iBird Photo Sleuth Hack 1.12 + Redeem Codes
Identify birds from a photo
Developer: Mitch Waite Group
Category: Reference
Price: $9.99 (Download for free)
Version: 1.12
ID: MitchWaite.iBird-Photo-Sleuth
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Description
This new update to iBird Photo Sleuth now includes access to our ornithology experts who will help identify your bird if you want more help. The “Help Me Identify a Bird” forum has been around for 10 years and has over 100,000 members.
Every now and then an app breaks out from the pack with features that are simply astonishing. iBird Photo Sleuth fits that mold; use its machine learning "brain" to identify a photograph of any bird of North America, regardless of the photo’s quality. Photo Sleuth uses Apple’s new CoreML machine learning system to figure out the species in even the most distorted, fuzzy and poor contrast photograph. The Photo Sleuth app has been “trained” by over 2 million photos of bird species to ID birds with uncanny accuracy.
You can use iBird Photo Sleuth in the field -- no internet connection is required, because its CoreML database is contained in the app. Take a photo with your camera or select it from the built-in iPhone Photos gallery (Dropbox, Google Photos and OneDrive coming). Don’t worry if the bird is a tiny blob in the frame; Photo Sleuth is smart enough to find the features that distinguish it from all other 900+ bird species of North America.
After you submit your photo to the Sleuth, it will give you a list of its top 3 guesses as thumbnail sized images. Each will display a “Confidence” value between 0% and 100%. When the Sleuth is really sure of its analysis, it will produce a high value; when unsure it will display a low value. If the app thinks that you have submitted a photo of something other than a bird, it will display “Not a Bird.” Of course, some people’s faces look like birds, so it may still suggest a bird species. For example, my selfie came up with “Not a Bird” for the #1 spot and the Barn Owl for #2.
To help confirm the 3 guesses made by Photo Sleuth, you can tap on any of the thumbnail images to open more species details, including an enlarged illustration, text that explains important field marks and a range map that shows the migration coverage of the bird. The range map includes a range and habitat paragraph that helps confirm that the species is indeed located in your GPS area. A future update will add our “Birds Around Me” technology to further narrow the choices that Photo Sleuth guesses. On this same screen you may open a rich content species account in our iBird app (should you have it on your phone) to review much more information, including playing the bird’s songs and calls, seeing similar birds, behavior details and much more.
Sharing of your results can be done two ways: you can share your photo and the Photo Sleuth guesses with your friends via Apple Messages, Email, Facebook, Twitter and all other functions such as printing, which appear on the standard Apple activity menu.
There is also a button for optionally sharing your photo and the results of the Photo Sleuth guess with Mitch Waite Group, so that we can improve our neural network. Both correct and incorrect guesses help us improve the performance of artificial intelligence. Or course, we only use the photograph for training, and the copyright remains with you.
Every now and then an app breaks out from the pack with features that are simply astonishing. iBird Photo Sleuth fits that mold; use its machine learning "brain" to identify a photograph of any bird of North America, regardless of the photo’s quality. Photo Sleuth uses Apple’s new CoreML machine learning system to figure out the species in even the most distorted, fuzzy and poor contrast photograph. The Photo Sleuth app has been “trained” by over 2 million photos of bird species to ID birds with uncanny accuracy.
You can use iBird Photo Sleuth in the field -- no internet connection is required, because its CoreML database is contained in the app. Take a photo with your camera or select it from the built-in iPhone Photos gallery (Dropbox, Google Photos and OneDrive coming). Don’t worry if the bird is a tiny blob in the frame; Photo Sleuth is smart enough to find the features that distinguish it from all other 900+ bird species of North America.
After you submit your photo to the Sleuth, it will give you a list of its top 3 guesses as thumbnail sized images. Each will display a “Confidence” value between 0% and 100%. When the Sleuth is really sure of its analysis, it will produce a high value; when unsure it will display a low value. If the app thinks that you have submitted a photo of something other than a bird, it will display “Not a Bird.” Of course, some people’s faces look like birds, so it may still suggest a bird species. For example, my selfie came up with “Not a Bird” for the #1 spot and the Barn Owl for #2.
To help confirm the 3 guesses made by Photo Sleuth, you can tap on any of the thumbnail images to open more species details, including an enlarged illustration, text that explains important field marks and a range map that shows the migration coverage of the bird. The range map includes a range and habitat paragraph that helps confirm that the species is indeed located in your GPS area. A future update will add our “Birds Around Me” technology to further narrow the choices that Photo Sleuth guesses. On this same screen you may open a rich content species account in our iBird app (should you have it on your phone) to review much more information, including playing the bird’s songs and calls, seeing similar birds, behavior details and much more.
Sharing of your results can be done two ways: you can share your photo and the Photo Sleuth guesses with your friends via Apple Messages, Email, Facebook, Twitter and all other functions such as printing, which appear on the standard Apple activity menu.
There is also a button for optionally sharing your photo and the results of the Photo Sleuth guess with Mitch Waite Group, so that we can improve our neural network. Both correct and incorrect guesses help us improve the performance of artificial intelligence. Or course, we only use the photograph for training, and the copyright remains with you.
Version history
1.12
2023-09-29
* bug fixes
1.11
2023-08-18
- Added iPad and Catalyst back
- Enabled Landscape for iPad
- Enabled Landscape for iPad
1.10
2023-06-08
- Bug fixes
1.7
2023-04-16
Minor bug fixes
1.6
2020-05-25
- Miscellaneous fixes and optimizations, all iBird family of apps can open Photo Sleuth.
1.2
2018-08-05
Version 1.2 includes a number of new features including:
● Free Expert Help: a forum service "Help Me Identify a Bird." Ornithologist experts will analyze your photo and tell you what species of bird it is. You can send your photo from right inside Photo Sleuth. Use it to confirm Sleuth's guess or to dispute it.
● Registration so you can sign up for our newsletter and updates to iBird Photo Sleuth.
● Compliance with GDPR Privacy regulations.
● Various bug fixes.
● Be sure and check out our new bundle The Delighted Birder; which includes this app plus iBird Pro and iBird Hawaii-Palau.
● Free Expert Help: a forum service "Help Me Identify a Bird." Ornithologist experts will analyze your photo and tell you what species of bird it is. You can send your photo from right inside Photo Sleuth. Use it to confirm Sleuth's guess or to dispute it.
● Registration so you can sign up for our newsletter and updates to iBird Photo Sleuth.
● Compliance with GDPR Privacy regulations.
● Various bug fixes.
● Be sure and check out our new bundle The Delighted Birder; which includes this app plus iBird Pro and iBird Hawaii-Palau.
1.1
2018-05-22
Changed rating popup parameters.
Added Analytics for debugging details.
Added Analytics for debugging details.
1.0
2018-05-09
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Ratings
4.7 out of 5
553 Ratings
Reviews
Ornithusiast,
Dead on...most of the time
I am absolutely amazed at how accurately this identified birds from my photos. Even got one I misidentified way back and recently was told otherwise (which was an Olive-sided Flycatcher). It missed two. It missed an Empid Flycatcher but amazingly enough I had two photos of the same bird and it got it on the second try which was a much better side shot. Well, can’t complain because we all know how difficult those Empids are to identify! It also missed a photo of a dark morph Rough-legged Hawk. Thought it was a Red-tailed. Again, not complaining. A lot of people think a dark morph Roughy might be a Red-tailed and I can’t imagine how hard it is for software to figure this out. I tried all sorts of birds. In trees, in water, in flight on the ground. It got them right. I love it. I am definitely going to tell my birding friends.
Now I got to try it with some lousy bird photos. But, I don’t take lousy bird photos...most of the time! At least I don’t keep lousy bird photos. Got to take some!
A great app and well worth the money. My hats off to the excellent job.
Now I got to try it with some lousy bird photos. But, I don’t take lousy bird photos...most of the time! At least I don’t keep lousy bird photos. Got to take some!
A great app and well worth the money. My hats off to the excellent job.
BillW314,
An Excellent App for Wildlife Photographers
One of my hobbies is wildlife photography, particularly bird photography. So I generally have a photo of the birds I want to identify (sometimes a good one, sometimes a marginal one). I am not an experienced birder and I have found this app very useful in making bird IDs where the bird is not one that everyone knows. For example, earlier this year I photographed some birds in a marshy area of the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. The birds looked like largish sparrows to me, but I was not able to match them up with sparrows in my bird apps and guides. I ran a picture through iBird Photo Sleuth and found out the bird was a female red-winged blackbird. Perhaps I should have guessed this, as there were easily recognizable male red-winged blackbirds around, but I did not. I confirmed this looking in my apps and guides, including iBird, but most apps index birds by the more colorful male, so I might not have found it without the photo ID. The app has helped me identify a number of other birds, including various warblers, sparrows, and small falcons called merlins. I also use the app to confirm IDs where I am not entirely sure.
I also like the fact that the app gives percentage estimates when it comes up with multiple possibilitirs. The integration with my iBird app is also quite helpful.
I look forward to the continued development of the app and its possible expansion to areas outside North America.
I also like the fact that the app gives percentage estimates when it comes up with multiple possibilitirs. The integration with my iBird app is also quite helpful.
I look forward to the continued development of the app and its possible expansion to areas outside North America.
HornedPuffin,
Amazing
I was skeptical of this app since I’d already purchased a similar app that claimed to ID birds by song. It was a total failure. But this app is good.
If iBird Photo Sleuth represents the future of bird identification my days as a birding expert may be numbered. I submitted a collection of difficult to identify photographs I’ve taken and was surprised at how well it worked. Out of 10 hard to identify photos it got 8 correct. I was actually relieved when it got confused telling a Chipping-Sparrow from a House Sparrow, so there’s still hope for my skills.
But the app was able to identify some very poor quality photographs that stumped my buddies. A Golden-crowned Kinglet was just a fuzzy blob on a branch; it must have keyed an orange-yellow crown you can barely make out to identify it correctly. I think the price is fair, especially given the app provides range maps and good quality illustrations. As an iBird Pro owner I like that it will open that app from its own ID page.
However I’d actually prefer if this was an in-app purchase for iBird instead of YAA (yet another app), as my iPhone is just too cluttered with birding apps.
They ask your permission to train the AI using your photos. Given how bad the quality of the ones I submitted are, I wish them luck.
Overall I’ll give this app 5 stars, mainly for the accuracy and the simplicity of the interface.
If iBird Photo Sleuth represents the future of bird identification my days as a birding expert may be numbered. I submitted a collection of difficult to identify photographs I’ve taken and was surprised at how well it worked. Out of 10 hard to identify photos it got 8 correct. I was actually relieved when it got confused telling a Chipping-Sparrow from a House Sparrow, so there’s still hope for my skills.
But the app was able to identify some very poor quality photographs that stumped my buddies. A Golden-crowned Kinglet was just a fuzzy blob on a branch; it must have keyed an orange-yellow crown you can barely make out to identify it correctly. I think the price is fair, especially given the app provides range maps and good quality illustrations. As an iBird Pro owner I like that it will open that app from its own ID page.
However I’d actually prefer if this was an in-app purchase for iBird instead of YAA (yet another app), as my iPhone is just too cluttered with birding apps.
They ask your permission to train the AI using your photos. Given how bad the quality of the ones I submitted are, I wish them luck.
Overall I’ll give this app 5 stars, mainly for the accuracy and the simplicity of the interface.
tagging along,
Impressive
Recently returned from East TX where my spouse focused on birding and I tried to become a better bird photographer. I have over 200 pix that others say are pretty darn good, but do I recall the birds’ name? Along comes this app and it identifies every bird from its photo including a yellow-crowned night heron you can barely see through a thicket and a common pauraque that to me is almost impossible to see through branches and twigs on the ground. For this specific task of identification through existing photos I hope a future version will make returning to the respective album less cumbersome.
The App Store is riddled with app reviews describing a complete lack of customer service. Not so with Mitch Waite. I found this group to be responsive and generous in their willingness to help. Once again, those involved in birding prove themselves to be helpful and honest.
The App Store is riddled with app reviews describing a complete lack of customer service. Not so with Mitch Waite. I found this group to be responsive and generous in their willingness to help. Once again, those involved in birding prove themselves to be helpful and honest.
amurderofcrows,
Good for a beginner
I’m a beginning birder but I’d like to get better at it and this app seemed like a good way to start.
This app uses new tech from Apple called CoreML (ML=Machine Learning) to analyze a photograph of a bird and guess what species it is. The app displays 3 small images with names and a percentage representing how likely each represents what’s in the photo.
I used my iPhone 8 Plus camera to snap some shots of seagulls, pigeons and a few crows. The photos were pretty bad but the app was still able to identify them.
I googled several bird names, saved them to my photo gallery and used the app to open and identify. It got everyone right. I tried a Monarch butterfly photo and it’s first choice was a Ruby-throated Hummingbird at 63%. Second choice was Not a Bird at 19%. I think the developers need to work on the part of the app that decides what’s a bird, but I had fun using it and think it will be a great way to learn how to identify birds.
Few things I’d like to see; a way to look up a bird without needing a photo so I can use it as a field guide, some kind of sighting system like eBird and a way to upload my observations to eBird, more photos of the bird I identified (don’t have their iBird reference app).
This app uses new tech from Apple called CoreML (ML=Machine Learning) to analyze a photograph of a bird and guess what species it is. The app displays 3 small images with names and a percentage representing how likely each represents what’s in the photo.
I used my iPhone 8 Plus camera to snap some shots of seagulls, pigeons and a few crows. The photos were pretty bad but the app was still able to identify them.
I googled several bird names, saved them to my photo gallery and used the app to open and identify. It got everyone right. I tried a Monarch butterfly photo and it’s first choice was a Ruby-throated Hummingbird at 63%. Second choice was Not a Bird at 19%. I think the developers need to work on the part of the app that decides what’s a bird, but I had fun using it and think it will be a great way to learn how to identify birds.
Few things I’d like to see; a way to look up a bird without needing a photo so I can use it as a field guide, some kind of sighting system like eBird and a way to upload my observations to eBird, more photos of the bird I identified (don’t have their iBird reference app).
Calaveras Images,
Excellent and accurate IDs!
I am one of those guys that has bird identification books stuffed in pockets in the car, next to the computer, on the end table and in my camera bag. You know what? I still get stumped on bird IDs.
I loaded this app up on my iPhone and started importing pictures of birds I have photographed. Everyone of them was identified correctly!
Now I have fuzzy issues when it comes to Sandpipers and some other waders. I ran some of my pictures through this app and it identified Dunlins, Short and Long billed Dowitchers, various Plovers, Least Sandpipers, Yellowlegs and on and on. I had a Orange Crown Warbler in my backyard this winter and it correctly identified him too.
Easy to use. I see it links to iBird but not sure if there are reporting links and hotspots built into to app. I would appreciate those features!
This app is free! I have paid a lot of money for my collection of bird books. But for now on, this is probably all I need. If the app gets any better I would gladly pay for it.
I loaded this app up on my iPhone and started importing pictures of birds I have photographed. Everyone of them was identified correctly!
Now I have fuzzy issues when it comes to Sandpipers and some other waders. I ran some of my pictures through this app and it identified Dunlins, Short and Long billed Dowitchers, various Plovers, Least Sandpipers, Yellowlegs and on and on. I had a Orange Crown Warbler in my backyard this winter and it correctly identified him too.
Easy to use. I see it links to iBird but not sure if there are reporting links and hotspots built into to app. I would appreciate those features!
This app is free! I have paid a lot of money for my collection of bird books. But for now on, this is probably all I need. If the app gets any better I would gladly pay for it.
JK cook,
Pretty Cool
I tried this out today and it works pretty well. I didn’t have too many pictures of American birds, but the ones I tried worked. Seems like it would be a very helpful app. I don’t know how well it would work with photos snapped on the iPhone in the field, because generally the birds are really small so by the time you blew them up to fill up the square in the app, they might be too grainy. It’d be neat if it really worked. Hopefully they will expand their database to include the rest of the world’s birds. Of course, that might fill up the entire memory of the phone.
thawme,
Exceptional, iBird Sleuth!
I downloaded this app because I could not believe it could do what it does. My wife and I tested it out most of the morning when we first got it. Right it was most of the time or close enough that we got to the correct bird very quickly. What was/is unbelievable is that no matter the fuzziness and smallness of the birds in our photos, this app can guess either right on or so close that it is easy get get the identity os said bird. And, of course, the more submissions it has the smarter it gets! Thanks for a great bird guide!!!
Ned Kuehn,
Simply Amazing
Brilliant app. I do a lot of field bird photography and occasionally get stumped while editing and labeling the photos in Lightroom (especially hummingbirds, fall shorebirds and warblers, young gulls). Even though I have been a life-long avid bird watcher, we cannot be 100% all the time. For the ones stumping me, I take a photo within the app off of my 4K monitor. I have not tried it out yet on fledglings. So far has been flawless in identification.
georgebs54,
Wow! Yup, that good
I have been photographing outdoor life for quite a while. I only recently found this app. I had a number of led birds in my photos that I could not identify, even with Bird Guides.
I used the app and,in seconds, answers came back that further research proved to be correct. It is amazing. Gives you 3 birds with likely percentages of being the proper ID. Mine were all in the number 1 selection. Thanks for this app iBird.
I used the app and,in seconds, answers came back that further research proved to be correct. It is amazing. Gives you 3 birds with likely percentages of being the proper ID. Mine were all in the number 1 selection. Thanks for this app iBird.
