ButterflyCount vs ButterflyCounts

The world is increasingly aware of the perilous state of wildlife, and there have been widescale reports of declines in numbers of insects. Butterflies are no exception, being threatened in many parts of the world. There is an urgent need to greatly improve the knowledge of this vital part of biodiversity to help inform their conservation. This App enables you to contribute to butterfly conservation by providing important information on where different species occur and the numbers found in different places across the world. Contribute your counts of butterfly species alongside accurate location information, added via a dynamic map or via GPS acquired route information. You can add photos to support your observations. This free resource makes it easy to keep track of what you see, while making your data openly available for scientific research, education and conservation. Your data will be kept securely and will regularly backed up. Your sightings will be made available to experts to review and, with support of national co-ordinators, will be shared with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) to enable them to be used for wider research to support conservation. Features • Works fully offline • Enter lists of butterfly species from any location, with minimal effort • Full list of butterfly species for countries across the world • ‘Record as you go’ functionality for incremental listing and counting butterflies • Map tools that enable you to add the area counted for butterflies • Checklists customised for your preferred country • Entire app translated in multiple languages • Share your sightings with others interested in monitoring butterflies • Contribute to science and conservation

Welcome to ButterflyCounts, an App used to log butterfly species data that one finds in the field. Introduction: There are numerous butterfly experts and citizen scientists in India involved in conducting systematic repeated surveys of butterflies in forests and around urban areas. This App helps in cataloguing the observed species data in the field, detailed list can be downloaded later from the App to the IPhone. Key Features: - Butterfly species names selectable from preloaded lists - Presently two preloaded lists of India are available - * IBMS Urban-Greeneries butterflies (Courtesy Prof. Krushnamegh Kunte, NCBS, IBMS, IFB, Bengaluru) * TNHS Western Ghats butterflies (Courtesy Dr. Kalesh Sadasivan, Travancore Nature History Society, Kerala) - These lists contain both scientific and common names of the butterflies. - Output to IPhone in CSV (Comma Separated Values) format to suit databases for research requirements. - Output data file contains GPS location, butterfly species name, count and times of observation. - Not-for-profit : This app is free for use and does not contain Ads. Why Choose ButterflyCounts? - User friendly for collecting butterfly data. - Developed with butterfly experts,extensively field-tested and being routinely used - Simple output for plugging into any database software - Butterfly species lists can be easily added by the developers in the future. Download ButterflyCounts today and stop manual logging. Terms of Service : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/