The Audubon Bird Guide is a free and complete field guide to over 800 species of North American birds, right in your pocket. Built for all experience levels, it will help you identify the birds around you, keep track of the birds you’ve seen, and get outside to find new birds near you.
With over 2 million downloads to date, it is one of the best and most trusted field guides for North American birds.
NOTE:
Thank you to all our users for the feedback on the new update. We’ll be incorporating many of your feature suggestions and fixes in the next few updates. We very much appreciate your help and support.
Based on your feedback, we’re currently working on the following issues:
– Restoration of user-created sighting lists. These lists were safely migrated with your account, but an issue is preventing them from being displayed. These will be restored soon in a future update, without any action required on your part.
– The ability to sort species alphabetically by last name in the field guide.
– Improved performance when searching and browsing lists of species, including the ability to quickly jump to a letter of the alphabet.
– Usability improvements, including photo and map display issues, for tablet users
– The ability to access the field guide, nearby eBird sightings, and other app features that don’t require user-submitted data without first creating an account
– Other assorted usability and stability fixes
As always, if you need help with the app, or have a suggestion for a new feature, please contact us directly at [email protected]. Thanks!
KEY FEATURES:
ALL-NEW: BIRD ID
It’s now easier than ever to identify a bird you just saw. Enter all you were able to observe—what color was it? How big? What did its tail look like?—and Bird ID will narrow down a list of possible matches for your location and date in real time.
LEARN ABOUT THE BIRDS YOU LOVE
Our field guide features over 3,000 photos, over eight hours of audio clips of songs and calls, multi-season range maps, and in-depth text by leading North American bird expert Kenn Kaufman.
KEEP TRACK OF ALL THE BIRDS YOU SEE
With our completely redesigned Sightings feature, you can keep a record of every bird you encounter, whether you’re hiking, sitting on the porch, or simply catching a glimpse of birds out the window. We’ll even keep an updated life list for you.
EXPLORE THE BIRDS AROUND YOU
See where the birds are with nearby birding hotspots and real-time sightings from eBird.
SHARE PHOTOS OF THE BIRDS YOU’VE SEEN
Post your photos to the Photo Feed so other Audubon Bird Guide users can see.
GET INVOLVED WITH AUDUBON
Keep up with the latest news from the world of birds, science, and conservation, right on the home screen. Find an Audubon location near you to go birding. Or see where your voice is needed and take action to protect birds and the places they need, right from your app.
FOR OUR EXISTING USERS:
Once you log in with your NatureShare account, your sightings and photos will migrate with you into the new app. If something doesn’t look right, don’t worry—all of your data is untouched, safe, and secure.
Note: While we work on migrating all of our users’ data to the new app, we have temporarily disabled some of the app’s community features. In the next few updates, we’ll be restoring and adding new features that make it easy and fun to share and view the photos taken by other Audubon Bird Guide users around the country. Stay tuned!
About Audubon:
The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation. Audubon’s state programs, nature centers, chapters, and partners have an unparalleled wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to inform, inspire, and unite diverse communities in conservation action. Since 1905, Audubon’s vision has been a world in which people and wildlife thrive.
I’d like to give this app 5 stars, as it’s been a great resource with the Bird ID. Thanks to it I’ve identified more species than I ever did before, and it’s given me an appreciation for how varied your own backyard can be. But lately, some glitch has kept me from adding new sightings. Clicking on the ‘Add Sighting’ button and species in my Life List revert me to the previous page. Also, the last bird I was able to add only shows up in the Life List, but not in that locations list. Pls fix soon.
TL;DR “Completely redesigned to be easier and more fun to use.” Translation = We’ve taken a useful offline database and turned it into an online social app. Long rant: When I paid for this app in 2013 it was a great offline database mashup of the Audobon Field Guide to Birds and Birding by Ear. Sometime in the last decade they changed the app to be free while emphazing sharing social data (marking where you’re seeing the birds, etc.). They broke a few search features with this change, but it was still usable—if you had an active internet connection. Now I find I have to create an account and password to access the information (that I did pay for once upon a time)? If I have an internet connection, I can just Google for the info. The only people who need this app, are those who want to be a part of an online community. I really miss the simplicity of the original. I’m not giving it a one star review, because I realize others may like the new direction.
Constantly freezing when attempting to use the bird calls. I also find this new feature where it requests location every time I start it to be a bit annoying. It would also be nice if it could simply record my location once when using the search feature, rather than having to enter the same location every time since it’s my yard 99% of the time.
This app is awesome!! Very informative, easy to use, and accessible for those with little to no experience birdwatching. Great for IDing birds or just reading up on local inhabitants. And no ads!! (Also: I saw a lot of reviews saying a recent update was buggy… I downloaded in Dec 2021 and had no issues!)