[carlcoryell]

Carl here (one of the engineers who worked on birdseye),

The web interface to eBird isn't very usable, especially if you want to know what birds are near by and where to go see particular birds. It is however the best repository of bird observation data in North America and we are thrilled to contribute to it.

This release just reads from the eBird database. Our next release will also allow contributions to the database. This will make BirdsEye a great front end for eBird. It's much easier to record observations in the field on a device with GPS etc than to remember everything until you get home.

Right now, eBird is getting over 1 million observations per month and we're hoping that BirdsEye will double or triple that.

[mechanical_fish]

This is great news. And I wouldn't be surprised if "double or triple" ends up being an underestimate. ;)