Lifer - Bird ID & Birding

Sharing: • Share your catches as pictures: choose a card, photo or stats style, pick a background, and decide whether to include your name, date, place and the bird’s call as a spectrogram. • Share a catch link: friends with Lifer can open your catch in the app, while everyone else can view it on our website. • Share your customised bird cards, including their frames, nicknames and special finishes. New Mastery and Trophies styles show your progress and medals. • Tap the person on a shared catch to visit their profile. Nests: • Choose how you appear in Nests: Anonymous or by name. Change your choice in Settings or on any Nest you’ve joined. • Nests are opening in the United States for adults aged 18 and over, with an agreement before taking part. • On Home, tap Guardian of or Contributed to to see your Nests and open them directly. • Added more organisation badges, including National Park Service, Audubon, Wildlife Trusts and Woodland Trust. • Improved privacy for anonymous members, and fixed cases where leaving a Nest or turning off automatic participation was blocked. Sound ID: • Smoother listening: Lifer now prepares sound for Sound ID in native code, and the Catch screen does much less work while it listens. • Fixed an iPhone issue that could freeze listening at “0s” with a blank spectrogram. • Listening recovers better after phone calls and headphone changes. • Audio Catch catches crows more reliably, takes your region into account, and needs stronger evidence before catching a Redwing. • Birds now fly and land more naturally, and swap perches when a different bird takes the lead. Camera Catch and Field Camera: • Removing a catch from its card no longer freezes Lifer, and takes you straight back to the camera. • Field Camera: select several saved photos to remove together, or clear them all. Photos now show Caught, Ready to catch or No match, and name the bird you actually caught. • Camera Catch now confirms “Review sent” after you request a review. • Fixed Pro members incorrectly being told their free Camera Catches were used up. • After Save for later, Delete or Back, you return to your saved photos. Birding around the world: • Catching now works in China and Japan, with each country’s own birds and rarities. • Improved habitat detection in the US and Canada, covering Catch screen backgrounds, habitat badges and challenges. • Outside the UK, Bird of the Day no longer briefly shows Great Britain’s bird when Lifer opens. Settings and other fixes: • Your audio, camera and walk settings are backed up to your account, ready to restore if they’re missing after a reinstall or on a new phone. • Deleting a catch is quicker, especially with a big collection. If you delete your best catch at a spot that day, the remaining catches’ points update correctly. • Catch location sharing loads more reliably when Lifer starts. Changes also appear straight away when sharing a catch as a picture. • Improved location protection for sensitive species and added checks against sudden, implausible GPS jumps. • Bird of the Day facts now display in full. • The back of a Ghostwing card gives the right dates: 21 to 31 October.