Observed arrival · 2026-10-29
HeardABird turns bird walks into mapped workouts
A photographer’s forthcoming iPhone and Apple Watch app is designed to identify birds by song, map sightings, and log walks to Apple Health.
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- Birders who want walks recorded as workouts
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- The page says only birds a user has actually seen can be shared with others.
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The page gives a step-by-step account of listening, mapping, sharing, and collecting sightings, and distinguishes walking workouts from a sit-and-listen mode. Its creator links the project to his own walks in Frick Park and says bird descriptions come from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA. The app is presented as forthcoming, with a beta-program signup visible; the described features are not independently verified here.
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