Birdeez Blog » Venture Beat http://www.getbirdeez.com/blog The official blog of the Birdeez Team Tue, 01 Apr 2014 18:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Today, birdwatching. Tomorrow, saving the entire planet! – Venture Beat http://www.getbirdeez.com/blog/2012/10/04/today-birdwatching-tomorrow-saving-the-entire-planet-venture-beat/ http://www.getbirdeez.com/blog/2012/10/04/today-birdwatching-tomorrow-saving-the-entire-planet-venture-beat/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:30:27 +0000 http://www.getbirdeez.com/blog/?p=112 Continue reading →]]> VentureBeatlogoWe felt very honored to be chosen as one of the 77 companies to launch at DEMO Fall 2012 by Venture Beat. Their coverage was really great, and it was awesome to learn that Executive Editor Dylan Tweney is himself a beginning birdwatcher!

The U.S. has an estimated 48 million birdwatchers, but 74 percent can’t identify more than 20 birds.

I’d fall in that category: I could point out a red-tailed hawk, a turkey vulture, a crow, and … a bunch of little brown birds. But with 900+ species in the country, I know I’m missing a lot.

Fortunately, there’s an app for that.

Birdeez is an iPhone app that makes it “ridiculously easy,” in the words of cofounder Jeff Simeon, to identify birds and then share your sightings on Twitter. I can only imagine that if the geeky Jack Black character in “The Big Year” had this app, he’d have powered to the top of the rankings much faster than that annoying Owen Wilson character.

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