Birding Blitz for Android

11 things about Birding Blitz

1. To enter a bird, type at least 3 characters of the bird's name (there are over 1,100 in the Birding Blitz database) and select your bird from the scrollable list by tapping the species' photo.

2. Birding Blitz uses your GPS location and Internet based reverse-geocoding to assign points to each bird.

3. Birding Blitz is a birding app where you compete against yourself or others to identify as many species of birds as possible within a predefined period and geographical area.

4. Once completed, you will see a dynamically created Blitz name, for instance ‘Single Day Birding Blitz in Maine On 7/22/2020’.

5. tap the ‘New Blitz Button’ and choose the appropriate time and area from the cascading popup menus.

6. Birding Blitz contests can cover a county, a state, the United States, Canada or both.

7. When you and your friends or family decide to have a Birding Blitz competition .

8. Tap 'New Blitz' to define your Birding Blitz and then 'Open Blitz' to begin competing.

9. A Blitz can run for an hour, multi-hour, day, multi-day, month or even a 'Big Year'.

10. Feel free to change it to something more meaningful to you: ‘Whitaker Maine Vacation Birding Blitz’ .

11. Each species is assigned a point value based upon its rarity in that location and time of the year.