iBird Lite HD

Native iOS App for the iPad
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iBird Lite HD
  • Ratings: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
  • Last updated: October 2011
  • Version: 3.0
  • Species Count: 30
  • Database Size: 80MB
iBird Lite HD … versions of iBird cover major regions of North America and are for the budget-minded birder who does not intend to travel. These apps have all the features of iBird Plus and only vary in the number of species and locations covered. Like other iBird products they offer comprehensive identification, behavior, habitat and ecology information, hand-drawn illustrations, professional photographs, range maps, and playable calls for all North American bird species found within your region.
Notable Features of all versions:

  • Location search has two attributes: Common for the most popular species in a state and Uncommon for rare and state listed birds.
  • Attributes are grouped into basic, head and flight related area.
  • 14 new search attributes including search by patterns, length, wingspan.
  • Updated state and province bird lists using official references.
  • Shake your device to automatically play a random bird song.
  • Taxonomic and Alphabetical family sort options on Browse screen.
  • Wonderful Sampler for Birders ★★★★★ If you love birds get this app. Its interface is extremely powerful; teaches you how a birder uses deductive reasoning to identify bird species. No crashes, beautiful illustrations, includes photos and audio recordings from Cornell Library. -dinkybirdie
  • Great app for birding ★★★★★ I used this to find out if I wanted to buy the PRO version. Very stable, great content, song recordings are outstanding, lovely illustrations and photos. -naturefaith
  • Great app! ★★★★★I am an avid birder and have lots of birding books. So I checked out this lite version and all I can say is ‘wow’. The bird songs are amazing and my cats were running around the room trying to find the birds.
    Please don’t go by other reviews that complain about crashing. I’m also a tech person and I hardly ever have an app crash. Maybe their ipads or iphones are jail broken. Could be so many things.
    Try this version and see how it works for you. I love this app. It’s got everything a birder could need. -LAN1870

As a standalone iPhone app, iBird does not require an Internet connection for access to the rich media information in its database. This does mean that the application is large, so please be patient when downloading from the iTunes app store.

You can also keep up to date with fellow iBird users by following @iBirdExplorer on Twitter and by joining the iBird fan page on Facebook.

If you use iBird in the field, please do so responsibly. We recommend the American Birding Association's Code of Ethics (http://www.aba.org/about/ethics.html), particularly section 1(b), for guidance.