iBird Explorer North

Universal iOS App for the iPhone and iPod Touch
List Price: $9.99
  • Ratings: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
  • Last updated: December 2011
  • Version: 5.1
  • Species Count: 537
  • Database Size: 386MB
For the budget-minded birder who does not intend to travel, this app covers the Atlantic Coast, Colorado, Maine, Massachusettes, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. 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 ★★★★★ Extremely useful and informative. Love that I can now store my notes etc in the cloud. -NE_Code
  • Very good basic ★★★★★ I like this app. It localizes the birds for our area. I really like the search feature, the vocalizations, and that you can contribute pictures. Excellent. -Seventhcove
  • IBird North Rocks! ★★★★★ This is a great app! Complete, convenient and accurate. At $9.99 the cheapest birding ‘book’ I’ve ever bought. Worth twice the price-easily! -Leo Jedi
  • Excellent ★★★★★ I use it in the field all the time. -Lark48
  • I love this app! ★★★★★ I’ve been using iBird for a couple of years now and I love it. It has helped me learn bird songs and ID birds I’ve seen all over the Northeast. -BirdLearner
  • Beautiful ★★★★★ Slideshow alone is worth the money. Beautiful collection of photos, high quality birdsongs. Very, very satisfied customer. -Zeussy
  • Great app ★★★★★ What a great app-lots of useful information right at your fingertips, easy to use. Money very well spent!-Bob Bost
  • If you watch birds… ★★★★★ This app is a requirement. It is also flawless! -Pat the Brat
  • Love it! ★★★★★ I love this! Last summer I played the loon call on Sunset Lake in NH, and the loons came right up to the boat! -Banana Breath
  • Wonderful!!! ★★★★★ September 6, 2011 By Love this app. Use it all the time. The photos are so helpful. -Jillainem
  • New to Birding ★★★★★ This app has really enlightened me as to the many species of birds that are appearing at my feeders. I used to think a sparrow was a sparrow was a sparrow…Wow! Who knew? It’s been great fun using this app to figure out who is visiting. I would highly recommend it. -Da Bear 58
  • Excellent ★★★★★ A must for any birding enthusiast. -Blue_Tick
  • Great App ★★★★★ Easy and fun to use! -VT Glenn

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.