Species Guide

Explore bird species around the world by region or search for a cool bird you're interested in. See distribution maps, photos, info and Birda user sightings. If it is up there, it is in here!

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Albatrosses Anhingas, Darters Asian Barbets Austral Storm Petrels Australasian Babblers Australasian Robins Australasian Treecreepers Australasian Warblers Australasian Wrens Australian Mudnesters Australo-Papuan Bellbirds Barn Owls Bee-eaters Berrypeckers, Longbills Birds-of-paradise Boatbills Bowerbirds Bristlebirds Bulbuls Buntings Bustards Buttonquail Caracaras, Falcons Cassowaries, Emu Cettia Bush Warblers & Allies Chats, Old World Flycatchers Cisticolas & Allies Cockatoos Cormorants, Shags Coursers, Pratincoles Cranes Crows, Jays Cuckoos Cuckooshrikes Drongos Ducks, Geese, Swans Fairy Flycatchers Fairy-bluebirds Fantails Figbirds, Orioles, Turnagra Finches, Euphonias Flamingos Flowerpeckers Flufftails Frigatebirds Frogmouths Gannets, Boobies Grassbirds & Allies Grebes Guineafowl Gulls, Terns, Skimmers Herons, Bitterns Honeyeaters Hoopoes Hornbills Ibises, Spoonbills Ifrit Jacanas Jewel-babblers, Quail-thrushes Kingfishers Kites, Hawks, Eagles Larks Leaf Warblers & Allies Logrunners Lyrebirds Magpie Goose Megapodes Melampittas Monarchs Mottled Berryhunter New World Quail Nightjars Northern Storm Petrels Old World Parrots Old World Sparrows, Snowfinches Ospreys Ostriches Owlet-nightjars Owls Oystercatchers Painted Berrypeckers Painted-snipes Pardalotes Pelicans Penguins Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels Pheasants & Allies Pigeons, Doves Pittas Plains-wanderer Ploughbill Plovers Rails, Crakes & Coots Reed Warblers & Allies Rollers Sandpipers, Snipes Satinbirds Scrubbirds Shrikes Shriketit Sittellas Skuas Starlings, Rhabdornis Stilts, Avocets Stone-curlews, Thick-knees Storks Sunbirds Swallows, Martins Swifts Thrushes Tits, Chickadees Treeswifts Tropicbirds Typical Broadbills Vangas & Allies Vireos, Greenlets, Shrike-babblers Wagtails, Pipits Waxbills, Munias & Allies Whipbirds Whistlers & Allies White-eyes Woodpeckers Woodswallows, Butcherbirds & Allies

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Highly recommend. It great that this app shows you male Vs female variations when posting. Very good database I'm really impressed.

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Great app for bird lovers

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I love using the bird app, I have a pretty good knowledge of birds. But I do have some gaps in it, so it’s nice to have a safe space to check on a sighting to confirm the species. It’s really enjoyable and I love the badges you can collect. It’s like a real life Pokémon go.

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Love this app and have used it almost daily. Lots of species information and easy to use. Love seeing birds spotted by other users in the UK and worldwide.

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Ashy Flowerpecker

Black-fronted Flowerpecker

Blood-breasted Flowerpecker

Blue-cheeked Flowerpecker

Buru Flowerpecker

Grey-sided Flowerpecker

Halmahera Flowerpecker

Louisiade Flowerpecker

Midget Flowerpecker

Mistletoebird

Olive-crowned Flowerpecker

Red-banded Flowerpecker

Red-capped Flowerpecker

Thick-billed Flowerpecker

Chestnut Forest Rail

LIFE LISTS

Forbes's Forest Rail

Mayr's Forest Rail

White-striped Forest Rail

Christmas Frigatebird

Great Frigatebird

Lesser Frigatebird

Marbled Frogmouth

Papuan Frogmouth

Solomons Frogmouth

Tawny Frogmouth

Abbott's Booby

Australasian Gannet

Brown Booby

Cape Gannet

Masked Booby

LOCATIONS

Red-footed Booby

Bougainville Thicketbird

Brown Songlark

Buru Bush Warbler

Fly River Grassbird

Gray's Grasshopper Warbler

Javan Bush Warbler

Lanceolated Warbler

Little Grassbird

Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler

New Britain Thicketbird

Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler

Papuan Grassbird

Rufous Songlark

Rusty Thicketbird

Sakhalin Grasshopper Warbler

Seram Bush Warbler

Spinifexbird

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Simply fantastic

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