iBird Explorer PRO

Universal iOS App for the iPhone and iPod Touch
List Price: $29.99
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iBird Explorer PRO
  • Ratings: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
  • Last updated: December 2011
  • Version: 5.1
  • Species Count: 924
  • Database Size: 500MB
iBird Explorer PRO is designed to satisfy the demanding needs of advanced birders and professional naturalists. It offers comprehensive identification, behavior, habitat and ecology information, twice as many search attributes as Plus, hand-drawn illustrations, professional photographs, range maps, and playable calls for 924 North American and Hawaiian bird species.
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.
  • I bird explorer pro ★★★★★ Excellent application. The combination of drawings and good photo images alone make this worth having. -TheBirdly
  • Love it ★★★★★ I’ve been super happy with this app…And the upgrades continue to be great! Worth every penny! -vatechman11
  • Recommend ★★★★★ I’m majoring in wildlife biology and am in an Ornithology class. I love this app. For tests I have to know birds by sight and call and this is very helpful. I also have to do field work and identify a number of things I haven’t ever seen before. This is perfect for that because you can: Search by: Head color, Chest color, Foot color, Beak shape, Silhouette, Wing shape, Current location And MANY other categories, and it will bring up possible birds that it could be. Perfect for learning more about birds you already know and for figuring what a bird is that you just saw for the first time. -Wwwrrraaaa
  • THE BEST BIRD APP ON THE PLANET!! ★★★★★ I have had this app for a while and just got the 4s. Even more beautiful. IBird just blows the competition out of the water by a mile and then some. I HAVE the other bird apps too. Not even close to IBird. In fact, I upgraded to 64g from a 16g iPhone 4 JUST to allow more bird apps! This app is just beyond awesome, as are ALL of the IBird apps. So easy to use and soooo many features. No, I do not work for IBird in anyway. I just love this app. It is my favorite app of all time out of 300 plus apps I own. I just got IBird UK even though I may never go there. As always, worth every penny. -PuffyClementine
  • Excellent app ★★★★★ I’ve had this app for well over six months and it is fantastic, well worth the money. It’s handy to have access to everything I might use to identify a bird in the field, like photo AND illustrations, search filters, audio clips, and more. Over the months, the updates just make this app even better. Although I haven’t used it yet, I really like the addition of the option to upload my own photos. -Khscott
  • The Best Wildlife App Yet ★★★★★ Fun, delightful software for anyone who loves birds and birding. Works great, and just when you thought it couldn’t get better, they add another fun feature. We’ve figured out several species that strayed out of they’re normal migration path because we had the app in hand. I love figuring out the species while they’re in front of you, or right when you hear them (on the iPod Touch). At home we look up the birds we caught in our photos on the iPad-where the pictures are beautiful and large. I plan to use the multiple favorites lists to track birds in the various places we visit over and over again. My one wish is to have an app like this for plants, flowers, insects (dragonflies), mammals, reptiles, and geology. -longtalker
  • I Bird PRO ★★★★★ Without a doubt the BEST app available for bird loves. With the features available, you get all the information you ever need pertaining to any bird in North America. -WRWertz
  • Best birding app to date ★★★★★ Must have if you consider yourself a birder, or would want a great reference for birds. Would like the ability to pinch and zoom on the photos as you can with the portrait. Hoping this is in one of the frequent updates. Thanks guys! …Latest update adds landscape and zoom for photos. Way to go guys. Great update! -Joe_58
  • Must have ★★★★ This is a must have for birders and photographers of birds. I love the feature that let’s me add my own photos. The app will play a randomized slide show with the pics of any photographer, including sounds. This app has made me a better birder. -Lmurrayphd
  • Bird in hand ★★★★★ Literally this app puts all the information right in your hand with your iPhone and iPad. Wonderful to be able to stand in the field and quickly search iBird and identify the bird I’m watching. Thanks! -Ladyhorse
  • Artist/Photographer ★★★★★ This is an excellent app! Very comprehensive guide with beautiful artwork and photography and loaded with plenty of information and features. I film, photograph and record bird songs so I find this app to be really useful that helps quickly identify birds of North America. -Shinrin Art
  • Amazing ★★★★★ Thanks iBird for making my life complete with such an easy to use program. -ravenstarfire

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.