Costa Rica Birds App Reviews

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Easy to use.. This app is great, much easier than carrying a book and shuffling through the pages. There is a filter function that allows you to search for birds by characteristics like colors and size. Finding the birds like that is really easy without knowing their names. I also like the ability to mark them as seen and heard. Then you can go and filter by marked as seen and you get a list with the species that you have observed. Great work.

.. I used this guide in Southern Mexico, not being able to find a local guide book. I used it a lot, and found it at times frustrating. Why no Spanish names for birds? No search for bird names first or last. Visiting in May I would have appreciated if the filter function could have excluded the migrating birds.

Great app for all levels of birders. A lot of people at Arenal Observatory Lodge in La Fortuna were using this app. Loved the fact they have photos, vocalizations and ranges attached to the bird description. Being able to email a photo of the bird to the developers is very handy for hard-to-identify species. Nice touch.

Needs work. Released too early. Lots of omissions. Same group that made Panama guide. Wait awhile before you buy.

Back button for Similar Species. It's a good app with a good number of photos and songs. When I click similar species it doesn't give me a back button to go back to where I was. You have to reset and go back to the bird which I find kind of annoying.

Finally! A great app for Costa Rica birds. I love birding in Costa Rica, but carrying around a printed field guide is not a favorite part of it. This new app is just what I have been waiting for! It doesn't have all the birds that can be seen in Costa Rica - for example, it doesn't have the Solitary Eagle. But it does have everything you're likely to see, and I'm sure the developers will continue to seek out and photograph those rarely seen species that are missing. I like the search features and I like being able to see the birds either by alphabetical listing or by family. You can mark in notes whether the bird was seen or heard, which I very much like. And, the maps help a lot. I can hardly wait for updates, such as being able to make lists for ebird.

Definitely not worth the $10.00. Many pictures missing, no support for GPS in settings, the photo page does not support normal photo dimensions when adding your own. Helps with some identification and details but would expect a lot more from an app at this price.

Good photos but lacks any information. This app is given 3-star rating only based on nice photos but should get only 1-star if based on descriptions of birds which is totally lacking. And what self-respecting Costa Rica bird guide wouldn't even include the national bird of Costa Rica? This one doesn't. It is overpriced despite the nice photos due to missing data.

not great. I am not on expert birder, but know what I am doing. This app makes identification challenging, and impossible. The birds are listed alphabetically by their proper names so if you don't know that the quetzl is called the resplendent quetzl, there is no way to find the bird. I tried many times to filter by bird characteristics and not one time did it give me the relevant bird. The photos are no good either. I am EXTREMELY disapointed because my trip to Costa Rica is over and the app didn't help me once.

Birds of Costa Rica. I recently purchased but with the Apple iSO 13.1.2 update the app doesn’t seem like it is supported. The app was not able to search species and after deleting and reinstalling the app is not launching /opening. Trying to figure out what is happening and how to contact the developer but until resolved be aware it may not interface currently with this version of apple

Excellent. I have now been using for 2 months on my visit to Costa Rica. Since I was use to Ibird Pro took a little getting use too but now find it very easy and thorough. For me it has been an excellent acquisition and considering the price for a book an excellent value. Heartily recommend.

Nice app. Bug fixed; I’m a happy camper. Looking forward to further enhancements.

Could Use Improvement. As a beginner I think it could use more filters such as throat patch or head color. Also more pictures than just one to show the opposite sex or from different angles. The ability to enlarge the photo would also be helpful (I have an iphone5).

Nice info, but hard to use. This app has a lot of data, and it is great to be able to carry around all of the birding info in your pocket. However, as another commenter pointed out, it is hard to search. You can filter birds by color, etc., but you cannot search by name. If you want to find a Quetzal for instance, the only way to do it is to scroll down the list of 622 birds until you get to “R” (R because it is listed by its full name … resplendent quetzal). if you are an expert birder that is comfortable with bird names, etc., this app might be useful. For a beginning birder that just wants to get an idea of what they are seeing on a trip to Costa Rica, it is not very useful.

Could be something but it is what it is.. You get exactly what you expect from people from Panama creating a book for another country. The range maps are god awful. They could of spent a little time im trying to make them even a little accurate. How about actually adding a rare color to the maps instead of telling us bare faced ibis residents. So many of these inaccuracies. For people that boast on their photos. You would think there would be more. Or actually good Ones. So many talented photographers could of been used in submissions. The audio is basically the worst. No consistency what so ever. If you are just an average birder or non birder. This online book will barely get you by. They could of done so much more with this. Or spent time creating it. Also never updates species. Lots of wrong names and merges that will likely never get changed. I give it 2 stars cause it’s adaquate as a list for the country. It pretty much ends there

Excellent Value. We went on a two week birding trip in Costa Rica. I had ordered a plastic bird card in addition to the book. I saw this app and thought it was only a few dollars more than the plastic card so I downloaded it. In the field, I stopped carrying the book and card and only used the app. The rest of the group were constantly asking to see it even though our excellent guide had the book. The only con is that the families are listed under the scientific name rather than common. When you type in hummingbird, not all the listed hummingbirds come up. We have been birding in a number of Central and South American countries where even finding a decent book was difficult. We were delighted to find this great app. The other reviewer stated that the national bird, clay colored thrush, is not listed. I just checked the app and it is there. Suggest he use the search function at the top of the lists. You have to scroll up to get to it.

Excellent App. I was surprised to see low ratings for this app, then noticed most were 7-9 years old! It has been updated many times since it’s release and is now, late 2023 an excellent app for birding in Costa Rica. To be clear you will not find a serious birder in Costa Rica without this APP!

Avid Birder. The alphabetical list by Name is on the first name and is virtually useless. The alphabetical list by Group is sorted on the name of the first bird in the group. For example Grosbeaks, Buntings & Allies is listed under G. You would have to know the Buntings are in this group, since you can’t look it up alphabetically. There is a workaround. Click on Filter Bird List top right of screen. Click on Group, the first box. If Alphabetic is showing on the top right of the screen, select it and an Alphabetic listing of the bird groups appears. Much easier to scroll through this list to pick up other birds in the list, for example Sparrows in the Group Seedeaters, Finches & Sparrows. Selecting the list of interest allows you to return to the bird filter screen, shows the number of birds found, and by selecting

Should be much more comprehensive at this price. Information provided is minimal & not worth the price...

So happy to have this handy app. Love the photos, sounds and range maps. A very needed tool.

Flaws. app helpful but has major needs. If looking at a bird, you cannot go back to where you started looking at that bird, but it reverts to the beginning. You then have to scroll thru it all again. Also no way to put in a search for bird looking for, for example, a tanager, but have to scroll down thru everything. Needs major update.

Unable to close page from email section!. Unable to return to the main menu. It is stuck on the email section!

Great App. Several of us had this app on our iPhones on our recent trip to Costa Rica. It ended up being a very useful tool.

excellent supplement to field guide. Although I may never completely untether from the book format field guide, this app superbly supplements the most current such field guide. Of the three named contributors/developers, two are among the most highly regarded birding guides in Costa Rica (both mentioned most recently by Richard Garrigues in the acknowledgments of the second edition of his field guide), and their expertise is ably demonstrated in the species accounts. They continue to add new species , new photos,new range maps and new sound recordings. And this birder is grateful to the developers for NOT following the trend of so many. Their updates are not limited to devices with only the most current OS. The current app release 3 can be used on devices with OS 5 or later, which means that I retain full functionality on my iPot Touch 4G. Anyone interested in the birds of Central America will enjoy this app, and birders will welcome the availability of supplementary information and bird sound recordings in the field.

Great app. Great photos! Super app support! Haven't used it in Costa Rica yet, but am excited to do so this summer!

Based on How it Works, Very Good.. We’re going to CR soon and I read about this; read about the developers; got it and ran it through some paces. It could use more pics of some of the birds but several are well illustrated. I cannot judge the correctness of data about the birds but two of the developers earn their livings leading bird watching tours in Costa Rica, where they all live; I can’t imagine they’d want to be associated with shoddy information. As I write there are 578 birds in the app. You can filter them by Group, by Region/Stratum, by Color, Size, Head Pattern, Underparts, Back and Sound. Each one (I haven’t viewed them all) has information consisting of Field Marks, Description, Habitat, a range map and a place for you to write notes. Of the birds in the filter you can sort them alphabetically or by group or family. I’m impressed by the job they’ve done and I look forward to using the app in CR. If they had a few more pics and some more sounds I’d give it a 5.

Biologist, retired. I used this in Nicaragua and it was a big help. Shortcomings: alphabetical listing is by the first word in the common name. You can't search for "dove, inca" or "dove, mourning", you have to search for "inca" or "mourning" which makes no sense at all. The photos are wonderful. Families are listed, but not in alphabetical order, a real drag. It wouldn't take much to make this a great ap for us amateur birders.

Disappointed. Few and poor quality photos, poorly organized, many likely birds missing. This app is NOT worth the cost!!! Worst app I've ever purchased.

Convenient but needs work. Easier to use than a book-the search functions are good. But the list function will not display location option long enough to turn it on. Almost impossible to add notes and they don't display. Needs more flight photos. I wish all birding apps worked like Collins Europe.

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Great, but needs updating. I purchased this app for my iPod Touch 3. I like it: It's easy to use and has excellent content. Only, not all birds have vocalisations. I can only hope it will be updated. This expressed, don't hesitate to get it in advance of birding in Costa Rica.

Good but to be improved. This app is very useful with songs for most birds and often more than one picture. But it is unfinished. The problems are two. First it is not easy to find a bird in the list if you dońt know its full name, or group, or family. There should be a search bar for all search lists with keywords. Second problem: the notes section is useful, but there should be one textbox to add comments, like the date seen, the place, maybe more than one sighting, the gender seen. It does not need to be a complex tabulation, just space to write notes. And after having saved the note, one should be able to go back to thumbnails.

Good and getting better. Have had this app for some time and don't agree with the negative comments! It has been updated several times with additional species and pics. And it has a feature that allows you to record the song or take a pic or choose from your photo library and submit it to get help in identifying a bird you have seen or heard. And response is usually pretty quick. So for identifying birds in Costa Rica it is a great app.

Audio+range maps, very handy. This app is well worth the price, and worth taking along birding. In effect a complete field guide --though only with photos, not illustrations -- the inclusion of both range maps and audio calls makes it hugely useful. There is also field guide text giving field marks, status and habits. The app is well laid out to fit on the iPhone screen, making it nicely portable for use in the field. It also works well on iPad, using the larger screen to show its photos to full benefit. My only wish would be a time bar when playing the audio calls. Also, the species with no audio still have the audio icon, just paler but in the same color. This is too subtle. Better would be a different icon indicating no audio is available or a clearer color difference, e.g. Red for none (this info could be displayed in the list view as well -- there is room, especially on iPad . In fact, you could add audio playback buttons in the list view.

Don't get it. This app sucks, most of the photos are of poor quality, the info is sparse, the buttons to move between pages don't function properly, there is no way to compare birds beside each other. Save your money and don't buy this app.

Update?. I just re-downloaded this app after updating my iphone to 13.3. It now shows 1/3 screen pictures and text. It used to work perfectly. I don’t know if it is their new version, or if the app is not compatable with ios 13.3.

kicked out. I am following up on my review of Costa Rica birds app. I've used it for years. I was unhappy when my phone update caused the app to malfunction. The developer contacted me and has updated the app. It works perfectly. It's very simple to use. It is not an exhaustive source of information on each species but it's adequate to make an identification so that species can be studied later. Pictures and sounds are good.

Costa Rica Birds Field Guide. I feel we were ripped off paying a premium amount for an APP that is not at all useful or user friendly. Yes, the pictures are fine but unless you are already very familiar with the birds of CR, using this app for identification is frustration personified. The checklist feature is useless. Nowhere can you access or see a compilation of the birds in the checklist that you have seen. Checking the 'seen' button in the notes feature does not add the bird to your checklist. Also there is no way to edit the date and time of a sighting. The date and time recorded is fixed to the time you click the 'seen' button in the app. Yes you could make additional notes for the correct time and date but then why bother.....

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