Cornell is turning into a money suck
I love watching and recording birds. I have participated in the feeder watch program in previous years. I donate to the Cornell’s efforts when I can and have a subscription so I was appalled when I found out you know heave to pay even more money to participate in this program. I’m on a fixed income- very disappointing so I will probably drop my subscription next year and definitely stop donating. This is no longer a non-profit for a good cause.
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Easy and Fun to Use
Update 2: Feb2026 Using for a couple months now and rock solid. The reviews about bugs are outdated. Update: just updated to version 2.4.42 (19Nov2025) and it seems to work well now. Good support and responsive to the bugs which were in the previous versions. This app is generally simple to use and straightforward. Make it very simple to track bird sightings at the bird feeder. Nice interface and also neat data summaries available. (Note: previous versions were buggy, but this version seems to be fixed)
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This app doesn’t even deserve a star
I thought that this app would be a great experience for me to help log bird counts but no. Apparently you would have to pay a freaking $18!!
This app is completely useless for those who would rather spend $18 on something else.
This app is completely useless for those who would rather spend $18 on something else.
Easy and Fun to Use
Update: just updated to version 2.4.42 (19Nov2025) and it seems to work well now. Good support and responsive to the bugs which were in the previous versions. This app is generally simple to use and straightforward. Make it very simple to track bird sightings at the bird feeder. Nice interface and also neat data summaries available. (Note: previous versions were buggy, but this version seems to be fixed)
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Buggy - Birds saved, then disappear
Update: just updated to version 2.4.36 and it still losing birds that I entered. Viewing gallery and there are 16 birds, back out to main screen and it says there are 14 birds. Buggy. This app is generally simple to use and straightforward. The problem is that after entering birds they later can just disappear for no reason. For some reason, the counts get lost. Kind of makes it hard to take part in this project and makes you wonder what kind of data is actually being submitted. Probably not very reliable data with this app currently.
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Response from developer
Hello, we have been trying to track down this issue but have not seen it on our end. Is there any way you can take a screen capture and send it to our support email? (feederwatch@cornell.edu) Please use subject line “iOS Screen capture” Thank you. I assure you we are working hard to get to the bottom of this.
