10.06
2017-12-24
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Besides compatibility with the iPhone X, this new version of iBird UK has Time of Day, Birds Around Me (BAM) and Percevia smart search features.
Time of Day Search
The new Time of Day search feature lets you filter birds by activity intervals during day or night (Cathemeral), dawn and dusk (Crepuscular), during the day (Diurnal) or during the night (Nocturnal). Time of Day Notes which provide additional information about a species behavior are found on each species from a new Time of Day menu. The Time of Day feature is particularly useful for birders who are interested in night birding.
Abundance
Now you can search on the Abundance attribute which includes: Accidental, Casual, Common, Rare and Uncommon status.
10.04
2017-07-30
Fixed a crash being experienced by some users.
Birds Around Me (BAM) and Percevia Smart Search now available as in app purchases.
10.02
2017-05-03
Database is up to 50% smaller.
All new sound library.
Landscape mode now works for iPad.
Photo Center Facebook photo sharing works.
Free stickers for birders.
Completely updated for new British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) standards.
74 new species drawings found with Search->Illustration Update->10.0 and 10.1.
New Abundance search attribute.
Free 7-day trial for new in-app purchases for Birds Around Me (BAM) and Percevia smart search. See Navigation->Purchases screen.
View by Head via Set View/Sort Mode button.
Gallery mode now includes Common Names of species.
Compare iBird versions: bit.ly/about-ibird
6.1
2013-03-31
▶ MWG’s GREATEST UPDATE EVER! This 2013 version 6.1update has been optimized for the iPhone 5's taller screen, and we have added hundreds of new photos.
▶ FULL SCREEN & LANDSCAPE VIEW FOR ILLUSTRATIONS – you can rotate the iPhone or iPad from portrait to landscape mode to see wider illustrations with no bars on the side and full zoom and pinch.
▶ UPDATED PHOTOS - Added over 400 new photos and dozens of replacement photos.
▶ IMPROVED LABELS - The species Latin name, order, family and band code are now overlaid on the bottom part of the illustration in a semitransparent band.
▶ iCloud has been made more robust and an extensive Glossary has been added to the species page slider for easy access.
6.0
2012-07-14
▶ SAVE & LOAD SEARCH - Now you can save your selected search values and quickly load them later.
▶ RETINA ICONS - Retina Icons. We have updated all our icons to be compatible with the retina display, meaning they no longer have any jaggies. In the process we updated a lot of the icons in the tab bar and on the More page. Thanks to the customers who hammered us on this detail we kept putting off.
▶ COLOR PROMINENT - This is a new attribute we are really proud of because of how effective it is for matching birds. The Color Prominent attribute is the answer to the question, "What color of the bird is most conspicuous?" It’s the color that stands out the most and is the most striking. Secondarily it may be the color that makes up the largest percentage of the bird's coloring. Try this attribute when you see a bird and let us know how much it helps you.
▶ HEAD PATTERN - Big, giant and huge update to the Head Pattern attribute. We have stressed in the Search tutorials how important the head of bird is to identifying it and none are more important than Head Pattern. We went back and fine tuned this attribute adding a new value called Eyebrow. We also made sure the Overviews reflected the values assigned to this attribute.
5.1
2011-12-22
■ CLOUD - Share Notes, Favorites, and Favorite Lists in the Apple "cloud" and never worry about backing up. Syncs favorites and notes to all devices automatically.
■ NEW LANDSCAPE MODE PHOTOS - Rotate your phone or iPad and the landscape photo fills the entire screen. New photo viewer works like the Apple Gallery, swipe to move between photos, as well as zoom and pinch.
■ GORGEOUS PAIRED ILLUSTRATIONS - We are beginning to combine male, female and the flight drawings into one gorgeous illustration. Take a look at the Black-headed Grosbeak, Painted Bunting and Blue Bunting for a sample.
■ PHOTO CENTER - The Photo Center is a gallery for storing, editing and assigning your photos to specific species pages and it lets you share them on Facebook, Twitter, or email them to friends.
■ HUB - The Hub is a centralized web site that pops up to provide you with the latest news, tips and tricks, and recent events in birding.
■ IBIRD BLOG - Mitch Waite, publisher of iBird, writes the stories in the iBird Blog, covering topics relevant to nature and apps: ibirdblog.wordpress.com
5.0
2011-10-24
■ Used by Jack Black to learn birding for The Big Year (a)
■ New Photo Center - add your own photos to species pages, share on FaceBook or Twitter, email to friends.
■ Added "My Photos" to the Slideshow Photographer setting so you can do a slideshow of YOUR photos only.
■ New Species page slider reorganized for better usability.
■ New View button on Search results page so you can change display to compact, icon, thumbnail or gallery.
■ New Multiple languages in all versions (French and Spanish)
■ New How to Use iBird and How to Use Photo Center popups when iBird first starts. Added them to More->Documentation so you cab see them again.
■ New Movie: How to Use Photo Center on YouTube
■ New photos and illustrations
■ Hub gives latest birding news
■ New iBird Blog
■ New Help
■ Still works on 2nd generation Touch and iOS 3.2
■ Added Slideshow to Search Page so after a search you can study photos of those matched birds
■ Reorganized More page
■ Mute does not disable bird sounds
■ Numerous bug fixes - memory leak, Last display, no internet in Registration page.
(a) "Black can go on better. In this techno age, he signed his contract for the film and then immediately downloaded iBird onto his iPhone." from Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson look to the trees , Chicago Sun-Times, Cindy Pearlman, Oct 6 2011
4.0
2011-06-10
■ IBIRD UK IS NOW A FULLY UNIVERSAL APP
IBIRD UK--the world's best-selling line of birding apps--just got WAY better! This latest version of iBird is a major update, taking it far beyond all current birding apps. I'd like to tell you about just a few of the things we did to improve iBird. Many of the changes came from listening to our customers and we hope you continue to let us know what you like about the product.
■ UNIVERSAL APP. Most importantly iBird is now an official "universal" app meaning it works beautifully on the iPad tablet, filling the entire screen.
■ CONTENT. Illustrations, photos and range maps are now true HD 720p resolution.
■ MULTIPLE BROWSE VIEWS. You can now view species in one of four browse views: Compact, Icon, Thumbnail and Gallery.
■ SPECTROGRAM. To make the audio song and call feature of iBird SHINE we developed a special player control to bring a deeper insight to the inner structure of bird songs.
■ PHOTO SLIDESHOW. We added a photo slideshow to iBird which displays all photos randomly while playing their song or call in the background. You can pick from family or photographer. (Find this feature on the More page.)
■ CUSTOMIZED HELP. Our Help files have been revamped to reveal more about iBird and they automatically adjust to iPad or iPhone screens.
■ MISCELLANEOUS. The Band code (North America) or BTO5 code (Europe) is displayed on every species page. We also took this opportunity to fix a variety of bugs, including one in Favorites. You can read about all of them on the About page of the app and in the What’s New section of the product page.