bird alert PRO

About bird alert PRO

bird alert PRO from Rare Bird Alert provides birders with up-to-the-minute sightings of scarce and rare birds turning up across the British Isles. Operating since 1991, we are the longest running in-the-field birdnews service and our app carries the same speedy and reliable birdnews as featured on our pager, online and SMS services. With push notification alerts for news filters you set up, bird alert PRO is an indispensable tool for all birders.

Designed by birders for birders, the app is packed full of useful features and ways to read and be alerted to the very latest birdnews.

Main features

• Push notification alerts – set up and save individual ‘alert filters’ and get instant alerts when birds matching your criteria turn up
• Breaking birdnews sightings – instant access to all the latest birdnews with pre-defined easy to use reports, or search the sightings using your own criteria
• Sightings database – access to over 700,000 sightings from the last 10 years
• Species maps – see what birds have been seen where on an interactive map
• Species photo gallery – huge collection of photos from our users
• Submit a sighting – send us your sightings quickly and easily, GPS find-me feature makes it easy to report your sighting even if you don’t know the area.

Permanently free content includes
Bird reports - the very latest bird sightings from each county from across Britain and Ireland
Photo gallery - rare, scarce and common bird photos from Britain and Ireland

Detailed directions for specific sightings and push notification alerts can be trialled for 24 hours.

Please note the application *must* be running in order to receive live bird alert notifications.