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Thanks for the compliment. This is just the 1.0 MVP release. I've got a number of ideas on the roadmap. My intention was to build a birding app for the casual

Thanks for the compliment. This is just the 1.0 MVP release. I've got a number of ideas on the roadmap. My intention was to build a birding app for the casual birder. Birds Eye covers the hard core birder market, I wanted something more approachable. eBird is really great. It's amazing that it's been running for 10 years. It's really caught on in North America. I'm hoping with this app we will start to get more data around the world (localization is scheduled for the 1.1 release :)

smackay 12y ago
I think there's a decent amount of latent interest in the environment in general and birds in particular since they are probably the most visible. The hard part is getting from somewhat interested to quite interested - that would make a big difference in environment issues - but that's hard to do unless you find out about local birds clubs, etc. which are really targeted at the serious/obsessed birder. Cornell do a reasonable job of engaging people's interest and the data available on eBird should help. eBird adoption is growing here in Portugal - the main advantage is the moderation which is useful in keeping out the, shall we say, less reliable observations. As a result we see a decline in the use of other databases as people move to eBird. I use the eBird API for www.birdinglisboa.com which provides a news service for birders in the Lisbon area.</shameless plug>