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Collins Bird Guide Screenshots

iPad

iPhone

About Collins Bird Guide

‘It’s much more convenient than taking a big book with you...the Collins app is fantastic.’
– Chris Packham, Metro

‘The Collins Bird Guide app is destined to become a real triumph, the ultimate in field guide apps — and deservedly so.’
– BirdGuides

The Collins Bird Guide App combines world-class illustrations and comprehensive information with intuitive design to create the ultimate field guide for passionate birders and casual birdwatchers alike. The app is based on the landmark book by Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterström, universally acknowledged as the standard European field guide. This definitive work has been reimagined for iPad and iPhone by birders for birders.

The Collins Bird Guide App provides everything you need to identify a species quickly and learn about it thoroughly. Immerse yourself in the exceptional illustrations, maps, calls and concise text. Use the powerful search filter and curated confusion lists to focus in on a species. The Collins Bird Guide App is an essential companion always to hand on your iPhone, and available to browse in full glory on your iPad.

Features include:

• 973 species covered - 843 illustrated
• 3700+ beautiful illustrations by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterström
• Detailed text covering habitat, range, identification and voice by Lars Svensson
• Record sightings, location and date with the listing tool
• Powerful search filter
• Intuitive design to quickly and easily swipe through species
• Curated lists of confusable species
• Over 1100 carefully selected songs and calls – many by Lars Svensson
• Select species names from 30 languages
• Expertly edited video clips for 811 species in the app (In-App Purchases)
• Available in English, Swedish, Norwegian, French and German
• Weighs nothing!

As well as the optional video library, the app incorporates British Trust for Ornithology/BirdWatch Ireland/Scottish Ornithologists' Club Bird Atlas 2007–11 mapping data as an in-app purchase, providing the most comprehensive location mapping of any bird guide app.

Find out more about the app and its creators: collinsbirdguideapp.com

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The Collins Bird Guide app requires iOS 15.5 or later.

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What's New in the Latest Version 2.1.7

Last updated on Apr 9, 2024

Old Versions

We've fixed some issues with text search and widgets.

Version History

2.1.7

Apr 9, 2024

We've fixed some issues with text search and widgets.

2.1.6

Mar 27, 2024

We've fixed an issue with links to BWP, and bilingual users can now search for species by scientific name.

2.1.5

Mar 20, 2024

We've improved the filtering and similar species features and added several new songs and calls. We've also fixed a few bugs and made numerous illustration and annotation improvements.

2.1.4

Jan 10, 2024

Added new calls and reinstated missing gender symbols from the annotations.

2.1.3

Dec 26, 2023

Fixed incorrect German species accounts.

2.1.2

Dec 8, 2023

We've fixed various bugs, including blurry species maps and empty widgets on iOS 16.

2.1.1

Nov 27, 2023

We've fixed various issues with the species texts and illustrations, especially in German
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We've added a new home screen widget that shows you a different bird every day. We've also added support for the German version of the Third Edition, and fixed numerous bugs.

2.1.0

Nov 21, 2023

We've added a new home screen widget that shows you a different bird every day. We've also added support for the German version of the Third Edition, and fixed numerous bugs.

2.0.6

Sep 7, 2023

We have fixed further crashes on iOS 15, and made numerous content tweaks.
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This major new update includes the recently published third edition of the Collins Bird Guide book. Existing users can buy the new content with a one-off purchase inside the app (currently only available in English and Swedish with other languages coming soon). Listing has been significantly improved and moved into its own free companion app which works seamlessly with the Collins Bird Guide. New settings are available to hide species from outside your region, change the font size, and choose to stream or download videos.

2.0.5

Aug 14, 2023

We have fixed a common crash on iOS 15 when viewing the thrushes and chats, and incorrect English IOC names.
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This major new update includes the recently published third edition of the Collins Bird Guide book. Existing users can buy the new content with a one-off purchase inside the app (currently only available in English and Swedish with other languages coming soon). Listing has been significantly improved and moved into its own free companion app which works seamlessly with the Collins Bird Guide. New settings are available to hide species from outside your region, change the font size, and choose to stream or download videos.

2.0.4

Aug 11, 2023

We have fixed several more bugs and crashes, including not being able to tap on search results to open the species accounts.
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This major new update includes the recently published third edition of the Collins Bird Guide book. Existing users can buy the new content with a one-off purchase inside the app (currently only available in English and Swedish with other languages coming soon). Listing has been significantly improved and moved into its own free companion app which works seamlessly with the Collins Bird Guide. New settings are available to hide species from outside your region, change the font size, and choose to stream or download videos.

2.0.3

Aug 2, 2023

We have fixed several bugs, including certain videos not playing and plumage illustrations not appearing. You can can once again search whilst adding species to comparison mode, and we have added more new Third Edition illustrations.
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This major new update includes the recently published third edition of the Collins Bird Guide book. Existing users can buy the new content with a one-off purchase inside the app (currently only available in English and Swedish with other languages coming soon). Listing has been significantly improved and moved into its own free companion app which works seamlessly with the Collins Bird Guide. New settings are available to hide species from outside your region, change the font size, and choose to stream or download videos.

2.0.2

Jul 26, 2023

Reinstated missing species languages plus BTO and season filtering, plus multiple bug and content fixes.
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This major new update includes the recently published third edition of the Collins Bird Guide book. Existing users can buy the new content with a one-off purchase inside the app (currently only available in English and Swedish with other languages coming soon). Listing has been significantly improved and moved into its own free companion app which works seamlessly with the Collins Bird Guide. New settings are available to hide species from outside your region, change the font size, and choose to stream or download videos.

2.0.1

Jul 19, 2023

Fixes for videos not downloading and diacritics not appearing in some languages.
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This major new update includes the recently published third edition of the Collins Bird Guide book. Existing users can buy the new content with a one-off purchase inside the app (currently only available in English and Swedish with other languages coming soon). Listing has been significantly improved and moved into its own free companion app which works seamlessly with the Collins Bird Guide. New settings are available to hide species from outside your region, change the font size, and choose to stream or download videos.

2.0

Jul 17, 2023

This major new update includes the recently published third edition of the Collins Bird Guide book. Existing users can buy the new content with a one-off purchase inside the app (currently only available in English and Swedish with other languages coming soon). Listing has been significantly improved and moved into its own free companion app which works seamlessly with the Collins Bird Guide. New settings are available to hide species from outside your region, change the font size, and choose to stream or download videos.

1.8.3

Mar 31, 2023

Fixed an issue where BTO map filtering did not work.

1.8.2

Mar 10, 2023

Fixed an issue with species accounts and added Slovenian species names.

1.8.1

Feb 7, 2023

Fixed an issue that prevented species filtering from working and made minor content improvements.

1.8.0

Sep 29, 2022

Improved the reliability of video downloads on iOS 16. Added species names for Chinese, Croatian, Japanese, Serbian and Ukrainian