tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283005317456814429.post6485928571159565595..comments2024-02-21T04:41:15.485-05:00Comments on Birding with Kenn and Kimberly: iPhone Users: The App Is Out ThereKenn Kaufmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04770640232654807723noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283005317456814429.post-2892324166067796752010-02-26T18:18:40.861-05:002010-02-26T18:18:40.861-05:00Hot off the press! The iPhone app BirdsEye that K...Hot off the press! The iPhone app BirdsEye that Kenn has helped create is a New York Times selection for "App of the Week." Here's the link: http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/app-of-the-week-spot-spring-on-the-wing/<br /><br />And even hotter, Apple just released BirdsEye version 1.2. This has 2 great improvements. <br /><br />First, it lets you keep track of rare birds and notable observations (seeing a common bird at a time or place it shouldn't be). <br /><br />Second, it now contains all of the content (Kenn's great text, VIREO photos, Cornell sound) for all species. You don't have to buy more content from the app store. <br /><br />BirdsEye helps birders have fun by guiding them to more birds!Pete Myershttp://getbirdseye.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283005317456814429.post-51693834233393623132009-12-07T21:29:29.012-05:002009-12-07T21:29:29.012-05:00Dan, Thanks for the good questions. For the time ...Dan, Thanks for the good questions. For the time being, the idea is just to show birds reported at hotspots. There are some people who report birds from private property, and the thought is that they would be apprehensive about reporting rarities if they knew that the location might be given out to the world. By sticking to areas that have been established as hotspots, we can avoid having issues like that. One partial solution is to have more birding sites that are open to the public designated as hotspots within eBird. <br /><br />As for downloading lists from eBird into the app, that's a good question. It might well be possible to work that into an update. I'll raise the question with the guys who know how to do the programming. Thanks for the suggestion.Kenn Kaufmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04770640232654807723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283005317456814429.post-56406538754098644982009-12-06T22:33:13.267-05:002009-12-06T22:33:13.267-05:00Kenn, I grabbed the APP as soon as it was release...Kenn, I grabbed the APP as soon as it was released. I enjoy it quite a bit with only a day or two of use.<br /><br />One quick comment / question: will there be more than just 'hotspots' shown on the App? Obviously, great birds appear, well, wherever they'd like to appear, regardless of the classification of the birding site. Is it a privacy issue? <br /><br />Perhaps in the "Locate A Bird" portion, the bird's whereabouts could be generalized to a geographic dot on a map? That could get dicey I suppose... just a thought.<br /><br />Lastly, for those eBird users... will there be a way to download to my phone my life, county and state lists from the data already entered into eBird?<br /><br />Great work! <br /><br />-Dan HaasNervous Birdshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00591540705434753046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283005317456814429.post-20247683561776139622009-12-05T00:10:41.834-05:002009-12-05T00:10:41.834-05:00Hi Dave,
Thanks for the comment. What I would sug...Hi Dave, <br />Thanks for the comment. What I would suggest is that, if you're not doing this already, you go to the eBird site and explore it. It's at http://ebird.org/ - eBird won't have the photographs, sounds, or my text comments, but it does have the full database of all the birds that have been reported; with enough digging around on eBird you can find a lot of the information about hotspots and about the birds that have been reported there recently. The thing about the BirdsEye app is that it streamlines the process, so that in a few seconds you can get the information that might take a couple of hours to ferret out on eBird. But eBird is a very worthwhile project, and we would encourage all serious birders to report their sightings to it, as well as exploring the site for information.Kenn Kaufmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04770640232654807723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283005317456814429.post-90605404159198983552009-12-04T22:41:25.614-05:002009-12-04T22:41:25.614-05:00I was wondering if there was a chance that this co...I was wondering if there was a chance that this could be a program or membership site that will be on the internet. I do not have an iPhone yet and will not be getting one until my contract is out with Verizon, but would have liked access today.DDolanhttp://www.surfbirds.com/blog/DDolan1075/noreply@blogger.com