Over 10,000 users download African birding app
The African Bird Club (ABC) has been developing a free birding app 'Birds of Africa' as an identification guide which will eventually cover all the birds and countries in Africa. Trial versions were launched over the last two years and the latest version of this app can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play for free.
Currently you can explore details for 41 countries and more are being added regularly.
As ABC is a registered charity the app has been designed as a free resource for birders, guides, rangers, bird clubs, and young people new to birding. It contains a wealth of detail including photos, sounds, text and maps to help the user to identify birds in their local area or elsewhere.
'Birds of Africa' now includes more than 2,300 bird species and ABC is expanding it constantly with the aim of covering all African countries.
To date over 10,000 people have downloaded the app and users at the recent Pan African Ornithological Congress said it had transformed their birding. Apart from adding new species, ABC is improving the range of images as new material is made available.
You can find further details at https://www.africanbirdclub.org/apps/
You can see a video of the app's use by Bird Clubs in Nigeria at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdIkomOrXwQ&t=6s
The development of the app has been made possible because of the work of volunteers in many countries. In particular, Rockjumper Birding Tours and Tasso Leventis have provided generous financial and content support, making significant contributions towards the development and maintenance of the app. The project has been driven by ABC volunteer, John Caddick who put in over 1000 hours of his own time to create the content.
For more details check the above links or email app@africanbirdclub.org
The African Bird Club is a UK-registered charity with members from across the world. In addition to publishing journals and raising the profile of birds in Africa, it has donated more than £500,000 to conservation and research projects in Africa.
Issued on behalf of the African Bird Club by Keith Betton
16 December 2022
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