We are pleased to announce that the eBird-based BirdsEye app is now available for Android. BirdsEye is designed to make eBird data more accessible from smartphones.

We find that it is especially useful for planning birding trips. It can show a list of birds from eBird for any location on earth, and display maps of recent eBird sightings for any species.

BirdsEye syncs with your eBird life or year lists so it can display a list of target birds. It also provides bar charts of seasonal abundance for each location. BirdsEye for Android is available as a free download with optional in-app purchases. The free version provides access to the 50 most common birds for any location on earth, which makes it a great tool for beginning eBirders who want to focus on the birds that they are most likely to see, either at home or on a trip overseas. More advanced birders may choose to unlock larger lists of birds or packages of bird sounds through in-app purchases.

A free version of BirdsEye for iOS will be available before Christmas. Download the free version and give it a test drive: iOS App Store or Google Play Store.

What is BirdsEye?
"BirdsEye is the best invention for birding since binoculars," says Kenn Kaufman, renowned birder, author of the Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America and team member of a partnership that has created BirdsEye, a new birding app for the iPhone® and iPod touch®. "It's like having thousands of local birding experts in your pocket," Kaufman says. The application was developed by Birds in the Hand, LLC, of Virginia, and brings together content from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and Kaufman. BirdsEye is now available on the App Store