Bird Buddy Pro Review: All Birds, No Bother

The home page consists of a list of “postcards” taken by the camera. Each postcard allows you to scroll through multiple high-quality photos and a video with sound, which ranges in length from a few seconds to up to two minutes depending on what a bird might be doing. Sometimes the algorithm might also decide to send a video in slow-motion, but that only happened once, when a Steller's jay spent an inordinate amount of time rummaging for a sunflower seed. The AI identification runs along the top (I've found it to only be wrong occasionally, but my yard doesn't get an especially huge variety of birds), and the postcard's bottom has options to send, save, or edit, along with the occasional fact about the identified bird. The app sends a recap of the end of each day including the number of visits and number of different birds. There's also a tab for a collection of your favorite saved photos, as well as a live-view button and “BB TV,” which shows select clips from other Bird Buddy users ... Read full article.