eBird by Cornell Lab

Cool little app. Not discovered all features yet. Partners great with the merlin app! Useful offline maps and ability to create a list. Only gripe so far is it always defaults to current location on explore option. I want to set the location to where I'm going. When I try to set location using map, it still defaults to current location. Other than that very good app. Recommended! Thanks for creating this app and sharing it with us all ; )

The 3 stars is for the update. Such a shame as it's a 5-star app. It's a case of I wish I'd never seen the update, and can I have my old app back please :) 3 stars though because it's still excellent but old interface was much better, especially location. All my private locations (like home, or counties passing through on motorway, etc, etc) which I never uploaded to ebird as didn't necessarily fit their criteria, even though super useful for me, have vanished. If a thing ain't broke..

As Alexander Hamilton says this app in a previous version used to be reliable wherever you had a mobile signal. In order to use it away from that you had to "preload " a checklist. As I always knew where I was going and rarely went to areas where there was no signal tho app worked perfectly for me. This new version is supposed to revert to a basic list if you have a poor GPS signal ( which can and does happen in areas where you had a great signal 5 minutes ago, all day the previous day , etc....i.e. there is no way of knowing when you're going to get a good signal. 9 times out of ten it reverts to a UK list in the UK, ad then you can choose one that suits your purpose from previous locations , or use the full UK list. It is te tenth out of ten yhay is the problem. Sometimes when toy are not getting a good signal it sticks on "Waiting for GPS accuracy" , which it is meant to leave after 15 seconds if you aren't getting a signal..and an hour later you still can't get past that, even if you come completely out of ebird and start from scratch. Just as suddenly it can start working again.Occasionaly it gets to "waiting for GPS accuracy" , goes until your phone dims and when you turn on the screen again just crashes ebird and you can then try again. If you are putting multiple lists on , because it uses GPS, it is a huge drain on the barttery compared to the previous version , but that is only a worry if you're putting 30 or more lists on in a day. My verdict is "should be a lot better" I still use the app , but it can be infuriatingly frustrating at times , and sometimes reversion to pen and paper is necessary as it just won't work. I love e-bird and wish they'd ge this app working properly