Big Year Birding ABA7.2 - App Store

Big Year Birding gives birders-from beginners to serious listers-a fast, easy way to record, organize, explore, and share their bird sightings.

Whether you’re doing a Big Year, participating in a Christmas Bird Count, traveling to a new birding destination, or simply keeping track of the birds in your backyard, Big Year Birding makes logging your sightings quick and easy.

**A Vastly Improved Birding Experience**

Big Year Birding features a completely updated and vastly improved user interface designed to make recording birds in the field faster and more intuitive than ever.

Spot a bird? Tap Add Sighting and Big Year Birding can automatically record the date, time, and GPS location, including city, state, and country. Your sightings can be displayed on a map or browsed in sortable lists.

Start typing a bird’s name and quickly select the species you’ve seen. Add a count, comments, identification by ear, sex, public or private location, and other useful details.

**Built for eBird**

Big Year Birding works seamlessly with eBird.

Import species information from eBird and easily export your sightings in an eBird-compatible format, making it simple to move observations from Big Year Birding into your eBird account.

You can also explore recent eBird sightings near your current location or another location you choose. Browse nearby reports by species, location, or date, see sightings plotted on a map, and get directions to where a bird was reported.

**Designed for Birding in the Field**

Big Year Birding continues to be useful even when you’re birding in remote areas without an internet or cellular connection.

The app includes North American bird species recognized within the ABA region, along with numerous rare and accidental species and birds added with the expansion of the ABA Area to Hawaii.

Each species can include a reference photo, and you can add your own photographs to your sightings. Links to resources such as Cornell and Wikipedia provide additional information when an internet connection is available.

**Your Lists, Your Way**

Big Year Birding is highly customizable. View and organize your sightings by date, location, or species. Filter your records to show particular dates or locations, or display unique species only.

With just a few taps, you can review your:

. Life List
. Year List
. State List
. Previous years
. Individual locations and trips
. Complete sighting history

You can also export sightings-or selected subsets of sightings-to another device running Big Year Birding, making it convenient to use an iPhone in the field and an iPad at home or to share lists with family and friends.

Share your sightings through text, email, social media, or export them to eBird.

Created by birders for birders, Big Year Birding puts your sightings, lists, maps, local bird information, and eBird tools together in one place-so you can spend less time managing your records and more time birding.

Version History MInor Bug Fixes 7.2 Sep 29 Big Year Birding has been extensively updated!
• Vastly improved, easier-to-use interface
• Import species directly from eBird
• Seamlessly export your sightings to eBird
• Faster, simpler sighting entry
• Improved maps, lists, and sighting management
• Numerous performance improvements and bug fixes
• 4 Letter Code Lookups
More birding. Less tapping. Happy birding! 7.1 Sep 16 This app has been updated by Apple to prepare for watchOS 27 compatibility. No new features are included.

Minor bug fixes and tweaks for latest iOS versions. 6.41 07/20/2023 Minor Bug Fixes and new Steller's Sea-Eagle Icon 6.03 03/21/2022 Minor fixes to Criteria Screen 5.55 01/03/2020 Version 5.50:
Support for iOS 13 . . . Dark and Light Mode
Instant sorting from Alpha to Date Order; Big to Small
New Snowy Owl Logo
All new ABA Birds (especially Hawaii), Merges and Splits, Renames (i.e. Canada Jay)
Improved Speed and Usability

Version 5.53
Fixes a problem with exports 5.53 10/26/2019 Support for iOS 13 . . . Dark and Light Mode
Instant sorting from Alpha to Date Order; Big to Small
New Snowy Owl Logo
All new ABA Birds (especially Hawaii), Merges and Splits, Renames (i.e. Canada Jay)
Improved Speed and Usability 5.5 10/04/2019 Fixes problem with eBird api changes 5.23 03/11/2019 fixes a problem transferring sightings from one iOS device to another 5.21 12/03/2018 Addresses a few issues with new larger sized iPhones.
Provides a wild card search for sightings (i.e. name contains "Sparrow", "Black" or "Warbler")
New feature displays notable e-Bird sightings within 5, 25 and 50 miles. 5.20 11/14/2018 Minor Bug Fixes
Change of Icon 5.13 04/22/2018 Fixes sizing problems with iPhone X
Fixes issues with the Find Me Button 5.11 03/29/2018 A new "Recent e-Bird Sighting" screen lets you learn what species have recently been reported near your location (or any other location).
Better access to on-line Birding Field Guides (no more ads!!!)
Minor Bug Fixes 5.00 03/21/2018 Improved User Interface
Added Additional Species to Database 4.17 03/17/2018 Improved support for iOS 11+ and the iPhone X
Minor changes to improve the user interface 4.15 02/13/2018 iOS 11 Support
Improved interface
Status Monitor when loading large number of Sightings
Fixed problem with Local Birds Tab when there is no internet signal 4.11 10/27/2017 This is Big Year Birding's biggest upgrade yet . . . you'll love it.

In Version 4.00, you'll get:
•A new "Local Birds" Screen - With a few taps, discover what birds are historically seen in your current location (all USA counties, Canadian provinces and territories), by month. Helpful photos and sighting frequency plus links to on-line resources make identification a breeze. Planning a vacation or have downtime on an out of town business trip, the "Local Birds" feature lets you research what is commonly seen this month, next month or any month in the future anywhere in the ABA region. And . . . the new “Local Birds” feature runs great with little or no internet connection . . . ideal when birding in remote areas.

•We’ve reworked our search and retrieval algorithms to make Big Year Birding operate at Peregrine Falcon speed!!!

•A new “Small/Big” toggle makes the sighting table much easier to read

•An improved interface and we’ve cleaned up a few bugs (sorry warblers) to make Big Year Birding even better.

Thanks for your support!!!! 4.00 05/31/2017 Fixes problem calculating First of Year sighting in multiple year databases
Added a new "Life List" Button to Criteria Screen.
Improve Apple Watch Support
New Big Year Birding Logo (Black-necked Stilt) 3.41 05/10/2017 Criteria function updated to allow simple review of previous and current year counts.
Finally have the issue with poor or no internet signal fixed . . . I apologize to everyone inconvenienced by this problem. 3.30 04/24/2017 Fixes sporadic problem on iPhones where a GPS signal exists and a weak data signal, keeps user from being able to enter a bird. 3.22 04/12/2017 Minor Bug Fixes and User-Interface Change 3.21 03/29/2017 Improved Interface
Optional Push Feature . . . providing Birders with insight on what is being seen 3.20 02/20/2017 iOS 10+ Compatibility.
App now takes advantage of the additional screen real estate in the iPhone 6 and 7, 6 Plus and 7 Plus.
Improved Interface, better photos and more maps. 3.04 01/17/2017 Fixes a problem where scrolled Sighting Table or Map snaps back to default 2.26 04/08/2016 1) Sighting Criteria Search is now more conventional and understandable
2) From your Apple Watch (not required):
* You can now check your Sightings (do I have an Anna's Hummingbird?)
* Check you counts (How many birds to I have this month?)
* And even add a sighting from your wrist (Your phone is in your backpack) 2.00 01/12/2016