g-Bird Android

Hi everyone
The Android version of g-Bird was recently released and is available for Free download from the Google PlayStore.
The app is aimed at making it quick, easy and loads of fun to record what you are currently viewing in the field and provide a large amount of feedback including maps, lists, reports, out-of-range vetting and trip-counters. Once uploaded, your sightings will then also be viewable in 3-D GoogleEarth on www.g-bird.org and can be emailed to others who birded with you.

The app can be used in any country in Africa and features full Country lists for each country in several different languages. Each sighting added from your trip is shown to fall either inside or outside of its known distribution range for that species at the point where you recorded it. I have found this to be really useful when birding in an area outside of where I am familiar with and am not sure as to whether a particular species should occur there. The immediate feedback gives one the chance to re-id the bird while it is still in front of you in the case of it being confused with a similar species.