What is the Birda Species Guide?
The Birda Species Guide is a free extensive guide to the birds around you and across the world, containing over 10,000 bird species!
What bird info is included in the Birda's Species Guide?
Birda's species guide is one of the most comprehensive species guide in the world and best of all it it free! Here is some of the awesome content you can expect to find in the species guide for each species:
Species Reference Images
Species Descriptions
Distribution Maps
Fun Facts
Similar Species
Species Photos
Species Sightings
How can I access Birda's Species Guide?
You can find the species guide in several places in the Birda app:
Press the Book icon in the top right corner, next to the Notification bell. Here, you'll see a list of all the species near you, ordered from most to least common for your exact location. For more information on Birda's species lists and how they are orders, take a look at the 'Species lists on Birda' article.
Head to the 'Discovery' screen in the bottom menu and tap the 'Species Guide' option.
You can also press the bird name in any session or sighting post on the app to open the Species Guide page for the specific species.
You can also access the Species Guide for any particular species when you are logging a session or a sighting. Simply tap on the species image in the species list to open the guide page.
You can also access Birda's Species Guide on the web via the Birda Web App.
Different ways to view the species guide
The Species Guide defaults to the nearby view where your current location is used to produce a list of species specifically customised for you location. In this view the species list is ordered from most to least common. If you want to get a customised species list for a location other than your current location, then simply tap on the arrow icon (to the right of the search field) and change the location to anywhere in the world to see the species at the specific location you have selected.
To change the Species Guide to an A-Z list of species for any specific region, tap the cog icon in the top right corner to change from Nearby to A-Z. Then tap the globe icon if you want to change your species region and view birds in other regions around the world.
Why is my bird not there?
The Birda species guide is continually updated, so if a species near you doesn't have a photograph or much information yet, this will soon be resolved.