Audubon Bird Guide

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About this app

The Audubon Bird Guide is a free and complete field guide to over 800 species of North American birds, right in your pocket. Built for all experience levels, it will help you identify the birds around you, keep track of the birds you've seen, and get outside to find new birds near you.

With over 2 million downloads to date, it is one of the best and most trusted field guides for North American birds.

KEY FEATURES:

ALL-NEW: BIRD ID
It's now easier than ever to identify a bird you just saw. Enter all you were able to observe—what color was it? How big? What did its tail look like?—and Bird ID will narrow down a list of possible matches for your location and date in real time.

LEARN ABOUT THE BIRDS YOU LOVE
Our field guide features over 3,000 photos, over eight hours of audio clips of songs and calls, multi-season range maps, and in-depth text by leading North American bird expert Kenn Kaufman.

KEEP TRACK OF ALL THE BIRDS YOU SEE
With our completely redesigned Sightings feature, you can keep a record of every bird you encounter, whether you're hiking, sitting on the porch, or simply catching a glimpse of birds out the window. We'll even keep an updated life list for you.

EXPLORE THE BIRDS AROUND YOU
See where the birds are with nearby birding hotspots and real-time sightings from eBird.

SHARE PHOTOS OF THE BIRDS YOU'VE SEEN
Post your photos to the Photo Feed so other Audubon Bird Guide users can see.

GET INVOLVED WITH AUDUBON
Keep up with the latest news from the world of birds, science, and conservation, right on the home screen. Find an Audubon location near you to go birding. Or see where your voice is needed and take action to protect birds and the places they need, right from your app.

As always, if you need help with the app, or have a suggestion for a new feature, please contact us directly at beta@audubon.org. Thanks!

About Audubon:
The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation. Audubon's state programs, nature centers, chapters, and partners have an unparalleled wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to inform, inspire, and unite diverse communities in conservation action. Since 1905, Audubon's vision has been a world in which people and wildlife thrive.
Identify over 800 bird species
Updated on
Oct 28, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Location and Personal info
  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

5.07K reviews
A Google user
November 13, 2018
This app is worse than the last version I had. I use this for education in schools, and I have to click about 5 different things every time I open it just to get to the dang list of birds and their sounds. The scroll function on the field guide is also terrible. The alphabet is on the side, and you would think you could click the letter you're wanting to scroll to to get there faster, but it doesn't work, so it takes a full 15 seconds for me to get from blue jay to vulture, which is such a pain. One more thing: sometimes the sound freezes up so I have the miraculous attention of 40 kindergartners expecting to hear a turkey gobble, but it suddenly doesn't work and I have to close the app and reopen it and press through 5 things, plus scroll back to the bird I want before I can get it to play. What a time waster!
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Jennifer McCarthy
August 26, 2022
I have had this App for 5 years and LOVED it. But lately, when I log sightings, I look later and the sighting is not there. I then look up one bird I know I saw on that date, and it shows that I had a sighting, but when I click on it, it say no sighting. Very frustrating and a waste of time at this point. So 3 stars until they fix it.
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National Audubon Society
August 26, 2022
Hello Jennifer, if you update the app to the latest version 6.1.13 and make sure you enable all permissions for the app it should work great. If you have any questions email beta@audubon.org so we can diagnose the issue and get it fixed!
Bruce Bowler
August 16, 2022
meh. just downloaded the app and there already a few things that either don't work or are an annoyance. "doesn't work" problem is that clicking on the "contact us" button does nothing. the "annoyance" is why MUST I enter a location? I don't care where I saw it, just *that* I saw it. Please provide a way to enter locationless sightings. (edit) let's assume I just saw a cattle egret. I'd like to be able to enter "cattle egret" and hit "save" and be done. that simplicity is missing.
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National Audubon Society
August 16, 2022
Hi Bruce, thank you for taking the time to write a review. If you'd like to add a location-less sighting you can add the bird(s) to a custom list. Find the bird you would like to add to a list > tap on the bookmark icon > tap on the + to create a new custom list > name the custom list and save.

What’s new

Bug fixes and performance improvements.
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Phone number
+18002744201
About the developer
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY, INC.
beta@audubon.org
225 Varick St Fl 7 New York, NY 10014 United States
+1 844-428-3826

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