Bird Buddy: Tap into nature

Bird Buddy

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About this app

Bird Buddy is the world’s most recognized app for photographing and learning about birds - whether they’re in your own backyard or around the world.You can pair your own Bird Buddy Smart Bird Feeder to capture stunning up-close photos and videos of your neighborhood birds, or download the app for free to see real-time content shared from our community of 150k feeders across 120 countries.Equipped with artificial intelligence, Bird Buddy recognizes species and keeps you learning with in-app educational content. Tap into BB Explore to connect with our dedicated feeders in exotic locations, or BB TV to see an endless stream of birds from our community.With Bird Buddy, nature and conservation come first. Every bird captured contributes extremely important information to the database of bird migrations and populations that will help experts better understand and protect them.KEY FEATURES

- Discover birds around the world
- Pair with your own smart bird feeder
- Get real-time notifications of bird visits
- Identify birds using AI recognition
- Unlock different bird species
- Create photo collections
- Learn about birds (food, traits, size, etc.)
- Share access to your smart bird feeder with family & friends
- Help contribute important information about bird migrations and population

Tap into our bird feeder and collect photos of birds you have never even dreamt of. The built-in camera automatically takes pictures of birds that stop by! Equipped with artificial intelligence, it recognizes a wide variety of bird species!

With Bird Buddy, you’re not only helping birds by feeding them. You’re also contributing extremely important information to the database of bird migrations and populations that will help experts better understand and protect them.

KEY FEATURES
• Pair with a smart bird feeder
• Get postcards of bird visits
• Identify birds using AI recognition
• Unlock different bird species
• Create photo collections
• Learn about birds (food, traits, size, etc.)
• Share access to your smart bird feeder with family & friends
• Help contribute important information about bird migrations and population

Ratings and reviews

I'm unhappy with the latest version. I liked flipping thru photos from around the world. Now you can only watch videos. That's too time consuming. Responding to developer's reply: neither of those options are great. Why would I want to see more photos of the same birds that I already see? As for connecting to another BB, I did that once and saw one postcard of one bird. No, I prefered taking a minute and flipping thru a couple dozen postcards from around the world. That was awesome

I love my Bird Buddy and think it's honestly wonderful. My criticisms are of the app alone. The app updates but my suggestions remain: I wish there was a way to multi select and bulk delete postcards within collections. Right now it's very tedious. Also, when a photo is identified incorrectly, I can't move it because it's the cover postcard for (the wrong) species. I should be allowed to delete it and have the species removed especially if it's the only image for it and it's wrong.

I've enjoyed this app a lot, especially at the beginning. I've since discovered it won't pick up the tiny birds anymore. It's solely doves now. Goldfinch (2x), tufted titmouse (1x), house finch (several times), none of those register on the feeder anymore. Maybe the cameras need a wider angle, like house cameras. So while I enjoy the feeder, I have to be physically watching it to catch the littles.

What's new

- Introducing the new “Live” feature: Tune into a live video feed from your Bird Buddy, and become the photographer by taking your own snapshots.
- We did some spring cleaning by retiring the Community tab, moving BB Explore to the now better organized Settings tab, and decluttering the navigation bar to make space for further improvements and upcoming features.
- You can now turn on the newly added Smart Notifications option and only receive the notifications that are relevant to you.