as your life list counts per bird family.
- View all your recent sightings.
- Search for birds, bird families, and sighting locations.
- View bird conservation status.
- Perform a Web Search on each bird, which gives you internet search results for a bird's photos, songs, range maps, and Wikipedia entry. (Requires network connection.)
- Record bird sightings by date and location, including bird count. (Note: at the present time, it is highly recommended that every so often you perform a "backup and email" of your data, via the Settings page. This will ensure that you can restore your data if you ever lose or upgrade your device. See http://firsttrees.homeip.net/BirdJar/jsp/faq.jsp#faq17 for details. As of version 1.5, Bird Jar automatically backs up your data to Google's cloud service, so that it will be automatically restored upon re-installing Bird Jar on a new device.)
- Record unidentified bird sightings.
- Take or import photos, and make bird call recordings. These can then be viewed either on the bird details page, or all at once on the Photos and Recordings page.
- Enter notes.
- View all sightings by date and/or location.
- Save custom sighting locations.
- Save birds to custom categories.
- View your Life List checklist.
- Most views have customizable sort and filter options.
- View sighting maps.
- Email a bird sighting report.
- Export bird sightings to the eBird record format (which can then be imported into the eBird web application).
- Backup and restore your bird sighting data.
For any questions, issues, or requests, please email firsttreessoftware@gmail.com
Happy birding!
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Important Information!
If you intend to use Bird Jar on multiple devices, be aware:
1. Separate devices will not auto sync.
2. To get data from one device to another, you may perform a backup on one device and then transfer the backup file to the other device to restore it.
3. Very Important! If you make any change on a particular device, that device's Bird Jar data will be automatically uploaded to Google's app data server. Then, the next time you perform a new install on a device, this data will automatically be brought down into Bird Jar. Only one copy of data will ever exist on the Google servers, so if you have 2 devices with Bird Jar installed on each device, making a change in Bird Jar will upload *that* device's Bird Jar data to the Google server, replacing the Bird Jar data that is stored on the server. For this reason, it is recommended that you use Bird Jar on only one device at a time.
Important note: It is recommended that you enable the following 3 permissions for Bird Jar to work properly: "Location" (used as a default for bird sighting locations that you create), "Microphone" (used for recording bird audio), and "Storage" (used to store your bird photos, audio, and bird list backups and exports).
View the Bird Jar FAQ here: http://firsttrees.homeip.net/BirdJar/jsp/faq.jsp
- Over 10,600 bird species are included in the listing (all known bird species, per the IOC World Bird List v 6.2).
- This is not intended to be a bird identification app, however photos or illustrations are provided from the Bird Jar webserver for over 1300 birds. Many images of North American and European birds are included.
- Filter birds from the following regions: North America (Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and the lower 48 United States), Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania/Pacific Ocean (including Hawaii), Southern Atlantic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean.
- You may filter on one or more regions, or show all world birds.
- Browse all birds by bird family.
- Quickly view bird family counts, as well as your life list counts per bird family.
- View all your recent sightings.
- Search for birds, bird families, and sighting locations.
- View bird conservation status.
- Perform a Web Search on each bird, which gives you internet search results for a bird's photos, songs, range maps, and Wikipedia entry. (Requires network connection.)
- Record bird sightings by date and location, including bird count. (Note: at the present time, it is highly recommended that every so often you perform a "backup and email" of your data, via the Settings page. This will ensure that you can restore your data if you ever lose or upgrade your device. See http://firsttrees.homeip.net/BirdJar/jsp/faq.jsp#faq17 for details. As of version 1.5, Bird Jar automatically backs up your data to Google's cloud service, so that it will be automatically restored upon re-installing Bird Jar on a new device.)
- Record unidentified bird sightings.
- Take or import photos, and make bird call recordings. These can then be viewed either on the bird details page, or all at once on the Photos and Recordings page.
- Enter notes.
- View all sightings by date and/or location.
- Save custom sighting locations.
- Save birds to custom categories.
- View your Life List checklist.
- Most views have customizable sort and filter options.
- View sighting maps.
- Email a bird sighting report.
- Export bird sightings to the eBird record format (which can then be imported into the eBird web application).
- Backup and restore your bird sighting data.
For any questions, issues, or requests, please email firsttreessoftware@gmail.com
Happy birding!
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Important Information!
If you intend to use Bird Jar on multiple devices, be aware:
1. Separate devices will not auto sync.
2. To get data from one device to another, you may perform a backup on one device and then transfer the backup file to the other device to restore it.
3. Very Important! If you make any change on a particular device, that device's Bird Jar data will be automatically uploaded to Google's app data server. Then, the next time you perform a new install on a device, this data will automatically be brought down into Bird Jar. Only one copy of data will ever exist on the Google servers, so if you have 2 devices with Bird Jar installed on each device, making a change in Bird Jar will upload *that* device's Bird Jar data to the Google server, replacing the Bird Jar data that is stored on the server. For this reason, it is recommended that you use Bird Jar on only one device at a time.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
- Fixed an issue with taking photos and importing images on some devices. Note: for best results it is recommended that you import images from your device's 'Gallery' app.
- Thumbnail images should now display at the correct orientation.
- Bug fixes.
Happy Birding!
- Fixed an issue with taking photos and importing images on some devices. Note: for best results it is recommended that you import images from your device's 'Gallery' app.
- Thumbnail images should now display at the correct orientation.
- Bug fixes.
Happy Birding!
More downloads Bird Jar: Birding Checklist reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
Version update Bird Jar: Birding Checklist was updated to version 1.14
Version update Bird Jar: Birding Checklist was updated to version 1.12
More downloads Bird Jar: Birding Checklist reached 500 - 1 000 downloads
What are users saying about Bird Jar: Birding Checklist
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Great app. Just what i needed. Cannot find Eastern Saw-wing. Should be on the list. Please help.
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Cannot delete sightings checked in error. That's pretty basic. Common names are messed up. Example, try to find a White-winged Crossbill. Avoid this app before you put too much time into it.
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This app is very easy to use. Occasionally, I have issues when N. American names differ from international names, but these are generally easy to resolve with minimum effort. A link to a desktop equivalent would make me rate this app as 5 stars. I prefer not to store all my bird photos on my phone since there are so many, and they are large files taken with a DSLR camera. Thus, they would presumably use up a lot of storage space on my phone. The mapping part of the app is very good, but it is sometimes difficult to get the "long press" to actually register in order to move the marker. Not sure if that is due to my phone or to the app.
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Truly the best life-listing app there is. (But for other lists, I recommend Audubon.)
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This is a great app for maintaining lists of identified birds and viewing the lists in various ways. It won't help you identify birds but it is fine for recording sightings. I would give it 5 stars if the method for entering new locations wasn't so painful. It makes minimal use of GPS, and the map where you have to drag a pointer to show the location is too small and can't be expanded. It really does include all of the world's birds though, which is great if you travel. The backup feature is also good.
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This app is even better than eBird. You can choose from a checklist and if you don't want a date/location you don't have to put it in. Well worth 99¢. Also, if the developers are reading this, it would be nice if you could pick taxonomies (e.g. ABA) so that the species in your field guides matches the common or scientific name? thanks!
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Bird sightings recording software's
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Cannot delete sightings checked in error. That's pretty basic. Common names are messed up. Example, try to find a White-winged Crossbill. Avoid this app before you put too much time into it.
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I've been looking for a way to retire my paper notebook and this is it!
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The learning curve is short, and there's no better app for keeping track of birds seen; entering old data is ponderous with the location function, but still, this is the best app here.
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Brilliant app. I'm in my late 60's and find using tablets difficult. I have a Samsung P-900 and have tried several bird logging apps. As a test, first entry is Alpine Chough. Most apps don't recognise it but yours does. One problem for me is I have so many sightings over the years that when I go back and log them, then finding the location on the map takes me a lot of time. I would be happy if in a future update it is possible to just input Latitude/Longitude into a box (if this then automatically took the location to the map, so much the better even if this meant having to pay for the app).
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I like this product - it is flexible and has a lot of readily available references for most common birds.
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I love this app because it is very easy to log the birds and has pictures for most of them. It has great bang for the buck. I definitely recommend this app for bird lovers.
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I got this for my niece's tablet and she loves it so much that I am buying it for myself. And she is the birder! Great value in this app!
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A GREAT birder's app. I'm using it to transfer my life list to digital format from the original index filing cards dating back to the 80s. You've got to love the ease of adding dates or locations at will, or not! Some of my most common birds like the Mallard, &c., have no "first sighting" date or locale. This app is very variable that way. Very well thought out and designed.
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I was looking for an app that would provide a bird list for me and my kids. I wanted it to gather date and location easily, and this does. It also allows me to snap a pic of my sighting or record it. That's a bonus. I'm looking forward to using this frequently.
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Absolutely love this app! Definitely should have more downloads than it does. Try it out and it won't disappoint!
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Errors when attempting to upload or take photos. A nice app for keeping a list though.