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I’ve had repeatedly tried to login but it continues to tell me my login credentials are incorrect. Useless app.

Has developed a bug and now continually crashes when starting a checklists. I have uninstalled and reinstalled twice and have clicked ion link in Help section to update several times.

Obviously when the observer hears a bird there is at least one there but I’ve received feedback that I should mark as observed (marked with “X”). This requires extra key strokes switching from numeric to alphabetical and back. Why not default to observed? Then just tap or enter in the count as needed which is how it’s done otherwise. The Android version has a checkbox for “observed.”

This is an awesome app that I use all the time but recently I’m getting this error message when I tap the Sound button: “Unable to record. Sound Recognition may be enabled. You can disable it in Settings > Accessibility > Sound Recognition.” if I return to the main screen and tap the Sound button again, recording will begin. It’s unclear from this message whether these settings are in Merlin Bird ID or on my phone. I suspect you mean my phone, where Sound Recognition is turned off. Please also give us a way to “Select all” to delete sound recordings. Today I deleted 418 of them one by one. It was no fun. I’m in the United States and I’m using Merlin app version 3.5 (190–2024)

You have to switch between this and Merlin a lot for no real reason. Logging your sightings is difficult because the app doesn’t recognize the majority of locations and/or massive you have to download something to get it to recognize places? Not sure. Incredibly obtuse UX. Seemingly no way to add yourself onto another user’s walk to say that you were also on that walk. Logging a sighting requires you to add way more information than is actually necessary, like how long and far you walked for. Browsing birds in your area is difficult because you have to keep swapping between two apps. There should be some way of seeing a chronological feed of what other users have seen in your area. I do like the rarity system though which tells you how uncommon/common a bird sighting is. But overall I can’t see myself using this app

I hate this app. It’s worthless and used for national bird counts. Does not work with Merlin and why should I waste my time when the two apps don’t interface? Use iNaturalist instead. It does everything effectively and quickly.

Strange. All birds show rare after update, then suddenly everything fine. So just enter your birds and hope it fixes itself?

I have been using this app increasingly. It’s wonderful. Here are some elements for the developers that I think would continue to improve it. 1. Give users the option to make a track public. With every list at public hotspots, I include in the summary where I birded, so others can get a better sense of where to find habitat/birds. A public track would be a much more powerful way to share this. Make the default option be private track, so that folks don’t accidentally share their track unless they want to. 2. Make hotspots (and all locations) able to be nested. A general hotspot location should include under it the more specific sublocations. This way if folks birds an entire hotspot they can use general, but specific area hotspots will also accurately reflect the totals for the general location. 3. Give people the option to use direct messages. I understand eBird is first a data system, but it has a lot of potential to connect birders. With increased connection comes increased data. Similar to the track suggestion, make the default that folks can not DM you. 4. Make it easier to record sex/age/plumage in the app. This is valuable data, and I imagine many folks are like me and don’t bother to record this in the web browser after they’ve used their phone to submit a list. It would also be helpful to have a checkbox for how the bird was observed (heard only, seen only, or both). 5. Similar to #4, allow folks to submit media from the app. Thank you for the great app! Please consider these changes!

I love eBird I’m addicted, but I wish it would quit logging me out every few days. This has been an issue for as long as I’ve been using it.

This looked at first just like the website. But then the second use it took me though some tour I was not interested in and the traditional eBird functions were all deprecated. For example there is target list capability anymore. I’m not sure what this app is even for anymore

Really great functionality but the actual keying / data entry and predictive text bit is painfully slow and always has been, even on a current top spec phone. It’s a bit maddening really that something that should require the processing power of 1995 runs slow in 2025.

I’ve been using the app for years but the last several times I’ve attempted a checklist the app either stops the checklist within 1-2 minutes of starting it (ie if the app is minimized) or crashes right away. There is no opportunity to resume an unsubmitted checklist when it crashes and continue logging where you’ve been. What happened? It was very reliable before the last update.

The app is usually great, but this version of it keeps crashing on my phone.

I enjoy using this app and the Merlin Bird ID app together. It’s great!

It’s free and there is nothing else like it and nothing that can do what it does. I’m loath to criticize when… There is nothing else like it and nothing that can do with it does :-). Did I mention that it’s free?

Not sure why, but the app keeps crashing. It crashes every time I tap to explore the details of a location. Very frustrating. I tried restarting my phone to no avail.

This is a new issue. Broken in current and previous version! Cannot get into ANY submitted checklists. Please fix this bug!

Plus the “Bird Lords” email you telling you what you did or didn’t observe.

Having to sift through Latin names is tedious. It would be great to have the common names and photos as well

I didn’t even think about the concerns that he brought up. I would imagine that they could be implemented.

The app froze on the select a pac page.

I have the Merlin app too (which I love). But this one isn’t very intuitive nor user friendly and why can’t they just be in one single app since they are related?

after updating the app

Selecting a different location from where you are actually located continues to be a huge PITA for the 8 year in a row. To the devs. Hire someone from overseas to do the job you can’t. Try using your stupid app once in a while.

Maybe it’s an update gone wrong, but the app doesn’t function any more. It will not recognize my location and I cannot update any of my bird packs. I’ve emailed Cornell about it and nobody responds. Ridiculous that this is one of the most used birding apps and a bunch of really smart people can’t get it to function.

Contribute to citizen science and in return manage your sightings and all of your lists from hotspot to world life in one simple, secure place. Discover new places to bird, see which birds others are seeing and where they’re seeing them and so much more. eBird is constantly improving, I’ve been a user since the beginning. And…it’s free!

Overall the app is pretty good. The design update however has rendered much of the font unreadable. This was fine in the prior versions. I regret downloading the update. BTW before you suggest that I reduce the font size, please know not everyone can read mouse sized font.

This is why I’ve stopped donating $ to them. They use it to make things worse. They just changed things (again)—Why?!? They always take a good thing and try to mess it up. Have they brought back the daily trip report? No!! Used to be able to do that on the mobile app—no longer. Not sure why this latest change—besides making things confusing, I haven’t been able to detect a change in functionality.

I admit, this app has come a long way since the beginning, but even in 2024, it’s still lacking basic functionality, so I removed 3 stars from my original review. I use eBird for my job, so I’m using it multiple times per day when I’m in the field. I canNOT stand the fact that I have to toggle between numbers and letters every single time I want to enter the species! It should *always* start with letters! I can’t upload media in the app; instead, I have to submit a checklist through the app then take the extra step to go to ebird.org to add media. Why?? It is also infuriating that I can’t import IDs from Merlin. Instead, I have to switch back and forth between the two, which is ridiculous in 2024. Come on, Cornell, you’re sitting on piles of money most scientists can only dream of, there’s NO reason for this app to be so primitive. It’s obvious that you’ve been pouring money into Merlin, how about using some of it to improve the app at the heart of everything you’re trying to do.

Bird pack downloads are ridiculously slow - it takes several minutes to DL a single 2-4MB file; it should be a few seconds. There is no button for “update all my packs”. There is no composite US country pack. There is no auto-update option for bird packs. The bird counting interface is counterintuitive and really needs context sensitive assistance. Search interface sometimes stops working properly, requiring app restart. The bird reference info has way too few photos of birds in flight as seen from below. Most of these issues have existed for a couple of years or more, so it’s not clear whether Cornell realizes they are problems, or whether they lack the right devs to address them.

Reading some of the reviews, I agree it seems odd what you can’t do with the app that you can do on line or with Merlin. But I do find it better in fact to keep my list running in one app and using another to detect bird song.

I love the app but now since it was updated lost all the images and search function no longer working like when I try to view a bird that I captured it keeps taking me to the settings for bird packs which I had already installed and I don't know what changed or how to get it back to the way it was before it updated :(

Having to flip back and forth between the two apps to identify first then track the bird is silly. Please merge apps.

tsp on pin dont give site name, eg name of paerk needed for plan vacation trails to visit

If I want to see observations at local birding hotspots, anytime I click one I have to wait for the app to decide when it wants me to be able to click details. Could be on the fifth try, could be on the fiftieth. No idea why this happens—very bad user experience. Not to mention I really have to install bird packs to record my sightings—and when I do that multiple times in a week, it gets real old watching the pack take two minutes to download when all I wanted to do was record my findings.

When I tap to search for species the keyboard switches to numbers and special characters when it should just stay on letters. It’s extraordinarily tedious to switch back and forth

The point of Merlin is to ID birds by sound. There is no number of birds to be assumed if you are just listening. Additionally, each recording may have several hits. But transferring this information to eBird is poor at best with every ID be logged separately. Deleted the program.

This app is awesome. Recent changes are so helpful. One major change needs to be made to make it 5 stars! Almost everyone accidentally swipes an app away. In this app, even if you open it back up, it refuses to allow you to continue logging your track. Sure, you can continue to log birds but it stops tracking and time-keeping so then one must manually figure it out. What a waste of time, especially at the moment you swipe you realize it and try to get it back when you haven’t even taken another step forward! App should check your location and ask if you mean to continue. Can it really be that hard nowadays? Please, please, for the love of birding and counting, fix this situation! Thank you!!

I enjoy using the app to help identify where species have been seen but what would make it so much better would be being able to search a specific species to see where it was seen last. Also, one thing that annoyed me is every single time i open the app i get an error "Error Loading Explore". I then have to force close the app and reopen it to get it to work.

Not really user friendly.

Downloaded both eBird and Merlin to try spotting/tracking birds for the first time during Spring migration. I’m still unsure of the difference between the two apps and why you need both of them. It’s a moot point, though, because it’s impossible to sign in to either or them! I created a CornellLab account as requested and I went to me email to click the verification link, which took me back to the sign in page on my desktop computer. I try to sign in and nothing happens. I go back to the app and try to sign in there and I get an error message that I don’t have an account or that I need to verify my account. Which is impossible to do. I’ve tried in three different browsers with no success. This, this app and the Merlin app are impossible to use.

App is insisting I have no internet connection. However 5G and WiFi connectivity confirmed independently.

Since the last update I can’t get the app to do anything. It just has a message “updating” and never finishes. Disappointing.

Force me to create an account just to ID a bird. No thanks. Bye.

This app is really great when it works properly. Many little issues: —often saying it cant connect to internet when I have stromg cell signal and/or wifi connection(rendering my birding day data and personal records useless) —difficulty with tagging checklists to known hotspots (inexplicably not recognizing well known hotspots even w precise gps data available —problems w app recognizing installed bird packs —often freezes / stuck in some kind of processing loop —WAY, WAY, WAY too many error messages (not recognizing location, unsubmitted/submitted checklist, not recognizing installed pack)

Baffled why academics thought it was “smart” making two apps that require users to duplicate data entry and db storage use on their phones. The app teams needs to hire human-centered designers or product leaders that know how to make apps for humans. Make one app that does logging and ID. Stop wasting thousands of peoples’ time so we can enjoy birdwatching & citizen science instead of being on our phones.

Is a good application, but can’t participate as all my reports are “in the future”. I live in Alabama, but my time zone is Eastern. There are two locations like this as the main employers in those areas are in Georgia. This is a simple fix, but until it is in place, the app isn’t viable.

I cannot add a checklist using my mobile phone after I get home, because eBird insists on using my current location (my private address) as my birding location. This is unacceptable and there seems to be no alternative. I tried to locate the EXACT area I went birding, and add a location, but the checklist refuses to accept it and reverts to my home location. Wound up deleting my checklist. Sorry, hooded mergansers and early-season White faced ibis: we’ll have to pretend it never happened. Just our little secret :) This app used to be great. I took a break for a few years, and now the mobile app is basically unuseable, unless you like being tracked to your doorstep by total strangers! Nooo thanks.

I can barely accept strangers at ebird associating my personal ID data with my exact location, but why publish the exact coordinates? Why can’t we just say we’re in this general location, like nearest town or geographical feature? Frustrating. Plus, all the other one-star reviews are apparently still in effect. Deleted.