Who’s That Feathered Friend?

Who’s That Feathered Friend? is a free iOS app (iOS version 18 or later) that identifies birds from photos. Given a photo of a bird, or a flock of birds, it will try to identify the species as precisely as it can. If it can only reliably tell you a genus or family instead of species, it will do that instead, and tell you the most likely species. It is built on BioCLIP 2 with a fair amount of custom pieces.

It runs entirely offline on your phone, and never shares your photos or data with anyone.

Classify screen: a Yellow-crowned Night Heron boxed in the photo, named as 99% likely, located in Florida from the photo's GPS Classify screen: a Eurasian Magpie in flight, 99% likely with the location and 73% without, located in Madrid from the photo's GPS Classify screen: a flock against the sky with each bird boxed, answered as nine Common Swifts and two unidentified birds Classify screen: a Red-winged Blackbird, 97% likely, from a photo that carries no position Answer details for the night heron: likelihoods for species, genus and family, what it is perched on, and the setting About screen: what the app does, how its percentages are calibrated, and the location settings