ITHACA (AP) -- A new app for iPhone and Android smartphones allows birders to instantly report sightings to eBird, a worldwide citizen science program run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Audubon.
The eBird online database takes in more than a million bird reports each month from around the world. These reports are used by educators, land managers, ornithologists, and conservation biologists.
Birders participating in the program transfer observations from their field notebook to their computer and then to eBird. The new app called BirdLog lets them upload sightings to eBird with one click from the field.
BirdLog was developed by Birds In The Hand, creators of the BirdsEye bird-finding app, which is also based on eBird reports.
The North American version costs $10 and the wordwide one is $20.
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