Introducing our birdnews app

With over 20 years experience running Britain’s top birdnews service we listened to requests from many birders and developed a groundbreaking App, bird alert PRO. It equally suits recreational or full time birders, local birders, occasional twitchers, and the keenest of all too.

With bird alert PRO you can access to all the latest birdnews from RBA over 70,000 messages per year.  Read the news at your leisure, or be instantly alerted to all the bird sightings that are most important to you. It is packed full of lots of additional great features too.

 

Pagers vs Apps? The App will give you more features, whilst our pagers will give you much better geographical coverage in many birding areas and offer much better chances of getting the news “as soon as it breaks”. Therefore App and Pager are great as a combination, or great on their own. Pager users can get the App at reduced rates.

Available in two levels, "Lite" and "Full", flexible App subscription options will make it ideal for every birder.

Our news team is comprised of some of the UK’s most respected birders, with over 100 years of birding between them. Our reputation for quality, efficient news is second to none. You will soon see why birders have chosen to rely on our service for over 20 years.
 
 

Features
 
 

Alerts
Choose the news that's most important to you and get sent alerts as soon as that news breaks.

* Get your alerts anywhere your phone works. 
* Away for the weekend? Make the most of your trip and get the news for your trip using the clever 'find me' tool.  
* At home or the office? Get alerts for just your local news.
* County or life list? Get an alert when a new bird turns up.

If your phone is in service - you can be alerted!

 

Browse the birdnews
bird alert PRO makes looking at the latest news easier than ever. Use the Quick Searches for easy access to the latest birdnews. Use the Advanced Search to look up news for a particular species, specific place, or time, or combine all three. Plus, it's not just for current news, you get full access to over 10 years of Rare Bird Alert news reports. Each report contains detailed information about the bird along with useful directions and other species seen at the same site. View the news in report form, or, as preferred by many, in map view.

  
 

Maps
See all the birdnews on interactive maps, pinch the maps to zoom into a site. Flip between road and satellite views. For example, check out where all the Yellow-browed Warblers are being found. See the distribution of Waxwing sightings. See what birds are being reported in your area. Don't know how to get to a bird? No problem your phone can find your current location and give you real time directions to the site. Easily see what is being seen “nearby” or “en-route”. The possibilities are endless. 
 
 

Brilliantly bright photos
Use your phone's high resolution screen to view up-to-the-minute photos from our extensive gallery. Photos uploaded by users include details of where and when the image was taken. You can pinch and zoom on images and view them in both portrait and landscape modes. 

 

Subscribing

bird alert PRO is free to download and use. When you register and use it for the first time you get a 24 hour free trial. 

There are two distinct services which you can access on the app, 'Lite' and 'Alerts'.

Lite allows you to browse the birdnews on the app, searching for news, photos and other information on specific species.  This news is right up to date but you can also search our database of sightings back to 2001.

Alerts allows you set up 'Alert Filter' which will give you push notification alerts when birds are reported which match your filter.  You can set up filters to cover all aspects of birding.  Set up filters for your British, county or patch list and get alerted for birds you need, set up holiday filters and get breaking news wherever you are, twitching a particular bird? then set up a filter for alerts alerts on that particular bird.  With an Alerts subscription you also get access to our online service RBA Online.

You can purchase a subscription to either service or combine them both with a Full subscription.

Existing RBA Online customers: you can download the app and get a 24 hour free trial.  For continued use you can upgrade your subscription for just £10 per year or £1 per month.

Existing RBA pager customers: along with your free subscription to RBA online you get a Lite subscription included in your existing pager subscription.
 
 

Services and features
 
  Full Alerts Lite  
         
         
Alerts
 Push notifications

   
         
Birdnews reports
with full sighting details		    
         
Gallery  
         
Submit sightings  
         
RBA Online add-on £10  
         
Costs        
         
1 day £1.50 £1.25 £0.50  
         
3 days £4.00 £3.00 £1.25  
         
7 days £7.00 £5.50 £2.50  
         
1 month £19.00 £15.00 £7.50  
         
1 year £159.00 £139.00 £40.00  
         
         
     
     
 

bird alert PRO is free to download and you will get a 24 hour free trial when you register. Get it from the App Store today.  You can subscribe by following the links in the app once downloaded.