eBird Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience37.1% of reviews
Neutral18.2% of reviews
Negative experience44.7% of reviews

~ Based on 369 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about eBird

Is eBird Safe?

eBird appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for eBird is 77/100.

This assessment is based on 827 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.8/5.

Safety Analysis

67.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
9.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
22.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 824 App Store ratings for eBird.

Is eBird Legit?

eBird appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for eBird is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Idioma BRASIL

ótimo app porém não consigo instalar pacote de aves em português pt Brasil!

Push notifications for rare birds!

Awesome app I used it all the time, much of my job involves birdwatching so this app works great and I’m happy to provide citizen science data to the community. But guys, please create push notifications for rare birds. The email notifications are not good enough. Thanks. Seriously please.

Confused

Difficult to get started I recommend using YouTube versus trying to get help from them because all they will do is send you standardized correspondence and it will not help you

Dangerous

This app shares your first and last name online, along with every location you’ve identified birds at. My stalker googled my name, and used this ebird to locate me. When I attempted to delete my account for my safety, it said I was not authorized to do so. Shame on them!

Cannot see Cornells name without thinking sexual assault & poor discipline from mens rugby team

All Cornell male varsity sports should be cancelled until they take SA prevention and upstanding training

I dig the integration with Merlin

It’s wonderful to now have the ability to add trimmed audio recordings from Merlin to a bird list before submitting it. The audio trim function works really well. Hope you are able to collect many more recordings with this new feature.

2:24

Made me reset my password 10 times. Then finally accepted the password. When I tried to sign in with the saved password, it said I did not have authorization. Its a birding app….for christ’s sake, not fort knox.

A1

Best birdwatching app

New to the app

It serves well for reporting birds I see, and I’m trying to change to the app more often. I usually forget to use it while out walking and birding.

观鸟人离不开的平台

有太多太多好用的功能,App不冗杂不臃肿,主要依靠网页版,很喜欢这样的定位

Das beste Gesamtpaket auf dem Markt!

eBird ist das Maß aller Dinge. Die Produkte von Cornell sind durchweg genial und arbeiten perfekt zusammen (super Schnittstelle zu Merlin ID und Birds of the World). Auch international und im Urlaub ist eBird für die Vorbereitung und Recherche unverzichtbar. Ganz klar die Zukunft!

Haven’t been able to access my account for days.

No way to email for help that I can find on their site and I can submit any reports because I keep getting a connection error

Glitchy and unreliable

The apps keeps trying to auto update even when you have zero service and when it’s trying to update you can’t make any lists, keeps pestering you to update packs and when I finally did the app glitched out and going back in I lost 100+ unsubmitted lists (didn’t have service), they just disappeared, what a joke of an app, extremely disappointing (or maybe this is expected given how broken the Merlin app is as well)
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Faulty app doesn’t install fully

Tried to install this but fails to progress/allow installation of bird packs. It doesn’t list any.
Tried reporting to the developer and got no response.
I’d give this a hard pass.

Does not work

The app doesn’t allow me past the download packs screen, so unfortunately, I can’t even use the app at all.

Interesting app

Separate app from Merlin which I have been using for years. Will see how this plays. Always interested in being a citizen scientist observer of nature!

Omg what did you do?

Latest “greatest” version wiped out my recordings from years and more. Forced to create a username and login, I had to begin downloading packs again. Downloading is slow.

What happened to what packages I had that existed before? I had some for other regions in the world. Recordings of those birds lost. Unbelievably sad.

I have zero of my history. Nada.

I am hugely disappointed in this. It was one of my favorite apps. Definitely a bad decision on Cornell’s part to leave users behind.
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Was great, but now stopped working

It was good until it stopped. I can’t submit my checklist. Can’t get support. Looks like we’re finished with this app.

Excellent For Data Collection & Research

1) Good for Observed Bird Data storage
2) Very helpful in Searching species
3) Good tool for Data Analysis & Research
Note : Review and Clearance of Unconfirmed List Processes is too slow!

Incredible app! Please add a widget feature

I’d love to see a widget for easy accessibility