Buggy app, bad support
The functionality to report changes to Audubon doesn't work. The functionality to leave feedback to the app developers also doesn't work. They never responded to an email I sent explaining these problems. Don't waste your money.
Okay For Quick Check
As I recall, at one point you could enter all the circles you’re involved with. Now it only allows entry on map of one circle at a time. Put in a 2nd one and 1st one disappears...or I’m missing something.
Great for the 5MR Challenge!
If you’re doing the 5MR (five mile radius) local patch challenge, you need this app.
Easy as pie to set up your circle, and you’re off!
Easy as pie to set up your circle, and you’re off!
Great for rural road edges
If you do a rural route, this app is especially useful for knowing when you reach the edge of the circle on a rural road with no distinctive landmarks.
The app uses the National Audubon Society count circle database, and makes it very obvious how many errors the NAS has in its database. If nothing else, it should prompt NAS to clean up its circle locations. The good news is that you can manually move the circle center on the app to the real location. You can't change the NAS database, but for the purposes of doing your particular circle, you can set it up to use the correct location on your iPad or iPhone.
The app uses the National Audubon Society count circle database, and makes it very obvious how many errors the NAS has in its database. If nothing else, it should prompt NAS to clean up its circle locations. The good news is that you can manually move the circle center on the app to the real location. You can't change the NAS database, but for the purposes of doing your particular circle, you can set it up to use the correct location on your iPad or iPhone.
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Very useful for CBCs
Very handy tool to both find a Christmas Bird Count (CBC) circle or for staying inside a circle while conducting a CBC. The developers are very responsive to changes to cout circle locations. I am a CBC compiler and when I entered a correction for the count center that National Audubon Society (NAS) had wrong for sometime (yes, the circle locatons are from NAS, so any location errors belong to NAS), they incorporated the change in the latest version. I hope NAS gets the coordinates correct as well since the correction I submitted went directly to them.
Wish list: Having the ability to see all of the count circles in a given area would be usefull for planning trips as well as gleaning locations where one could go to the NAS dabase for more information. Providing a direct link from a count circle to the NAS database to see historic bird data would also be very handy.
Wish list: Having the ability to see all of the count circles in a given area would be usefull for planning trips as well as gleaning locations where one could go to the NAS dabase for more information. Providing a direct link from a count circle to the NAS database to see historic bird data would also be very handy.
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