iBird Hawaii & Palau Guide App revisa

Great sound recordings help with ID of rainforest birds.

In the area to learn more in how to search and other ‘learn more’ links, the page says we’re sorry. Yep, I’m sorry I can’t learn more to how to optimize how I use this app. :) Some of the birds near me, Black-necked Stilt, and other endangered species don’t appear on the list of Hawaiian birds or the birds near me. Yet I know they here are because I’ve seen them. Realizing I may not be searching right because the link doesn’t work.

You can search by soooo many features. Tail shape! Song type! Prominent color! All of these have enabled me to ID birds that would have been otherwise unknowable.

Fun to use on our recent trip to Kauai. I would like a better photo of the female White-rumped Shama.

IBird answers all my questions and informs me of birds location and status.

Very helpful, wonderful photos, the call section is particularly informative.

Love the search features. Great quality.

You’d think these folks could get the Hawaiian words spelled correctly. But NO. Look at the range maps. Kahoʻolawe is spelled Kahoolwe. The Hawaiian alphabet has five vowels, eight consonants including the okina(ʻ). Hawaiian: ʻAkiapolaʻau. MWG: Akiapolaau.

I have only used the part of the App that deals with Palau but is great. Excellent photos and good help on where to find the birds.

While I am glad iCloud has been made available for data storage, I am disappointed that it is at the expense of Dropbox being available for storage. I have room in drop box but not in iCloud to store iBird data. Since Dropbox is no longer available I will no longer be able to store my data. Is there a way to give the app user a choice of either for storage? Thanks for making such a great app!

Another home run for Mitch Waite and his team. Excellence is the standard for all the Mitch Waite programs. THANK YOU!!!

My friend forwarded iBird's newsletter which helped me discover this is the best reference guide to birds of Hawaii. I've been to the Big Island many times and been frustrated with the books about bird life. None for example could tell me where to find the rare Akiapolaau or the Lavender Waxbill which is native to Africa. iBird Hawaii's great range maps showed me exactly where to find them both (the Waxbill is on the west coast). I love the Birds Around Me feature - I centered the map on the Mamalalahoa Highway on the West coast of Hawaii and found the Lavender Waxbill and the Omao were both nearby. Happy days. I've always wanted to visit Palau for its skin diving and now that I have an app with all its birds its on my bucket list. awesome quality illustrations and love the songs and calls.

I've been searching for a books or apps that cover birds of the Hawaiian islands and have been very disappointed. But that's all changed with iBird Hawaii Guide to Birds. The illustrations are gorgeous and there are hundred of photos but my favorite feature is the search engine for identification. After using it for a week I'm beginning to learn how the birding experts think which is very cool. The addition of Palau is very welcome as I have heard of this island and the bird life there is supposed to be incredible. After playing with the app and learning about Palau I pan to visit. I'm using iBird Journal along with this app to create checklists of species I'm likely to encounter on Maui. So I'll report my results when I get back from my vacation to Maui next week.

This is absolutely the best resource for birds of Hawaii on the market, be it book or app. The free addition of the island of Palau is amazing. Thank you iBird.

I'm really enjoying this app. Instead of a guidebook, everything is here in the app! Searching by location or traits has helped me figure out what I was looking at so I could share with others. Building a favorites list is a great way to keep track of what I've seen, so I can tell my birder friends when I get back home.

I bought this the day it came out because coincidentally it was the same day I arrived in Hawaii. The app is all you expect if you have used ibird and such. I just wish I could have it only list birds for a particular island and also just show endemics.