List Price: $9.99
For the budget-minded birder who does not intend to travel, this app covers Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. These apps have all the features of iBird Plus Guide to Birds 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.
- IBird ★★★★★ Excellent program for identifying birds! The recordings of bird songs are fantastic. -Noaksmm
- Awesome App, Great for Kids Too! ★★★★★ I bought this app for our homeschool nature walks, instead of buying a book to carry around. My kids love using this app, listening to the bird songs and recording their sightings. It’s super convenient and easy to use. I love that it’s specialized to our region. Highly recommended! -Dick Mailly
- Great App ★★★★★ Lots of good information and very easy to use. It was recommended to me by a professional birder. -Firstin1960
- Great App! ★★★★★ Love this! -Noelle41
- Essential birding app ★★★★★ Couldn’t be better. Wonderful. -Jack Freeman
- iBird Explorer Midwest ★★★★★ The absolute best app for birders of all levels. Very well laid out and easy to use…and so much more informative that any book can present. I don’t always leave the house with my hard copy field guide in hand-but I’m never out of doors without my iBird app. -Taking Five
- A MUST HAVE! ★★★★★ If you enjoy the outdoors and love birds, this is a must have app. I love using the audio part of this app while hiking to bring birds closer to me. It is also extremely helpful for bird identification for bird feeders. -SAWVenice
- Excellence ★★★★★ A great resource in my pocket, I’ve used this app to make positive IDs many times. While nothing can really replace a good paperback field guide, this is an excellent supplement to the well worn guides we know and love. -Phil Good-Elliott
- Great and thorough app ★★★★★ I love the search-ability of this app and also the audio and visual cues for identification. -phaze_007
- Great app in the field or at home ★★★★★ I’m a novice birder and this app has been invaluable as a guide. It has an overwhelming amount of information-I know so much more about the birds in my area as a result of using the app frequently. I use the “favorites” feature to keep my local list. Bravo to the team that developed this terrific app. -driftless1
- Explorer Midwest 5 ★★★★★ I have downloaded over 200 apps and consider this app one of the best I have ever used. If you are a bird watcher you cannot go wrong purchasing this app. The search engine and photos are superb. -Jhe001
- iBird Midwest ★★★★★ What a ton of information! Love it. -Mxmxmxmx?..?
- IBird Midwest ★★★★★ Great photos, information and bird calls. -Shiocbarb
- Bird Midwest ★★★★★ This app is great for those of us who live out in the country. I especially like to hear the songs for each of the referenced species. This app is well worth it’s purchase price; a great value. -Froggo5
- Great photos, true to life bird calls, lots of info and options. worth every penny! ★★★★★ Buy it…..you won’t be disappointed. -icatmom
- Very Handy ★★★★★ I use mine often. It’s very easy to quickly find your way around the app. -MSK440