News & updates

Birdey 1.3.5: Your week, your flock, and what comes next

This update gives your weekly review a new shape, makes trading easier to follow, and lets you choose how you spend time with Old Finch. There is also a little glimpse of what I’m working towards next.

Spend some time with Old Finch

• Choose the language of his stories and narration separately from the app and bird names
• Turn off his stories during hatching if you prefer to go straight to your new birds
• Fixed new birds opening with an English story and no narration despite another language being selected. Birdey now refreshes missing stories and audio before falling back

Look back at your week

• Swipe through your weekly review, with one part of your progress on each slide
• Revisit your answers, medal changes and up to three birds you improved at recognising
• See your weekly egg hatches alongside your learning progress as the new records build up
• Your profile brings its statistics together in one compact row, including eggs hatched

A glimpse of what comes next

• Open a new roadmap from Home and explore seven animated slides
• Take a look at plans for new illustrations, a dedicated bird-song mode, future events and more
• Milestones can be updated as the work moves forward

Trade with the flock

• Clearer steps take you from choosing a friend to reviewing what you give and receive
• See the feather price before the final review
• A countdown shows when your daily Marketplace allowance becomes available again
• Trade messages explain when your friend is the one missing a token

Keep your friends close

• Pin friends to the top of your list and find them first when starting a trade
• See who already has Birdey+ when choosing a gift recipient

The small stuff

• Hatch and Dupes controls stay clear of the bottom navigation on smaller phones
• Weekly reports can scroll fully into view
• Announcement banners wait until hatching finishes, keeping your new bird a surprise
• Support threads show the latest message and read status correctly
• Startup fixes preserve local data during temporary errors and improve membership verification on iPhone
• Latvian and Estonian are now available for bird names

Happy spotting
Anders

🌱 What’s ahead for Birdey

There’s more on the way. Here’s what I’m working towards, with a few nearer plans and some longer-term wishes.

🎨 More bird art, every day

The goal is 1–3 new bird illustrations a day. Until Birdey can fund an illustrator for all of them, new images will be AI-generated.

🎵 Sound-only mode · planned for mid-October

Learn to recognise birds by their voices. The aim is to add recordings for every bird currently in Birdey, wherever I can find suitable recordings with a licence that allows their use.

🐦 First illustrator batch · expected in November

The first batch is planned to arrive with an event, bringing 6 species across 21 cards.

Those cards include female, juvenile and other variants, giving you more of each species to learn and recognise.

📚 Complete from day one

This batch is a first taste of the future of Birdey’s bird content: illustrated species released in batches, with all their variants and Pop Quizzes ready from the start.

As Birdey’s budget grows, more complete batches can be made by the illustrator.

🎮 New ways to play

I have ideas for new game modes that offer a fun break from normal practice. A few secrets for now 🤫

✨ More ways to make Birdey yours

Further ahead, I’d love to add:

• 🖼️ New icons and avatars
• 🏷️ More titles and frames
• 🃏 More card variants
• 🧬 More mutations
• 🌟 More EX cards

These longer-term plans don’t have fixed dates yet. The October and November windows are targets, and I’ll share updates as things come together.

Happy spotting 🦅
Anders

Birdey 1.3.4

This update makes it easier to move between your rounds, eggs and collection, adds a new way to see what you’re learning, and gives Old Finch a voice.

Find your way around

• Home, Shop, Play, Hatch and Birdex now have their own tabs
• Eggs and Dupes share the Hatch tab, with your nest close at hand
• Open your profile from your avatar and reach your friends from the top bar
• League and leaderboards are together under Competition, which remembers your selection
• Home highlights your nest when eggs are ready to collect or you have a spare card to place in an empty nest
• Collect ready nest eggs directly from Home

See what you’re learning

• A new personal report arrives each Monday, showing how your bird knowledge changed during the week
• Compare your answers with the previous week, see medal changes and revisit birds you’ve improved at recognising
• Reports cover bird recognition, Latin names, lookalike quizzes and bird songs
• Your profile keeps up to 12 completed weeks of reports as your history grows

Spend some time with Old Finch

• Old Finch’s stories have been rewritten across all 13 languages, with a warmer, quieter voice
• Listen to his stories when you hatch a new bird, receive one through a trade or visit its Birdex page
• Replay a story whenever you like, or mute narration and let Birdey remember your choice
• Downloaded stories stay on your device for another listen offline
• Bird songs keep their own speaker button, separate from Finch’s narration

Trade with the flock

• Open public card requests from Birdex and find requests you can fulfil with your spare cards
• Start a trade directly with a friend
• Offer cards or feathers, and answer an offer with a counteroffer
• Cards you’re missing appear first when choosing what you’d like to receive
• Clearer payment and token information helps you see what each exchange needs
• New animations follow your cards as they change hands, with a receipt showing what you received
• Fixes keep reserved tokens, feather payments and refunds consistent through counteroffers

A clearer daily routine

• Daily quests have a simpler layout with clear progress and rewards
• Completed quests fold down to leave more room for the ones you’re still working on
• Claiming eggs or feathers sends them into your balance
• Your extra request ticket unfolds when you claim the third quest
• Reroll and daily feather details are still available within the quest card

Little things with more life

• New illustrated icons bring eggs, feathers, trades, gifts and other familiar parts of Birdey together
• Birdex cards slide in the direction you browse
• Completed bird families get a small glow, and saved showcase cards receive a foil shimmer
• Spare cards gather into an egg when you upgrade them
• Small rings around the speaker show when a bird song is playing
• League and leaderboard winners share a refreshed podium
• After a round with eight or more passes, Finch offers a small feather-and-nest puzzle before your results

Gifts and protected habitat

• Gift bundles show their extra egg bonus more clearly
• Gifting Birdey+ and the gift leaderboard now sit together
• Earlier gift givers are included on the podium
• A new World Land Trust certificate has been added to the certificate collection

A smoother experience

• The welcome scene appears while Birdey gets ready in the background
• Loading handles slow image downloads and interrupted journeys more reliably
• Notifications take you to the right place and wait until a hatch reveal finishes
• An interrupted login during hatching no longer leaves navigation locked
• Your profile’s country filter remembers your choice
• Hatch collection progress can reach completion without requiring unowned EX or mutation cards
• Monthly and weekly competitions count League Points consistently beyond your first ten rounds of the day
• Tutorials have updated images and explanations for the new layout, trading, upgrades and Finch’s audio controls

Happy spotting
Anders

A kinder, more meaningful Birdey

Thank you for sharing your feedback with me. I have heard your concerns about birds arriving too quickly, duplicate birds feeling unimportant, trading, feeders, and the early game feeling overwhelming.

I have made several changes to make progress calmer, fairer, and more meaningful.

New birds should feel special

Some players were getting many new birds very quickly, especially at the beginning. If you hatched 100 birds and received 50 new ones, each new bird could start to feel less exciting.

At the other end, players with a very high collection could hatch 100 eggs and receive only duplicate birds. That could make progress feel impossible.

I have changed the collection curve:

• New players will now discover new birds at a gentler pace
• Players near the end of their collection now have a better chance of finding a new bird
• Getting a new bird should feel more meaningful at every stage of the game
• Old Finch now appears when you receive a new bird, so every new discovery has a little more personality

The goal is quality over quantity. I want new birds to feel exciting, not lost in a huge pile of rewards.

Duplicate birds now have more value

Duplicate birds did not feel very exciting before. I have been working to give them a bigger purpose.

You can now use duplicates to:

• Buy higher-rarity eggs
• Put duplicates into nests to earn eggs
• Support other players through trading

This means that a duplicate is no longer simply a bird you already have. It can help your collection grow in other ways.

Trading has been changed to help everyone

Some players with a very high collection were receiving trades where they gave away a card and received another card they already owned. This did not help them reach 100% collection.

Requests and trades now also require feathers. This means that players who help others can earn feathers for their own progress.

Feathers can then be used to get eggs and continue working towards a complete collection.

You can also earn one extra trading token each day through gameplay. This helps make trading more connected to playing Birdey.

For newer players, getting several new cards every day now requires both feathers and tokens. Trading should help your progress, but playing the game should still be an important part of that progress.

A gentler start for new players

Previously, many egg rewards were given to every player in the same way. This could feel fine for players with a large collection, but it could be overwhelming for someone who had just started.

I have changed this so more eggs and feathers are earned through gameplay instead of being given automatically from many different places.

Many rewards are now bonus eggs, which means they are extra rewards connected to playing the game.

I have also made feeder rewards more personal while keeping their community benefits.

The minimum egg purchase is now 800 feathers. This gives new players time to learn the game before receiving a very large number of eggs.

Feeders now cost more to fill, but there are new ways to earn feathers by playing:

• Free players can earn up to 400 feathers each day by correctly answering birds they have not already received a feather reward for that day
• Subscribers can earn up to 800 feathers each day in the same way
• Each bird can reward feathers only once per day, until the daily cap is reached

This means that learning birds and playing the game can directly help you keep your feeders going.

A softer hatch size progression

I have also changed the hatch sizes to make the early game feel less intense:

• Everyone starts with x30 unlocked
• x100 unlocks at 30% collection complete
• x300 unlocks at 98% collection complete

This should make the beginning of the game easier to understand while still giving experienced collectors bigger goals to work towards.

Thank you for being honest with me, and thank you for helping me make Birdey better. I know these changes are important, and I hope they make every new bird, every duplicate, and every step towards 100% collection feel more rewarding.

Happy spotting. 🦅

Ask for the bird you are missing

This is the biggest update Birdey has had. You can ask a friend for one bird you have been hunting. The whole flock can start a Feeding Frenzy together. The hatch button tells you when you are ready for new birds. And your phone gets one quiet message a day from us, not a stream of them.

Card requests

• Pick a card you are missing and ask your friends for it. You set some feathers aside for it, and the first friend who sends you a spare gets those feathers.
• You can have up to three requests open at once, and each one runs for three days. If nobody helps in time, your feathers come back to you.
• You get one new request token a day. When it is used, the board tells you how long until the next one.
• Your requests hang on a cork board, like the one in a bird hide: big cards, a pin, and a paper note with the name and the time left. Tap one to see it full size and tilt it.
• Open a friend's board to see what they are hoping for and send them a spare. A bird you receive is in your Birdex straight away, and Old Finch introduces it once you are back on Home.
• Card requests replace trading. Old trade offers no longer show up under the bell.

Feeding Frenzy

• The flock can start a Feeding Frenzy together, and every seed pack or gifted month keeps the party going a little longer.
• During a Frenzy, rounds give 30% more eggs, and eggs get a better jackpot chance and a better chance at something rare.
• You will see it everywhere. The sky turns deep purple with stars and flocks flying across it, the top bar glows purple, and the cherry blossoms turn into slowly spinning confetti. When the Frenzy ends, everything goes back to normal right on time.
• In the Shop, a slim purple bar shows the time left. Tap it to see the 20 biggest seed givers, with your own row highlighted.
• A live clock counts down to the next new bird, with a silhouette of its family as a hint.

Ready for new birds

• The hatch button tells you where you stand. Green means you are ready to find new birds. Orange shows how many more birds need a bronze medal first. Tap the line to see your own progress for that egg.
• New birds follow how well you know the birds from that egg's region. Know your European birds well and a Europe egg brings more new birds. Own nothing from the Americas yet and you are ready there straight away.
• Every round saves a few spots for birds you have not earned a medal on yet, so there is always a way to get ready.
• Big egg banks can now be hatched ×30, ×100 and ×300 as your collection grows. The quick duplicates come first and the new birds get the stage at the end.
• Every new bird gets its own moment with Old Finch. His story appears at reading pace, and Continue shows up when he is done.

Your spares, your nest, your feeders

• The Feather Shop is now called Dupes. Mark your extra cards, choose how many copies "Keep" should leave behind, and turn the rest into feathers.
• Your spares can lay eggs. Put a spare Vulnerable bird or rarer, or a mutation, in the Daily Nest and it lays eggs over several days. Your last copy of a bird is always kept.
• The Daily Nest shows which card is laying, with a small countdown that pauses while the nest is full.
• Egg Rush and Lucky are now your own feeders in the Shop. Fill one with 40 seeds, using feathers or seed packs, and collect your reward right away. There is no button to claim it.
• The Shop is tidied into three rooms: The flock, Feeders, and Birdey+ and gifts.

One message a day

• Birdey now sends at most one message a day, at 6 pm your time, and only when there is something to say. Your streak, a friend's gift and a friend request all fit in that one message.
• At night (10 pm to 8 am) Rare Bird Alerts, Feeding Frenzy and gifted months arrive silently. No sound, no buzz, no banner.
• Your day is your own. Your streak, streak shield, daily quests and request token reset at midnight where you live, not on a clock somewhere else. Nobody loses a streak because of the switch.
• Kids mode means no notifications at all.
• The bell sits in the same corner on all five main tabs. It now also tells you when a friend sends you feathers, when your World First share is approved, when a friend you invited joins Birdey+, and when someone fulfils your request.

Birdex and languages

• Sort your Birdex alphabetically by name or by Latin name. Sort by Latin and every genus sits together, with the Latin name under each card.
• Bird names can now follow your own country's Spanish: Argentina, Chile, Mexico and 13 more countries each have their own names. Spanish and Portuguese fold out by country in the language picker. On Automatic, you get your country's names by itself.
• The crow group is now "Crows, shrikes & vireos" and only holds the birds that really belong there. Lyrebirds, bowerbirds and a few others have moved to their proper groups. A player spotted this one.
• Easy, Hard and Latin now live in one Game mode menu on the hub, with a short explanation under each mode.
• Missed the seven days to share a World First? You can now share it from the bird's page in your Birdex, as long as your share has not been approved yet.
• All of your World Land Trust certificates are now in one gallery, newest first, with the acres and the date under each. It is in Settings under Legal and behind the IMPACT panel on your profile.
• Big numbers follow your language, so in French it reads 9 450 m², not 9,450 m².
• The page tutorials now use real screenshots from the app, so you can see exactly where things are.

Fixes

• The app no longer shuts down suddenly on some phones, including the Pixel 10 series and some Redmi and POCO models.
• The app no longer gets stuck on the loading spinner, a bird hatched on drop day no longer disappears from your Birdex, and an interrupted download is no longer treated as finished.
• Hatching is quick every time again, not just the first time.
• Easy rounds show a transparent version of a bird you own in transparent 1 time in 5, however many normal copies you also have.
• When you pick a card to request, the list shows the bird's real name instead of "Unknown Bird".
• Your name on your profile is shown at full size, and the cards on the Dupes screen keep their proper shape.
• The bonus egg breakdown on the round summary now sits to the left of the nest, where your thumb is not covering it.
• The mystery card's steel foil no longer shows a faint scratch across its text.
• Texts across all 13 languages now describe how things actually work.

The card that tells you nothing

On a hard round the card now keeps its secrets. While the countdown runs, the bird sits on a brushed steel frame with its rarity, its habitat, its wingspan, its card number and its world first all gone, and only the range map left to go on. The moment you have answered, it is the printed card again with everything back. The other half of 1.2.21 is the deck: a bird you have just added stops hiding from you.

The mystery round

• During the five second countdown a hard series bird is shown on the steel frame with everything that names it hidden. The range map is the one thing you still get, so the question is the bird, not the label.
• The steel belongs to the round now, not to the card. Everywhere else, in your Birdex, in a hatch, in the shop and in a trade, your hard series birds are ordinary printed cards again.
• The map reads properly on steel: the land the bird does not live on is inked dark, so the white range shape stands out instead of sinking into the frame.
• The frame is real foil. Question mark impressions fade in and out as the light moves across it, the symbols at the top catch the same reflections as the text panel, and the circles at the corners stay circles.

The deck knows what you have never seen

• A bird you have just added now turns up within a couple of rounds on average instead of hiding for dozens of them. It is still a shuffle, so you can be unlucky and wait a little longer. Everything else keeps its place: bronze, silver and gold birds come around exactly as often as before.
• Latin rounds ask for the species you have never typed. Until now a Latin round was picked by how well you knew the bird's common name, which made the binomial you had never written the least likely card in the deck.
• The game remembers when it last asked you about a bird, so a reinstall or a new phone no longer resets which birds it thinks you are rusty on.

Your rarest spares

• The one tap convert button on a hatch receipt can no longer melt Endangered, Critically Endangered or Extinct in the Wild spares. Those only leave your collection through the Feather Shop.
• Converting a Vulnerable bird or rarer now stops you with a warning that spells out exactly what is about to go, rank by rank, and what each one is worth.

Card symbols

• The seven symbols on a card are redrawn in warm brass with clear cream silhouettes: one large wing for wingspan, a pacifier for juvenile, and the sex and world first badges to match.

Fixes

• One odd value in your synced mastery data can no longer take every medal on the phone with it.
• A European field trip no longer serves Siberian and Greenland birds, and no longer serves American strays that only one country has ever really logged. No real European bird left with them.
• On a tablet or an unfolded phone the bonus egg breakdown on the round summary sits above the nest instead of half off the side of the screen.
• The way out of a bird song quiz reads properly in every language again.

A screen that finally fits

This one is about the screen you actually hold. Birdey lays itself out for a tablet or an unfolded phone instead of stretching, there is a Large text switch for anyone who wants bigger type, and a new birder starts with birds from their own part of the world.

Tablets and foldables

• An unfolded phone or a tablet runs in landscape with two panels: the Birdex grid beside the card, the league beside your friends, the Feather Shop beside the card you are inspecting, and the habitat art beside the PLAY panel.
• A round uses the whole width, with the card on one side and the choices on the other. The summary lays all ten cards out at once, and a hatch gives the bird full height with the claim button beside it.
• Home, the shop and your profile deal their cards into two columns, and a card you open from a profile stands at full height with its details beside it.
• Nothing is stretched or blown up to fill the space. On a normal phone Birdey is exactly as it was.

Large text

• A new Large text switch under Settings, Accessibility. Every screen was rebuilt to hold it, so the bigger type never ends up fighting the layout.
• Cards keep their full size. Old Finch, the Latin name and the teacher's notes move to a second page under the card, with a small hopping arrow to tell you it is there.
• Settings is now split into sections you can scan: Display, Accessibility, Sound & haptics, Language & region, Notifications, Family & privacy.

Birds from where you live

• A new birder now starts with 30 common birds from their own continent instead of the same 30 for everybody, so the first round works wherever you are.
• The Game Hub opens on your continent rather than your country, so there is always a full deck to play. Narrow it to a country or a state from the same chip and that choice sticks.
• A bird you can see on its range map can now be spotted everywhere it lives. The birds that turn up in two or three regions sit in all of their eggs, not just one.

The round found its rhythm

• A pop quiz answers you where you answered it: the crop or the speaker you picked turns red if it was wrong and the right one turns green, both blink, and a won quiz throws a gold ×2 up into the POP QUIZ pill.
• NEXT CARD and Confirm are the same spot on every screen, bottom right where your thumb already is, and NEXT CARD charges up instead of counting down at you.
• The card slides away and the four choices land one by one. The countdown ring drains smoothly and races under your finger, with a hint about that the first three rounds.
• Ordinary right answers are lighter now, so a ×5 or ×10 combo and a new medal land bigger. A wrong answer loses the big red mark and the double thud.
• The type it yourself field grows an amber go button the moment what you wrote is a real bird, and says so when it is not.
• The summary shows up the instant the last card is answered and names the birds that earned a medal. When the nest has opened you can play again with the same settings, or go home.
• A medal you have just earned, or just won back, survives your first slip. The wrong answer right after reaching bronze, silver, gold or the Latin diamond costs that bird's bank nothing, so you get a chance to climb clear before a miss can take it away.

Friends and trades

• Your friend list holds 100 birders instead of 30, and it costs your phone less than the old 30 did.
• The trade partner list puts the friends you can actually trade with at the top: the ones who hold a card you lack and lack a card you hold.
• Friend feathers pay 2 feathers per friend to Birdey+ members and 1 on the free version, and every badge, button and message counts the same thing.

Small but important

• The season screen's next up card promises Birdey+ members the eggs their streak actually pays, not feathers.
• The streak shield no longer tells you that you missed a day you played, and the reminder that your shield can still save the streak now arrives on the day that is true.
• An announcement in the news popup can carry a link, with a Read more button that opens the patch note, the news page or the Discord invite in your browser.
• The World First share reward says plainly what it is for: getting Birdey in front of birders who do not play yet.
• A phone that fails Google's or Apple's device check is told "Device check failed" and why, instead of "Something went wrong".
• The World Firsts page reads properly in Chinese and Italian, and the Polish species count is a real Polish sentence.
• A few titles stopped truncating, and the question phase no longer overflows on a small phone when a song button is showing.

The month you can give away

Birdey+ is now something you can hand to somebody else. A month to a birder you know by name, or a pack of months that goes out to birders on the free version.

Give Birdey+ away

• Send one month to a birder you look up by name, or buy a pack of 10, 30 or 50 months that goes out to free players.
• Every gifted month thanks you with 100 eggs and protects another 10 m² of real habitat.
• The birder who receives one is told under the bell, with a gift to unwrap.
• When a gifted month runs out, that birder can take over the membership from the Shop, free week included if they never used it.

Trading, from offer to receipt

• A finished trade plays out in full: the cards cross, the one you received turns over in front of you, and a receipt stays on screen with both cards, who you traded with, and a way straight into its Birdex page.
• The trades list shows both cards on every open offer, puts what is waiting on you above what is waiting on a friend, and keeps the ones you have already finished.

Your friend list

• Every friend row carries a last seen line, from "Active today" to "Active 2 weeks ago". Days only, never a clock time.
• You can withdraw a request that never got an answer, so it stops holding one of your 30 slots. Friend Requests splits into Received and Sent.

Spares in one tap

• "Keep 3" in the Feather Shop trims every deep stack at once: three of each card stay, the rest are selected and ready to convert.
• Converting spares lives in the Feather Shop alone. The card page hands you there with its feather pill and keeps the room for the card.

Hatching and EX cards

• A big hatch builds a board you can follow: copies of the same card hatch together, while new and rare birds keep their full reveal. Eggs have tighter shadows, badges clear the arrows, and reveals end cleanly with reduced motion on.
• EX badges, letters and habitat symbols share the frame's own rainbow light on an ocean-blue base, and the stars flicker as the card tilts.

Small but important

• "Can't listen right now" in the song quiz turns song quizzes off for the rest of your play session. Close the app and they are back, and Settings holds the permanent switch.
• World First and feeder messages read better in French, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and Spanish, and Old Finch's German story for the Dollarbird uses the natural word for birdsong.

Trading between friends

• Offer a spare to a friend straight from your friend list, from a card's own page, or from a bird you are still missing in the Birdex. Your friend sees the offer under the bell and can accept, decline, or counter once with a different card.
• The rules are simple: one spare for one spare of the same rarity, a mutation only for another mutation, and you must already own the normal card of a bird before a variant of it can come your way. The card you trade away has to be a true spare, so your collection never loses a bird.
• Three trades a day, one open trade per friend at a time, and an offer nobody answers expires after a day.
• When a trade lands, both cards cross the screen in a small ceremony before the new one settles into your Birdex. A traded card never carries a World First, that stays with whoever spotted it first.

A new bottom edge on every card

• The bottom-left corner of a card is now a column of three round badges: the bird's sex next to the card id, a double arrow with its wingspan in centimetres, and a gold crown with the name of the first player in the world to spot it. A crown on its own means nobody has, yet.
• Open a card in the Birdex and tap the discoverer's name, and that player's profile opens.
• The copyright line moved down onto the frame's bottom band, and a card drawn by a real illustrator carries their name there too.
• Card text no longer follows your phone's text-size setting. A card is a card, the same size everywhere.

Feeders count fills, not clocks

• A filled Egg Rush feeder banks bonus eggs for you instead of starting a timer. They pay out on top of your round chests until they are gone, so nothing is lost if you cannot play right then.
• Lucky charges never expire any more. The hub chips say what you have left, "20 bonus eggs" or "12 lucky hatches", with no countdown in sight.
• One Claim button collects every fill of the last 24 hours in one go, and the Shop feeder cards show which fill of the day is open and what it pays.
• Feeders are open on weekends now, and seeds you drop in on Saturday and Sunday already count toward next week's Sunday event. The Sunday card shows what is banked for next week under this week's bar.

The roadmap runs on real numbers

• The Roadmap card on the season screen now climbs on Birdey's actual monthly subscription income: first toward covering the running costs, then toward hiring a full-time illustrator.
• Every step above the costs goal funds one more bird drawn by a real illustrator next month, at most 30 a month, and the card counts them as they are earned.

Small but important

• The song quiz has a "Can't listen right now" button, for the train and the waiting room. The quiz is dropped, the card keeps its full XP, and nothing is held against you.
• You can see how a pop quiz went: the KORREKT banner shows a gold question mark with x2 when you won it, and a red exclamation mark when you lost, and the round summary marks the same on the card's tile.
• Easy practice is mostly normal cards again. A bird you own in both versions shows its normal art eight times in ten and its transparent art twice, where it had quietly been the other way round. Hard is untouched.
• The habitat ladder shows its new rewards on the milestone pins, ten times what they used to pay.
• The invite screen no longer shows a cap of ten rewarded friends, because there is none.
• Grown-up players are asked once, right after the Terms, whether Birdey may share install and purchase signals with Meta so its ads find the right people. A new "Ad measurement" switch in Settings changes the answer at any time, and Kids Mode accounts are never asked and never included.

Fixes

• Reinstall the app or sign in on a new phone, and the Birdex shows your real medals straight away instead of an old snapshot.
• The Birdex grid scrolls without the tiny horizontal ripples that crept across a card on fast screens. Every frame is the same card, just moved.
• Leaving a screen in the middle of a save no longer trips the app: picking a showcase card, finishing onboarding, buying Birdey+ from the sheet and answering a card all survive it.
• A freshly hatched mutation card no longer flashes an empty background while its art is still on the way.
• The gift-claim dialog stopped asking for a thank-you message that was never sent. It simply claims the gift.
• The download is about 6 MB lighter. The three music tracks are mono now, which is all a phone speaker ever played anyway.

The medals you can finally see

The medal on a bird used to be a hidden number that only showed up when you had earned it. Now every bird has a bar, and you watch the metal being poured while you play. That is the heart of 1.2.15, and the pop quiz learned a new question on the way: which of these four songs is the bird you just spotted?

Medals you can watch fill

• Every bird has a bar now: a right answer takes it up, a wrong answer takes it down, and it keeps filling towards bronze, then silver, then gold.
• The medal you already own stands there in its own metal, and the next one is poured in from above and rises through it, so silver slowly fills with gold.
• A wrong answer costs one early on, and never more than five near the top, and that many right answers win it straight back. The old trap where two mistakes locked you out of gold for a hundred guesses is gone.
• A medal can be lost again, but only if you get the same bird wrong three times in a row.

Name that song

• The pop quiz can now ask for the bird's voice: four speakers, one of them is the bird you just spotted. Tap to hear it, tap another if you change your mind, confirm like any other answer.
• Win the quiz and the bird pays double XP and double medal progress, so it is two in the bank instead of one.
• Get it wrong and it costs the card nothing, but the bird comes back sooner with the same question until you have it.
• Kids mode gets pop quizzes too, and the skip button is gone.

A streak that survives a bad day

• Birdey+ members get their streak milestones paid in eggs instead of feathers, with the same numbers as before.
• Members also carry a shield that covers one missed day a week. It refills every Monday, and the app tells you the evening after a missed day that the streak can still be saved.
• Buying a lost streak back now costs 30 feathers.
• Birdey+ pays five times the eggs on daily quests, so an EX quest is 25 eggs instead of 5. Egg Rush no longer changes what a quest pays, so the reward is the same whenever you collect it.

Small but important

• Bulk hatching stops for what matters: on x10 and x100 every new bird and every foil card from VU up gets its full reveal, while the commons fly past.
• Win a World First and your name is on the card straight away, instead of up to a day later.
• Kids mode can no longer be switched off around the parent gate: the gear on the hub asks an adult first.
• The range map stops claiming that Californian birds also live in Alaska, and the Red-crowned Amazon finally shows Mexico, the only place it lives wild.
• Old Finch's read-aloud button follows your settings: turn reading aloud off and the speaker is gone. It has also stopped offering to read the Latin name tab out loud.
• Practice rounds fit on folding phones again, instead of pushing the answer buttons down under Pass and Confirm.
• New birds arrive in the Birdex with their own range map instead of the old globe placeholder.

Old Finch speaks your language

The old birder has been practicing. Every one of his 436 bird descriptions is now retold in all 13 of Birdey's languages: each paragraph was retold in that language's own words, so it still sounds like an old friend pointing a bird out to you instead of a word-for-word translation. That is the heart of 1.2.14, and he brought a whole classroom with him.

Old Finch, in your words

• All 436 bird descriptions retold in Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish and Chinese, alongside the English originals.
• A new read-aloud button on his panel reads the description out loud, with the right voice for your language.

Learn the field marks

• Old Finch has a new Field marks tab in the Birdex: exactly what to look for to know the species in the field, in your own language.
• Comparing two birds? The field marks come along, so you can see what actually separates the pair.

Two names on every bird

• Learning bird names in more than one language? Pick a second language in settings and the birds show both names, right above the Latin.

Spot a bad translation? Fix it

• A small translate icon now sits on the bird cards and on every big explainer in the app. See a translation that reads wrong, tap it, correct it, send it in.
• Approved fixes ship to every player in that language.

Inviting friends pays better

• The 10-friend cap is gone: every invited friend who keeps a 3-day streak pays 30 eggs, forever.
• The milestone ladder now climbs all the way to 50 friends, with jackpots at 20, 30 and 50 worth 600, 1,000 and 3,000 eggs.
• When a friend you invited goes Birdey+, you get 100 eggs as thanks.
• Sharing a World First now names the places to post, and the caption carries your invite code, so a world record can also recruit a friend.

Small but important

• An ALL button in the egg sheet spends every feather on eggs in one tap.
• The country list is sorted by the names you actually read: in French, Espagne now stands with the E's instead of where Spain would.
• The Latin name on the bird card is centered again.
• Fresh installs can no longer freeze out later card corrections.

Your name on the card

Spot a species before anyone else in the world and your name goes on its card the moment you claim it. That is the headline of 1.2.13, but the update also brings a daily star bonus on seed packs, a new audio engine, and a proper cleanup of the storage the app was wasting.

World First is now automatic

• No more sharing first: the first birder to claim a new species gets the crown instantly.
• Every day the game celebrates the newest World Firsts in a popup: the birds, the winners' names, and your own name front and center if you are on the list.
• Won a World First? You can share it and earn 100 eggs once the share is approved.

A star on every seed pack

• The first contribution of each kind per day pays an egg bonus on the spot: a gold star on the pack shows what is waiting, and turns grey once collected.
• Feather donors are included: the first donated seed of the day pays eggs too, so every helper gets a thank-you, not just the top contributor.

A new audio engine

• Music and bird songs moved to a new engine, fixing the stutters some Android phones felt when sounds loaded.
• The app also stops hoarding storage: a bug copied the soundtrack to your phone on every launch, and some devices get as much as a gigabyte back.

Every language, properly

• The hatch ceremony now speaks all of Birdey's languages instead of defaulting to English.
• French and Portuguese no longer announce "1 new bird" when a batch had none.
• Country search in the Birdex understands country names in your own language.
• The report dialog and the credits screen are translated everywhere.

Small but important

• Rounds, hatches and purchases now always finish their bookkeeping, even if you leave the screen early.
• You can report an offensive player name from a profile, and the name screen itself now says no to names that break the rules.
• Members can follow their egg ladder on the membership card, with a countdown to the next reward.
• Faster startup and a smaller app.

Your birds, in your own language

If you play in Italian, Chinese or Portuguese, a lot of birds have been sitting there with an English name. Almost all of them have their real name now. Members also start earning eggs along the way, and the type-the-name rounds finally give you the same field notes as the rest of the game.

Bird names in your own language

• Bird names come from eBird, which only translates the species that live in that language's own part of the world. Everything else fell back to English, so an Italian player met a Bald Eagle instead of an Aquila di mare testabianca, and a Chinese player saw English on two cards out of three. The missing names are now filled in from the IOC World Bird List: Italian went from 43% English names down to under 1%, Chinese from 67% to none, Portuguese from 23% to under 1%. Thank you to Cristian Andreoli, who wrote in and asked why the Bald Eagle was not called Aquila.

Eggs for members

• Birdey+ now pays eggs as you go: 100 when your free trial starts, 300 on your first payment, and 1,000 on your first renewal. A yearly plan pays the whole ladder at once, 1,500 eggs the moment it starts.
• Every payout lands in your notifications with a note about what it was for, so nothing arrives without an explanation.

Field notes when you type the name

• Rounds where you type the bird's name yourself now show the big range map and the speaker with the bird's song, exactly like the multiple choice rounds do. They used to leave you with the leaf orb and nothing else.

The small stuff

• A new bird arriving from the feeder is announced with its name in your own language. Some players got English in the "added to the game" parade no matter what they played in. Spotted by the developer's sister.
• Rows in the filter menus line up along the right edge again. The species name and the tick circle used to sit a random distance from the edge on every row, worst in Italian. Reported by Lorthirk in Discord.
• The Filters button in the Birdex keeps its full size once your feather balance passes 1,000. The extra digit used to squeeze the label down to tiny text.

Happy spotting.

The birds found their voices

72 species now sing with real field recordings, on their card in the Birdex and in practice rounds. Hatching got a show of its own, friends trade daily feathers, the Birdex learned to compare birds side by side, and your own music keeps playing on Android.

Birds you can hear

• A Birdey speaker sits on the card's detail screen and plays the species' real song. 72 species have their voice so far, and more are on the way.
• In the multiple choice part of a practice round, the range map and the speaker both stay on screen after the bird is hidden. So you can still see where in the world it lives, and hear how it sounds.
• Every recording is credited: a new bird song section on the Credits screen lists every single recordist and licence, one line per species.

Hatching in one go

• x10 and x100 hatches are one ceremony now. The whole clutch sits in the nest, the ordinary eggs pop in an accelerating cascade onto a board that fills live, and a rare bird stops the entire show, rises out of the pile and hatches with the full reveal.
• Hatch everything you have: the row of hatch choices now ends at your own total, so with 47 eggs it says x47. The lucky egg got a x30, so the whole boost hatches in one sitting.
• Duplicates convert to feathers straight from the hatch receipt. One button with the numbers already on it, no trip through the Birdex.
• The quick opening toggle moved down beside the Buy eggs chip, where it can actually be found.

Daily feathers between friends

• One button sends 2 feathers to every friend on your list, and a golden Claim button collects everything your friends have sent you. The hub's friend button shows a badge when gifts are waiting.

Compare birds side by side

• Hold your finger on a spotted card in the Birdex, pick 2 or 3 birds, and see them next to each other: close-ups of exactly the feathers that separate lookalike species, real range maps, and all the numbers in one row.

The rest

• The World First counter on your profile opens now: a trophy list of every bird you were the very first in the world to spot, with the card, the name and the Latin name.
• Birdey no longer silences Spotify or your podcast on Android. Your audio keeps playing, and Birdey's own music can be turned off in Settings.
• You can sign up for news about the app, either in the new terms and privacy popup or with a Newsletter toggle in Settings.
• The app shows the welcome screen straight away on a cold start instead of hanging a few seconds on the splash logo. The session check runs behind a small loading bar on the screen itself.
• When several new birds land in the game at once, the ADDED TO THE GAME parade glides from card to card with no loading screen in between, and the bird, frame and background land as one card.
• Zooming into a card from the profile showcase no longer blinks the silver, gold or bronze frame away and back.
• Collections already hit by the ghost card bug repair themselves now, including for players who had it before the previous update.

Happy spotting.

Your collection stays where you put it

Two bugs could make Birdey forget what you had spotted: one on iPhone that downloaded your whole collection again after every update, and one that showed birds you had already spotted as missing. Both are fixed, and the second one repairs itself the next time you open the app.

A collection that stays put

• On iPhone, an app update meant sitting through "Preparing collection" while 500+ cards you already had came down again. The images stay on the phone now, so an update goes straight back into the game.
• Birds you had spotted could sit in the Birdex as grey ghost cards, and the feather shop would happily offer them back to you and then refuse the purchase. Restarting did nothing, clearing the cache did nothing. The app now notices when it is missing something and fetches the real answer instead of guessing. Anyone already affected is repaired on the next start, no reinstall needed.

Cards that look the way they should

• Mutation cards had a small spot where the colours boiled over into harsh magenta and black streaks. The glowing orb behind it never belonged on a card with an effect, so it is gone, and the shine is as restrained as the rest of the card.
• A mutation of a threatened bird wore the plain icons on top of its silver frame instead of its own. The icons follow the card's metal now, exactly like on a normal card.
• The rainbow on an EX card covers the whole card however you tilt it. Tip it far enough before and a corner could sit with no rainbow at all.

Quests you can actually finish

• Daily quests no longer send you into a habitat you cannot enter. A new player can only play the forest to begin with, and could still draw "go on a field trip in the desert", a quest that could not be started at all.
• "Earn 400 League Points in one round" was impossible: a flawless round pays exactly 325. The ladder is now 175, 220, 270 and 325, which is one dropped bird per step, so the top quest is the perfect round. Reported by Jammykat in Discord.

The small stuff

• The nest on the round summary writes the real number beside it when you win more eggs than it can hold, so a boosted round no longer looks like an ordinary one.
• Two birds showed two names on the answer button, as if the app could not decide which bird it was asking about. One name now, and the right one.
• If you are the top contributor at the feeder on a Sunday, the pick is a gold card at the top of Home instead of buried under the contributor list.

Happy spotting.

The filter you pick is the filter you get

Pick a country or a continent and the first round of the session stays inside it now. Short Hard-mode rounds keep their XP, and the daily quest that promised League Points has started counting them.

Rounds that stick to what you picked

• Pick Europe, or any country, and the very first round can no longer slip past the filter and hand you American birds. The round waits for your species list, and refuses to start rather than serve you a round that ignores your choice.
• A round can no longer start on fewer than 10 birds. Players with a small Hard-mode pool could get a round of one or two cards, play it honestly, and have the server reject it as too fast. The XP disappeared every time. It does not now.

World First is only offered when there is something to win

• The World First screen could appear on a card you had already claimed it on. You shared it publicly and got nothing back: no top 30 place, no pages, no crown. It is only offered on cards where there is still something to take.

The quest that promised League Points now counts them

• The daily "earn XP in one round" quest was counting a third XP number that is not shown anywhere in the app, so you could finish a 600 XP round and watch the quest stall at 350 of 400. Both XP quests now count League Points, the same number the summary screen shows and the League ranks you on, and the card says League Points too. Reported by Lorthirk in Discord.

The small stuff

• The feeder's Egg Rush is now x6 eggs for 15 minutes instead of x4 for 30. A shorter window, but a harder one.
• A mutation card keeps its rarity frame. The mutation effect used to eat the frame, so an Endangered mutation lost its silver.
• Browsing your collection with the arrows on a card shows the next card sharp straight away, instead of starting blurred and sharpening on the way.
• Sorting the Birdex by "recently spotted" shows the right dates for the 30 starter birds. They used to have no date at all and sat at the bottom.
• Fixed a crash when picking a country or US state right as the screen behind the picker closed.
• On iPhone, the update prompt sends you to the App Store instead of TestFlight.
• The World Land Trust donation certificate shows on birdey.gg and on the press page again. The file had never made it onto the server.
• A bird drop costs you one update instead of five. Birds are finished completely, image, card, story and Latin, before they land in the game, so nobody is stuck mid-round redownloading the catalogue over and over.
• Opening the app reads your mastery from one place instead of up to 358, so the start is quicker.
• The League board loads your group's standings from a 15 minute cache instead of rebuilding it on every open. Your own row is still live; only everyone else's XP can be up to a quarter of an hour old.

Happy spotting.

The sign-up wall is gone

You can open Birdey and start playing now without creating an account first. Create one later whenever you want your collection to follow you to another phone. And the dodo is in the game: an EX card with real depth to it, first in line at the New Bird Feeder.

Play before you sign up

• The account wall that used to sit at the front door is gone. Open Birdey and you're straight into a round, no sign-up needed. Create an account whenever you want your collection to follow you to another phone, and everything you've already spotted comes with you the moment you do.
• There's also a new choice for how bird images load: all up front, or one at a time as you need them, useful on a patchy connection.

The dodo has joined the flock

• The dodo is an EX card now, with real parallax depth: the bird and its background sit in separate layers, so the card shifts as you tilt it. It's first in line at the New Bird Feeder, so it'll be the next bird released when the community fills it. Old Finch has a story ready: the dodo is filed alongside the ostrich and the rest of the big flightless outliers, and he was, in fact, a pigeon. About twelve kilos of one, five times the heaviest pigeon alive today.

Ten more birds get their Hard mode

• Same bird, no background to guess from: Oriental Pied-Hornbill, Red Knot, Northern Lapwing, Common Pochard, Lesser White-fronted Goose, Long-tailed Duck, Black-legged Kittiwake, Imperial Eagle, Steppe Eagle and Northern Bald Ibis all got their Hard-mode twin.

Browse the Birdex without leaving a card

• Open a card in the Birdex and there's now an arrow on either side of it, going to the previous and next card in exactly the order your screen shows them, same filters, same sort. Suggested by Jammykat in Discord, and his dad.

Practice more than one family at a time

• You can now pick two or three bird families for a practice round instead of just one. A family where you'd only spotted five species used to have the rest of the round filled with random birds; now you can stack a couple of families together and get a round that's actually about them. Suggested by KingBadger87 in Discord.

Fold the groups you're not looking at

• Tap a family bar in the Birdex, Owls, Waterfowl, wherever, and its cards collapse, leaving a clean list of families and how many you're missing in each. Same for continents in the country filter. Birdey remembers what you folded shut, next time you open it.

Level board is back on the World Leaderboard

• It sits next to Collection, Emblems and Latin again. Turns out people were using it even after it looked like nobody was.

The small stuff

• Shared bird images are square again, 1080x1080, instead of cropped tall with the World First banner cut off at the sides.
• Buying a card with feathers no longer leaves the card screen stuck open after the purchase animation finishes.
• Picking "Europe" as a whole continent in the country filter now actually gives you European birds. It used to be mostly American.
• Birdex search now matches a bird's Latin name too, not just the name in your own language.
• Range maps match the real country filters now. The Northern Gannet, for one, was missing from its own map at the colony (Heligoland) that puts it in the Germany round.
• Old Finch's explanations after a wrong guess are back in your own language. Dutch, Italian and Polish players were quietly getting English for about half the birds.
• Daily quests refresh properly after a night in the background instead of loading forever.
• The rarity buttons in the Melt tab no longer run off the edge of small screens with large system text.
• Feather Shop filters work again, and now live in the same filter drawer as the Birdex.
• The World First explainer no longer implies you can only hold one at a time. You keep every card you're first to find, forever; the countdown is only how long until you can take the next one.
• Old Finch's Latin tab reads a name in the right order now: genus first, species after, same as the game does everywhere else.
• The Double XP pop quiz is one tap shorter. Confirm now doubles as continue, same as a regular guess.
• The League's climb animation plays once again instead of replaying every time you scroll away from your row and back, and it now plays when you land on 1st, 2nd or 3rd place too.
• Dragging a card to turn it now clears the arrows, bars and panel around it while you're holding it, and brings them back the instant you let go, instead of them sitting half on top of the card mid-turn.

Happy spotting.

Ninety-four countries to bird in

The country filter went from eighteen countries to ninety-four. Point the game at Turkey, Mexico, Greece, Morocco, Switzerland, South Korea or any of the others, and you get the birds you could really spot there.

Real lists, not everything ever recorded

• Each list is built from how often a bird is actually reported in that country, so the one American warbler that turned up in a Portuguese garden in 2011 is not sitting in your Portugal list pretending to be a local. Every one of the ninety-four holds at least a hundred of the birds in the game.
• The lists hold the country's full bird life, not only the species that have cards yet. When a new bird joins the game it appears under every country it belongs to, on its own.

Bird names in seven more languages

• Brazilian Portuguese, Mexican Spanish, Turkish, Czech, Romanian, Greek and Hungarian. You pick the language for bird names separately from the language of the app, so you can play in English and still learn the names you will hear in the field at home.

Two places that were on the wrong continent

• Portugal was filed under Africa, so picking Europe left it out. Trinidad and Tobago sat under North America, though the island is eleven kilometres off Venezuela and its birds are South American. Both are where they belong now.
• A bird released through the New Bird Feeder now arrives with its world map, its Latin name explained and its story from Old Finch, all from the first day instead of a few days later.

Happy spotting.

Now the cards know where the birds live

Every bird in the Birdex can now show you where in the world it actually lives, and the whole game can be pointed at a continent instead of at one country or the entire planet. And if you have been sitting on a pile of eggs, you can open a hundred of them in one go.

Hatch a hundred eggs at once

• There is a x100 next to x1, x3 and x10 now. Anything up to Vulnerable goes past in the quick hatch, and the moment an Endangered, Critically Endangered or Extinct bird is in the shell, everything slows down and plays out in full. A hundred eggs stays watchable, and the bird that deserves the wait still gets it.
• Those rare ones can no longer be tapped away by mistake either. Tapping through a big hatch used to mean the next tap landed on the next egg before it had even started rocking, so the one bird you wanted to see went by in a blink. The shell has to break first now.
• When the last egg is claimed, a x10 or x100 hands you the receipt: every bird that was new to you on one board, and you can tap any of them to open the card properly. Spare copies are counted on one line underneath, so the numbers add up to the eggs you spent.

A hatch you can walk away from

• Closing the app in the middle of a hatch used to cost you the eggs you had not watched yet. The birds are all yours the moment the eggs are spent now, so the reveals are only the show. Shut the app after three of a hundred and the other ninety-seven are still in your Birdex.

Old Finch finished the collection

• Every one of the 427 birds in the game now has a story from him, and an explanation of what its Latin name actually means. The last stretch included the sparrowhawk that stopped migrating because the same people who used to shoot him started filling feeders, and Melospiza lincolnii, named after the friend Audubon happened to bring along on the trip.

A world map on every card

• Open any bird in your Birdex and the card shows you its range. It is built from millions of observations that birders in the field reported to eBird and published through GBIF, so what you are looking at is where people have really seen it. The map for a bird you thought you knew can surprise you.

Birding by continent

• The country filter grew a step in the middle. Until now the choice was the entire world or one single country. Now you can aim the game at a whole continent: two weeks in South America, or just curious what Africa is holding, and it is one tap. Countries sit grouped under their continent in the picker too, so finding yours is quicker even if you never pick a continent at all.

Every square metre saved, in one place

• There is a board now for all the habitat saved since Birdey opened, not just the current month, so the whole flock's work is visible rather than the part of it that happened since the first. And the square metres you have helped protect now earn permanent titles. The old nature titles expired when the month turned over. These do not. What you saved, you keep.

You can see what is in the egg before you hatch it

• There is an Odds tab on the hatch screen now. Open it and you get every bird that egg can hatch and the real chance of each one, grouped by rarity, with the birds you have not found yet listed first. If the Sunday event is running or a Rare Bird Alert is boosting something, those are on the list too, with what they are actually worth. No more guessing why a forest egg handed you a seabird.

EX birds are hatch only now

• The rarest birds in the game have left the feather shop. An EX can only come out of an egg from now on, which is the same rule the mutations have lived by since July. Nothing else about them changed: same odds, same eggs, they are just not for sale any more.

The leaderboard competes on collections now

• The level board is gone. Nobody was really competing on levels. The World Leaderboard now ranks on how much of the whole catalogue you have spotted, shown as a completion ring, and equal collections are separated by level, which is all the old board ever measured anyway. It also means the board reopens every time new birds arrive: a drop pushes everyone's percentage back down, so the top is somewhere you have to keep getting to rather than somewhere you arrive.

The league counts the week you actually had

• The weekly league runs on League Points now instead of total XP. It measures this week and nothing else, so somebody who joined on Tuesday and had a brilliant few days can beat somebody who has been here since spring. The board was quietly rewarding seniority. Now it rewards the week.

The Birdex stops stuttering

• Card images are an eighth of the size they were, for the same picture. The scroll is smooth now, all the way down a full collection. It also means a much smaller download the first time you open the app and a good deal less of your data every time after, which matters when you are out in a field somewhere.

New birders hatch before they are let loose

• The tutorial used to point at your eggs and tell you that you could hatch one. Now it hands you the egg and waits. You watch your first bird come out of it before the game lets go of your hand.

Credit where it is due

• There is a page in Settings now for the work Birdey is built on. The bird names come from the eBird taxonomy maintained by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the same list Merlin uses, so a bird is called the same thing here as in the app you already know, in every language Birdey supports. How rare a bird is follows its real conservation status on the IUCN Red List, so a card's rarity is not a game balance decision, it is what the assessment says. And the new range maps come from GBIF.

The small stuff

• Friend requests are not silent any more. You get told when somebody sends you one, and when somebody accepts yours.
• The league's reward amounts on screen did not always match what the week's close actually paid out.
• The feedback panel after each guess was hard to read on the brighter tiers. Redone.
• The app could sit on the launch screen indefinitely on a weak connection instead of carrying on without the parts it could not reach.
• A round that never reached the server still showed you the XP, the level sweep and the PERFECT stamp. It is honest about it now, and it does not quietly lose your progress either.
• Buttons on the hatch screen could land on top of each other on some phones.
• A bird released by the New Bird Feeder shows its real range map the same day it arrives, instead of falling back to a region badge until the next update.
• Push notifications work again on a fresh install. A rule was quietly refusing the write that renews the address your phone is reached at.
• The app carries a lot less home at startup. It fetches a small index and then only the birds that actually changed, instead of the whole catalogue every time somebody wins a World First.

Happy spotting.

The flock releases the birds now

This one has been brewing across three builds. The short version: new birds no longer arrive by update, the flock releases them itself, and Birdey has started teaching the pairs that fool everyone.

The New Bird Feeder

• The old XP feeder retired, and the biggest feeder yet took its perch. When the flock fills the New Bird Feeder, a brand-new species is released into the game that very moment: the ticker goes gold, and within minutes everyone can hatch it, no app update needed. It refills up to three times a day on weekdays, so a good week can bring as many as fifteen new birds. Nobody knows which bird is inside until it lands, and the birder whose seed fills it gets the reveal.
• Away for a few days? When you come back, every bird released while you were gone slams in like a fresh card pull, one by one, under an ADDED TO THE GAME headline. Nothing slips past you.

The pop quiz: a chance at double XP

• Answer a tricky bird right and Birdey may pop a small bonus quiz: close-up crops of the exact body part that separates it from the birds everyone mixes it up with. Which legs belong to the Chiffchaff? Which head is the Rook's? Pick right and that bird pays double XP. Pick wrong and it costs nothing, you still get the one line that tells the two apart. It starts on a set of classic lookalikes, warblers, crows, tits, swallows, ducks and more, and new pairs will keep joining.

Practice one family at a time

• A new pill on the Play screen lets you aim your practice at a single bird family: owls, waders and gulls, warblers, whichever group you keep mixing up. The whole round drills inside the family you chose, and small families get topped up with your regular mix so a round is always ten birds.

The Lucky Egg is a real egg now

• While you have lucky hatches banked, a green-and-gold egg with a clover crest sits at the end of the hatch carousel, and hatching that egg is what spends a charge. Your other eggs stay normal, so you can keep farming a habitat without burning the boost. The odds got fairer too: each rarity has its own rank-up chance now, so lucky eggs stay exciting without flooding the top of the ladder.

Mutations and EX birds are wild now

• The strange color-shifted birds left the feather shop. The only way to meet a mutation now is to hatch it, at 1 in 10,000 per egg. EX birds left the shop too: never for sale, only hatched, at the same rarity as always. And if a mutation turns up in a practice round, it is always the last card, so a full combo meets it at peak multiplier.

Old Finch, fully moved in

• The old birder now covers all 409 birds in the collection with his field notes, and his panel in the Birdex grew a second tab where he explains what each bird's Latin name actually means. He is also the one who steps in after a wrong answer now. No more "AI Teacher", it is just him, in all 13 languages.

Two new halls of fame

• The World Leaderboard grew an Emblems board for the biggest medal collections, and a Latin board where the true bird nerds show how many birds they have mastered by scientific name. The Birdex can filter by your medals too, so your gold shelf is one tap away.

The small stuff

• Marathon days pay better: the daily XP taper never drops below half anymore.
• Rare Bird Alerts open twice a day now instead of around the clock, and Sundays stay clear for the flock's own event. When the ticker fires, it means something again.
• Write-the-name cards cap at three per round, so a round never turns into a spelling test.
• The friends list shows the same weekly XP as the league board, quest claims and card converts are instant, and a pile of small screen fixes rode along.

Happy spotting.

A feeder the whole flock fills

Birdey has mostly been a quiet thing you do on your own. This one is about doing it together. The big new thing is a feeder the whole flock fills, and once it is full, everyone gets the boost, not just the birders who chipped in.

Community Feeders

• Everyone feeds one shared feeder with seed, and the moment it fills, every player can claim the boost. There are three daily feeders: a day of double eggs, a day of double XP, or a day of lucky hatches that rank up in rarity. Everyone who fed it is cheered by name, and the claim card crowns whoever gave the most, so the birders who filled it get real credit.

The Sunday Rare Bird Event

• Every seed the flock feeds all week builds one shared pool, and the more everyone feeds it, the rarer the bird the top contributor gets to pick on a real pick-a-bird screen. Then all Sunday, everyone can go spot that same bird, with your 100th egg guaranteeing it if it has not turned up before then.

Inviting friends pays more now

• Friends you invite start with a bigger welcome: eggs when they join, and more once they have played a few days. You earn milestone bonuses for bringing a whole flock too, with rewards at 3, 5 and 10 active friends, up to a large egg jackpot for bringing ten. A new ladder on the invite screen shows the rung you are chasing next.

New birds and new ground

• Lots of new birds to spot, and three habitats, mountain, desert and ocean, are now fully playable, with new foil cards to chase.

Rarer rare birds

• Rarity was rebalanced, so rare and endangered birds are properly rare now. Hatching an endangered bird is a real event, the kind you screenshot, instead of a fortnightly shrug.

The small stuff

• You can turn a single duplicate into feathers instead of the whole stack, with a little minus and plus dial, in the Feather Shop or straight from a card's Birdex page.
• Claim a world first and the card you share already wears your name, the instant you win the crown.
• The Impact board is far easier to read now, a bright day sky over green land instead of the old washed-out block.
• Your Lucky boost shows on the hatch screen, so you can see how many rank-up hatches you have left as you crack eggs.
• The rare bird alert banner no longer cuts off long bird names.
• And it all runs a little smoother and steadier underneath.

Happy spotting.

En gammel fuglekigger er flyttet ind

Denne her samler tre ugers arbejde op, og det meste af det er vokset direkte ud af jeres fejlmeldinger og idéer. Den korte version: Birdex har fået en rigtig felthåndbogs knogler, latin-tilstanden er blevet den ægte vare, og der bor nu en gammel mand i appen, som ved ting.

Old Finch er her

• Tryk på en fugl, du har spottet, og Old Finch læner sig ind: et lille rundt portræt ved siden af kortet og ét kort afsnit med den ene mærkelige, sande ting om netop den fugl, fortalt som en veteran, der peger en fugl ud for en ven. 176 fugle har fået deres historie indtil videre, og der er flere på vej.

Birdex tænker i familier nu

• Slå den nye kontakt under filtrene til, og din samling sorterer sig selv i rigtige fuglefamilier, 24 af dem, fra ugler til vadefugle. Hver familie får et banner, der bliver siddende i toppen, mens du ruller, med sin silhuet og en levende spottet-tæller, og en smal række silhuetter langs kanten lader dig hoppe direkte til en familie.
• Hele toppen af Birdex er bygget om: et rigtigt søgefelt, en filterknap og din fjer-saldo i én slank række, med dine aktive filtre som små chips nedenunder.
• Nye sorteringer også: efter kortnummer, efter hvad du senest har spottet, eller efter hvad der trænger til øvelse.

Latin-tilstanden er den ægte vare nu

• Latin-øvelse er latin hele vejen: at skrive fuglens almindelige navn tæller ikke længere, og skriv-selv-runder optjenes på selve latin-sporet.
• Misser du et navn, sammenligner læreren ikke længere fjer. Den fortæller dig, hvad navnet faktisk betyder, og hvor de to navne skilles. Hver eneste fugl i spillet har nu en researchet forklaring med kilder på sit videnskabelige navn. Svarer du rigtigt, ser du hvad hele navnet betyder, præcis når du gerne vil vide det.

Vis dine fugle frem

• Hver fugl, du har spottet, kan nu deles direkte fra dele-pilen på dens kortside. World First-holdere beholder deres kronramme, top-30-findere deres stjerneramme.

Fem fugle, I har bedt om

• Mosehornugle, Stellers Havørn, Zebrafinke, Sortspætte og Sule er med i spillet, alle ønsket af betatestere. Havørnen og Zebrafinken er de første fugle fra Asien.

Ligaen viser din optur

• Klatrer du, mens du var væk, viser tavlen det nu: din række glider op forbi de fuglekiggere, du overhalede. En lille historik-knap afspiller sidste uges ceremoni, når du har lyst. Og fejlen, hvor en runde spillet lige efter midnat søndag kunne give ugens krone til den forkerte spiller, er rettet.

Mere stabil under fjerene

• Rettet det største nedbrud: baggrundsmusikken kunne i sjældne tilfælde tage hele appen med sig midt i et loop. Nu heler den stille sig selv og spiller videre.
• Hvis en klækning ikke bliver gemt, for eksempel på dårligt wifi, siger spillet det nu og stopper, og dit æg står urørt. Ikke flere fugle, der forsvinder i stilhed.
• At skrive en fugls navn tilgiver nu dit tastatur: accenter, krøllede apostroffer og dobbelte mellemrum gemmer ikke længere det rigtige svar.
• En opdatering afspiller ikke længere vejledninger, du allerede har lukket, og de gule "ny fugl"-prikker følger nu din egen konto, så på en delt telefon fejrer du kun dine egne fund.

De små ting

• Fuglenavne findes nu på russisk og ukrainsk, under Indstillinger.
• Profiler viser en stille "Har spillet siden"-linje.
• Indstillinger har fået en Join vores Discord-knap. Kig forbi.
• Sæsonskærmen viser køreplanen: hvor mange medlemmer der holder Birdey kørende, og hvad der låses op, når flere kommer til.
• Fjer-butikken sælger op til 10 fugle om ugen, med en tæller så du kan se, hvor du står, og månedens Top 50 betaler nu ud i æg.
• Videnskabelige navne står i kursiv under fuglens navn på klæk- og svarskærmen.
• At melde pas er stille nu. Intet rødt blink, intet dunk. At melde pas er ikke at fejle.

God spotting.

An old birder moved in

This note gathers up three weeks of work, and most of it grew straight out of your reports and ideas. The short version: the Birdex got a proper field guide's bones, Latin mode became the real thing, and there is an old man in the app now who knows things.

Old Finch is here

• Tap a bird you have spotted and Old Finch leans in: a small round portrait beside the card, and one short paragraph with the one strange, true thing about that bird, told the way a veteran points a bird out to a friend. 176 birds have their story so far, and more are on the way.

The Birdex thinks in families now

• Flip the new switch under the filters and your collection sorts itself into real bird families, 24 of them, from owls to waders. Each family gets a banner that sticks to the top while you scroll, with its silhouette and a live spotted counter, and a slim rail of silhouettes down the edge lets you jump straight to any family.
• The whole top of the Birdex was rebuilt: a real search field, a Filters button, and your feather balance in one slim row, with your active filters as small chips underneath.
• New sort options too: by card number, by what you spotted most recently, or by what needs practice.

Latin mode is the real thing now

• Latin practice is Latin all the way down: typing a bird's everyday name no longer counts, and type-it-yourself rounds are earned on the Latin track itself.
• Miss a name and the teacher no longer compares feathers. It tells you what the name actually means, and where the two names part ways. Every bird in the game now has a researched, sourced explanation of its scientific name. Get one right and you see what the whole name means, exactly when you want to know.

Show off your birds

• Every bird you have spotted can now be shared straight from the share arrow on its card page. World First holders keep their crown frame, top-30 finders their star frame.

Five birds you asked for

• The Short-eared Owl, Steller's Sea-Eagle, Zebra Finch, Black Woodpecker and Northern Gannet are in the game, all requested by beta testers. The Sea-Eagle and the Zebra Finch are the first birds from Asia.

The league shows your climb

• Climb while you were away and the board now shows it: your row slides up past the birders you overtook. A small history button replays last week's ceremony whenever you like. And the bug where a round played just past Sunday midnight could hand the weekly crown to the wrong player is fixed.

Steadier under the feathers

• Fixed the top crash: the background music could, rarely, take the whole app down mid-loop. It now quietly heals itself and plays on.
• If a hatch ever fails to save, on spotty wifi for instance, the game now says so and stops, and your egg stays untouched. No more silently lost birds.
• Typing a bird's name forgives your keyboard now: accents, curly apostrophes and stray double spaces no longer hide the right answer.
• Updating the app no longer replays tutorials you already dismissed, and the amber "new bird" dots are now tracked per account, so on a shared phone you only celebrate your own finds.

The small stuff

• Bird names now come in Russian and Ukrainian, under Settings.
• Profiles show a quiet "Playing since" line.
• Settings has a Join our Discord button. Come say hi.
• The season screen shows the roadmap: how many members keep Birdey going, and what unlocks as more join.
• The feather shop sells up to 10 birds a week, with a counter so you can see where you stand, and the monthly Top 50 pays out in eggs now.
• Scientific names sit in italics under the bird's name on the hatch and answer screens.
• Passing on a bird is quiet now. No red flash, no thud. Passing is not failing.

Happy spotting.

Fuglene holder deres egne tider nu

Et par rigtige nye ting denne gang. Den største er stille, men den ligger tæt på hjertet af det, Birdey handler om: fuglene dukker nu op, når de faktisk ville.

Ugler efter mørkets frembrud, og dagfuglene om dagen

• Fuglene holder nu de tider, de virkelig holder. Ugler, natravne, skovsnepper og nathejren dukker lidt oftere op fra dine æg efter mørkets frembrud, og dagfuglene får deres tur, mens solen er oppe. Det følger det samme ur, der skifter appens himmel mellem dag og nat, så det, du ser på hubben, matcher, hvilke fugle der rører på sig. Klækskærmen bærer nu et lille rundt vindue af den aktuelle himmel, en sol om dagen, en månesegl og stjerner om natten, så du altid ved, hvis tur det er. Tryk på den for en kort forklaring.

Øvelse der tester dig for alvor

• Når du først har tjent en medalje på en fugl, holder den op med at give dig fire kort at vælge imellem. Med jævne mellemrum beder den dig om selv at skrive fuglens navn, og skriver du det rigtigt, giver det dobbelt XP. Det dukker op første gang, du møder en fugl, du har fået medalje på, og kommer så igen i en rytme, som medaljen sætter. Børnetilstand viser det aldrig.

Find en ven på navn

• At tilføje en ven er en søgeboks nu, ikke et gættespil. Begynd at skrive et birdey-navn, og en levende liste af matchende spillere folder sig ud, hver med sin avatar og ramme, så du bare trykker på den rigtige. Folk, du allerede er venner med, viser et mærke, og dem du allerede har inviteret også, så du aldrig sender en dublet.

Daglige opgaver betaler i æg

• Hver daglig opgave betaler nu ud i æg, med op til 5 æg for de sjældneste, og de sjældne opgaver dukker oftere op end før. Den rede, du henter, viser endda det rigtige kuld, du er ved at samle, så en 4-ægs opgave sidder under en rede med 4 æg i.

En klarere første gennemgang

• Den første gennemgang peger nu med en tydelig grøn ring på hvert trin, ikke kun på "tryk her"-trinene, så du altid kan se, hvad guiden peger på. Medaljeforklaringen fortæller også sandheden om Diamanten: det er det fuglenørd-flex, du tjener ved at navngive en fugl på latin.

De små ting

• Første gang du ejer to versioner af den samme fugl, viser Birdex dig stille pilen, der skifter mellem dem, så du aldrig går glip af den.
• Det feltturs-land, du vælger på spilleskærmen, bliver nu husket mellem opstarter i stedet for at nulstille.
• Voucher-bogen viser nu dine nyeste vouchere øverst.
• Impact-ranglisten viser nu altid de præmier, man kan vinde, også de pladser ingen har taget endnu.
• Beskeder, når du tilføjer en ven, læser nu på dit eget sprog.
• Rettet et sjældent nedbrud, når man forlod voucher-bogen midt i en indløsning, og en spilleskærm, der kunne låse PLAY-knappen, mens der stod "Alle habitater".

God spotting.

The birds keep their own hours now

A handful of real new things this time. The biggest one is quiet, but it sits close to the heart of what Birdey is about: the birds now show up when they actually would.

Owls after dark, and the day birds by day

• Birds now keep the hours they really keep. Owls, nightjars, woodcock and the night heron turn up from your eggs a little more often after dark, and the daytime birds get their turn while the sun is up. It follows the same clock that turns the app's sky to day or night, so what you see on the hub matches which birds are stirring. The hatch screen wears a little round window of the current sky now, a sun by day, a crescent moon and stars at night, so you always know whose turn it is. Tap it for a one-line explainer.

Practice that tests you for real

• Once you have earned a medal on a bird, it stops handing you four cards to pick from. Every so often it asks you to type the bird's name yourself, and typing it right pays double XP. It shows up the first time you meet a bird you have medaled, then comes back on a rhythm set by that medal. Kids mode never shows it.

Find a friend by name

• Adding a friend is a search box now, not a guessing game. Start typing a birdey name and a live list of matching players drops down, each with their avatar and frame, so you just tap the right one. People you are already friends with show a tag, and the ones you have already invited too, so you never send a duplicate.

Daily quests pay in eggs

• Every daily quest pays out in eggs now, topping out at 5 eggs for the rarest, and the rare quests turn up more often than they used to. The nest you collect even shows the real clutch you are about to take, so a 4-egg quest sits under a nest with 4 eggs in it.

A clearer first walk-through

• The first-run tutorial points with a clear green ring on every step now, not just the "tap this" ones, so you can always see what the coach is pointing at. The medal explainer tells the truth about the Diamond too: it is the bird-nerd flex you earn by naming a bird in Latin.

The small stuff

• The first time you own two versions of the same bird, Birdex quietly shows you the arrow that flips between them, so you never miss it.
• The field-trip country you pick on the play screen now sticks between launches instead of resetting.
• The voucher book shows your newest vouchers at the top.
• The Impact leaderboard always shows the prizes up for grabs now, even the spots no one has taken yet.
• Add-friend messages now read in your own language.
• Fixed a rare crash when leaving the voucher book mid-claim, and a play screen that could lock the PLAY button while it said "All habitats".

Happy spotting.

Glattere, lettere, og en kort-zoom der endelig føles rigtig

Ingen nye fugle denne gang, bare en masse små ting gjort bedre. Den her handler om, at appen føles glattere og lettere i dine hænder.

At åbne et kort føles rigtigt nu

• At trykke på en fugl i din Birdex plejede at åbne med et lille hak, hvor kortets dele faldt på plads én ad gangen, indtil det satte sig. Nu zoomer det rent op som ét kort og bliver så skarpt til den version, du kan vippe, med en blød overgang.

Lettere for dit batteri

• Appen bliver nu helt stille, når intet bevæger sig. Den plejede at gentegne skærmen mange gange i sekundet, selv mens du sad stille på en menu, hvilket drænede batteriet og stjal glathed fra alt andet. Nu tegner den kun, når noget faktisk ændrer sig, og Birdex'en ruller glattere af den grund.

Finpudsning af klækskærmen

• Hvert æg sidder nu centreret på scenen med sine pile og sin tæller omkring sig. At swipe mellem habitater blinker ikke længere et almindeligt æg, før det rigtige er indlæst, og tælleren på hvert æg tæller nu kort, så den matcher Mystery-ægget og fortæller dig præcis, hvor mange du stadig kan klække.

De små ting

• En stribe tekst, der sad fast på engelsk, læser nu på dit eget sprog, på alle de sprog Birdey understøtter.
• Den bløde skygge under hvert Birdex-kort er tilbage, nu tegnet på en måde, der ikke koster din telefon noget, mens du ruller.

God spotting.

Smoother, lighter, and a card zoom that finally feels right

No new birds this time, just a lot of small things made better. This one is about the app feeling smoother and lighter in your hands.

Opening a card feels right now

• Tapping a bird in your Birdex used to open with a little stutter, the card's pieces snapping into place one at a time until it settled. Now it zooms open cleanly as one card, then sharpens into the tiltable version with a soft fade.

Lighter on your battery

• The app now goes properly quiet when nothing is moving. It used to keep redrawing the screen many times a second even while you sat still on a menu, which drained battery and stole smoothness from everything else. Now it draws only when something actually changes, and scrolling the Birdex is smoother for it.

Egg screen polish

• Each egg now sits centered on the stage with its arrows and counter around it. Swiping between habitats no longer flashes a plain egg before the real one loads, and the counter on every egg now counts cards, so it matches the Mystery egg and tells you exactly how many you can still hatch.

The small stuff

• A batch of text that was stuck in English now reads in your language, across every language Birdey supports.
• The soft shadow under each Birdex card is back, now drawn in a way that costs your phone nothing while you scroll.

Happy spotting.

Habitat-æg, en Mystery-æg og fuglenavne på latin

Den her handler om, hvor dine æg kommer fra, og en ny måde at teste dig selv på.

Vælg hvor dit æg kommer fra

• Klækstedet er et sted igen. Vælg en region (Amerika, Europa & Afrika, eller Asien & Oceanien) og et habitat (skov, vådområde, hav, græsland, by, bjerg eller ørken), og dit æg trækker fra de fugle, der rent faktisk lever der. En lille tæller på hvert æg viser, hvor mange af habitatets fugle du allerede har spottet, så du kan sigte dine klækninger mod dem, du mangler.

Æg der ligner deres habitat

• Hvert klæk-æg er nu sin egen illustration: et dybgrønt skov-æg med et skåret træ, et hav-æg med rullende bølger, gyldent græsland, skifergrå by, granitbjerg, soltørret ørken. Det rokker, mens det klækker, med sjældenhedslyset der siver ud gennem revnerne, og brister så i sine egne malede skår.

Et Mystery-æg

• For enden af karrusellen sidder et konfetti-spørgsmålstegn-æg, der klækker en helt tilfældig fugl fra hele Birdey. Dets tæller er hele din samling, så det er samtidig din samlede "fugle spottet"-fremgang.

Lær dine fugle på latin

• En ny tredje øvelses-chip, Let / Svær / Latin, skifter hvert navn i runden ud med det videnskabelige navn. Den giver dobbelt XP mod dit level, mens du spiller den, og hver fugl får sin egen diamant-medalje, når du kan navngive den på latin tredive gange i træk. Din samling er urørt: latin er et separat færdighedsspor, så du re-spotter aldrig en fugl ved at skifte til det.

Fugleture der viser de fugle, du faktisk ville se

• Landelisterne er bygget om ud fra, hvor ofte hver fugl reelt rapporteres, så de sjældne engangsgæster er væk. Og vælger du USA, dukker en delstats-chip op: skær din fugletur ned til Texas, Alaska, Puerto Rico, eller lad den stå på alle delstater.

De små ting

• Inviter en ven, og deres bonus-æg tilføjes nu af sig selv ved at matche den mail, de skrev sig op med, så ingen skal taste en kode.
• Spot en ultra-sjælden EX-fugl, og hele flokken fejrer det: alle får et gave-æg stemplet med dit navn, og at hente det sender et hurra tilbage til dig.
• De hurra, du har optjent, vises nu på din profil, for dig og for enhver, der besøger den.
• Knaptryk lyder i samme sekund, du rører dem, og det dobbelte kvidder på Næste er nede på ét.
• Et par "nedbrud", der aldrig rigtig var nedbrud, er stille lukket ned.

God spotting.

Habitat eggs, a Mystery egg and bird names in Latin

This one is about where your eggs come from, and a new way to test yourself.

Choose where your egg comes from

• The hatch screen is a place again. Pick a region (the Americas, Europe & Africa, or Asia & Oceania) and a habitat (forest, wetlands, ocean, grassland, urban, mountain or desert), and your egg draws from the birds that actually live there. A little counter on each egg shows how many of that habitat's birds you have already spotted, so you can aim your hatches at the ones you are still missing.

Eggs that look like their habitat

• Every hatch egg is now its own illustration: a deep-green forest egg with a carved tree, an ocean egg with rolling waves, golden grassland, slate urban, granite mountain, sun-baked desert. It rocks as it hatches with the rarity light leaking through the cracks, then shatters into its own painted shards.

A Mystery egg

• At the end of the carousel sits a confetti question-mark egg that hatches a completely random bird from anywhere in Birdey. Its counter is your whole collection, so it doubles as your overall "birds spotted" progress.

Learn your birds in Latin

• A new third practice chip, Easy / Hard / Latin, flips every name in the round to its scientific name. It pays double XP toward your level while you play it, and each bird earns its own diamond medal once you can name it in Latin thirty times in a row. Your collection is untouched: Latin is a separate skill track, so switching to it never re-spots a bird.

Field trips that show the birds you would actually see

• Country lists are rebuilt from how often each bird is really reported, so the one-in-a-lifetime vagrants are gone. And picking the US now shows a state chip: narrow your field trip to Texas, Alaska, Puerto Rico, or leave it on all states.

The small stuff

• Invite a friend and their bonus eggs now apply on their own, by matching the email they signed up with, so nobody has to type a code.
• Spot an ultra-rare EX bird and the whole flock celebrates: everyone gets a gift egg stamped with your name, and claiming it sends a cheer back to you.
• Cheers you have earned now show up on your profile, for you and for anyone visiting it.
• Button taps sound the instant you touch them, and the double chirp on Next is down to one.
• A couple of "crash" reports that were never really crashes are quietly silenced.

Happy spotting.

En stille en: notifikationer der når frem, og en app der kører glattere

Den her er stille.

Notifikationer der rent faktisk når frem

• Der var et problem med, at notifikationer nogle gange slet ikke dukkede op. Det skulle være rettet nu, hvis du har slået dem til. Oveni det vises et fuglenavn i en notifikation nu på dit eget sprog.

Glattere, overalt

• Birdey er flyttet over på en ny motor, den del der tegner hvert billede på din skærm. Foils, klækninger og de små animationer holder en mere stabil billedrate nu, og en visningsfejl, som nogle Android-telefoner havde på sæsonskærmen, skulle være væk nu. Er den ikke det, så rapportér fejlen via den indbyggede fejlrapport i indstillinger.

De små ting der stille var galt

• En håndfuld små fejl, væk. Links i Indstillinger (nyheder, Instagram, Facebook, privatliv, vilkår) åbner igen i stedet for ikke at gøre noget, når du trykker. At filtrere Birdex på ét habitat isolerer det hver gang nu, i stedet for at sætte sig fast, når du havde slået et par til. Det dobbelte fuglekvidder ved et rigtigt gæt er nede på ét. Impact-tavlen på dansk hedder nu "Reddet natur" i stedet for den gamle forvirrende tekst. Og et stort sprogløft finpudsede formuleringer på ALLE 13 sprog.

God spotting.

A quiet one: notifications that reach you, and a smoother app

This one is quiet.

Notifications that actually reach you

• there was a problem with notifications not appearing sometimes, that should be fixed now if you opted in for it. On top of that, when a notification mentions a bird it now shows up in your own language.

Smoother, everywhere

• Birdey moved to a new engine, the part that draws every frame on your screen. Foils, hatches and the little animations hold a steadier frame rate now, and a display glitch that some android phones had on the season screen should be gone now. if not please report the bug thru the ingame bug report in settings.

The small stuff that was quietly wrong

• A handful of little errors, gone. The Settings links (news, Instagram, Facebook, privacy, terms) open again instead of doing nothing when you tap them. Filtering the Birdex by a single habitat isolates it every time now, instead of getting stuck once you had toggled a few. The double bird chirp on a correct guess is down to a single one. The Danish impact board reads "Reddet natur" instead of the old confusing wording. And a large language polish pass tidied up phrasing across ALL 13 languages.

Happy spotting.

Æg-opdateringen: fra sider til æg, der klækker til fugle

Det mest forvirrende ord i Birdey er væk. "Sider" hedder nu æg, og æg gør det oplagte: de klækker til fugle. Din saldo er præcis den samme, bare en ny skal. Her er det nye.

En rede, der samler æg

• En Daglig Rede sidder nu på din forside og fyldes stille med æg over tid. Kom tilbage, tryk, og saml dem. Den rolige daglige grund til at åbne appen, og den siger nu til, når den er fuld.

Æg klækker til fugle

• Der ligger et nyt klækkested ét tryk under PLAY. Dine gemte æg sidder og trækker vejret, til du klækker dem: ægget rokker mere og mere, lys siver ud gennem revnerne i fuglens sjældenhedsfarve, skallen brister, og kortet rejser sig stort og skinnende. Almindelige fugle popper på et sekund, en uddød får dig til at vente næsten syv. Sidder du på en bunke, kan du klække hele stakken på én gang.

En ny måde at samle på

• Runde-belønninger, daglige quests og din rede deler nu ét lille ritual: en rede dukker op, og dine æg og fjer hopper ud ét ad gangen op i dine tællere med et fjedrende hop. Har du travlt, sender ét tryk det hele hjem på én gang.

For Birdey+ medlemmer

• Medlemmer får en større, frodigere rede med guldkant og et par blomster, der rummer ti æg i stedet for to og fyldes fem gange hurtigere. Du finder også fem gange flere æg, mens du spiller.

Mere fair for alle

• Svær tilstand og quest-omrulninger er nu gratis for alle. At abonnere handler om den større rede, flere æg, at beskytte rigtig natur og støtte en solo-udvikler, aldrig om at låse sværhedsgrad væk.

Supporters holder fest for hele flokken

• Når nogen støtter Birdey, får hver spiller en lille voucher-bog i hjørnet af forsiden. Ét tryk henter din gave og sender et hurra flyvende til supporterens navn. Motoren er klar nu; supporter-butikken, der fodrer den, er på vej.

Et pænt sprogløft, og en notifikations-rettelse

• Hele appen er gået efter i alle sprog, så teksten nu læser, som en indfødt havde skrevet den, ikke en maskine.
• Vi rettede en fejl, der kunne få notifikationer til slet ikke at dukke op. Var du en af dem, der aldrig hørte fra Birdey, så prøv igen.
• Æg klækker nu fugle fra hele verden, forsiden bærer den samme varme, døgn-skiftende topbjælke som resten af appen, og der er en stribe rettelser til små og zoomede skærme.

God spotting.

The Egg Update: pages became eggs, and eggs hatch into birds

The most confusing word in Birdey is gone. "Pages" are now eggs, and eggs do the obvious thing: they hatch into birds. Your balance is exactly the same, just a new shell. Here is what is new.

Your nest grows eggs

• A Daily Nest now sits on your home screen and quietly fills with eggs over time. Come back, tap it, and collect. It is the calm daily reason to open the app, and it now tells you when it is full.

Eggs hatch into birds

• There is a new hatching spot one tap under PLAY. Your saved eggs sit there breathing until you hatch them: the egg rocks harder and harder, light leaks through the cracks in the bird's rarity colour, the shell bursts, and the card rises out big and shining. Common birds pop in about a second, an Extinct one keeps you waiting nearly seven. Sitting on a hoard? Hatch a whole pile at once.

A new way to claim

• Round rewards, daily quests and your nest now share one little ritual: a nest appears and your eggs and feathers leap out one by one, arcing up into your counters with a springy bounce. In a hurry, one tap sends everything home at once.

For Birdey+ members

• Members get a bigger, lusher nest with a golden rim and a few blossoms, holding a full clutch of ten eggs instead of two, and it fills five times faster. You also find five times more eggs as you play.

Fairer for everyone

• Hard mode and daily quest rerolls are now free for every player. Subscribing is about the bigger nest, more eggs, protecting real habitat and supporting a solo developer, never about locking away difficulty.

Supporters throw parties for the whole flock

• When someone supports Birdey, every player gets a little voucher book in the corner of the home screen. One tap claims your gift and sends a cheer flying to the supporter's name. The engine is ready now; the supporter store that feeds it is coming soon.

A language polish, and a notification fix

• Every language got a proper going-over, so the text now reads like a native wrote it, not a machine.
• We fixed a bug that could stop notifications from showing up at all. If you never heard from Birdey, give it another try.
• Eggs now hatch birds from all around the world, the home screen wears the same warm day-to-night top bar as the rest of the app, and there is a pile of fixes for small and zoomed screens.

Happy spotting.

Notifikationer med fugleklang, en Birdex der styrer økonomien og PERFECT-runder

Build 48 er opdateringen hvor Birdey lærte at banke pænt på. Notifikationer ligner endelig Birdey og lander dig det rigtige sted når du trykker, hele kort-økonomien er flyttet hjem i din Birdex, ligaerne er blevet rene færdighedsræs, og der ligger et nyt lag af øjeblikke over hele spillet: level-ups der fejres, PERFECT-stempler, gaver der skal pakkes op, og en app der føles hurtigere overalt.

Notifikationer, der endelig ligner Birdey

• En fugl i statusbaren. Birdey-notifikationer på Android viser nu en lille skovgrøn fuglesilhuet i stedet for en grå klat.
• Rigtige kategorier. Daglige påmindelser, belønninger & gaver, support-svar og Rare Bird Alerts har hver sin kanal på din telefon, så du kan slå én slags fra uden at miste resten. De spændende popper som bannere.
• Tryk, og du lander det rigtige sted. En daglig påmindelse åbner spillet, et supportsvar åbner din sag, en gave åbner klokken, og liga-resultatet åbner ligaen.
• Beskeder midt i spillet forsvinder ikke længere. Et brandet banner glider ned med blød klokke og let haptik, og et tryk følger beskeden.
• Venligere påmindelser. Glider du væk fra spillet, prikker Birdey dig næste aften, igen efter tre dage, en sidste gang efter en uge, og bliver så stille med vilje. Ingen dobbelt-pings længere, og slår du notifikationer fra, er der nu helt stille.
• Dagens påmindelse taler alle 13 sprog, advarer dig ordentligt når din streak er i fare, og viser dagens fuglekort direkte i notifikationen.
• Nye beskeder for øjeblikke der før skete i stilhed: et supportsvar, en vens gave, din Top 50-udbetaling og mandagens liga-resultat.

Birdex'en styrer nu kort-økonomien

• Smelt og køb er flyttet hjem. Din fjer-saldo sidder nu i Birdex-headeren, manglende fugle kan købes direkte fra deres plads i samlingen med et kig-før-du-køber-ark, og hvert kort kan smeltes fra sin egen side. Fjer-butikken er nu ren kort-handel.
• Sider købes fra hubben. Tryk på din side-tæller under PLAY, og købe-kortet med antal og dagligt loft er bygget direkte ind i forklaringen.
• Siderne forklarer sig selv. Tælleren bor nu i sin egen navngivne "Sider"-strimmel under PLAY, og hver ny fugls afsløring fortæller hvilken side den var skrevet på.
• Mutation-kort bærer en gnist-chip der forklarer hvad en mutation er, og Svær-fanen forklarer de gennemsigtige kort.
• Lyn-scrolling er silkeblød nu. Kort-billederne blinker ikke længere ind række for række.

Ligaerne er rene færdighedsræs

• Hver fugl er 10 XP værd, og kun dit combo ganger op. En sjælden samling kan ikke længere købe en placering i den ugentlige liga eller månedens Top 50. Kun skarpe øjne tæller.
• Belønningsminimummet siges højt. En fremskridtslinje viser hvor langt du er fra at låse fjer op, og mandagens resultat forklarer en nul-udbetaling i stedet for at tie.

Nye øjeblikke

• Level-up er et rigtigt øjeblik nu. På runde-opsummeringen fejer din level-ring rundt, popper i guldgnister, tæller op til det nye nummer, og først dér slår LEVEL UP-banneret ind.
• En fejlfri runde stemples PERFECT. Et guldstempel med skinnende sweep og flyvende gnister lander over din 10/10.
• Gaver skal pakkes op. En vens gave hopper ind pakket ind med afsenderens navn, du river den op, og konfettien springer idet indholdet afsløres.
• Combos gnistrer. Forlænger du et combo, springer en lille konfetti-gnist idet din XP ruller ind, og fjer-øjeblikke har fået lyd: en blød klokke når fjer strømmer mod tælleren, et woosh når et købt kort lander.
• Faneskift er en karrusel. Hopper du til en fane længere til højre, skubber den nye skærm ind fra højre mens den gamle glider ud, og spejlvendt den anden vej. Ingen blink, ingen spøgelser.
• Ranglisterne bygger sig op. Rækker glider på plads, podiet rejser sig, og din egen række findes med et lys-strejf.
• Håndtegnede ikoner overalt. Hele ikon-familien er nu 14 varme feltbog-ikoner tegnet til Birdey, og loading er en drivende Birdey-fjer i stedet for standard-cirklen.
• Appen siger fra med følelse. En forkert vennekode eller et optaget navn ryster feltet med et lille dunk, og låste avatarer og rammer forklarer hvordan de låses op.

Hurtigere og venligere

• Appen animerer ikke længere det du ikke kan se. Skjulte faner sover nu, så den fane du kigger på får hvert eneste billede i sekundet.
• Stor tekst vælter ikke længere layoutet. Spillet viser nu al tekst i én fast, behagelig størrelse, så knapper, piller og kort bliver præcis hvor de skal være på alle enheder.
• Hubben ser ens ud på alle telefoner. Alt skalerer glat med skærmen i stedet for at springe mellem en "lille telefon"- og "stor telefon"-opsætning.
• Oplæsning er tilbage alle de steder den manglede, så unge spillere kan spille med.
• Spillet forklarer sig selv. "Sådan fungerer en runde" er tilbage i spil-headeren og fortæller nu sandheden om combos, RUSTY-banneret beroliger dig med at dine medaljer er i sikkerhed, ×2 XP-chippen fortæller hvor boostet kom fra, og Dagens Fugl siger nu hvordan man finder den: spil dens habitat i dag.
• Birdey Pro: paywallen viser nu alle fem fordele, og du kan vælge årsplanen direkte med et guldbånd der viser at 2 måneder er gratis.

Rettelser

• Rigtige svar fyrer ikke længere deres konfetti af to gange på combo-svar.
• Lukkede et lurende nedbrud bag rundens nye level-ring.
• "+N nye"-fejringen i Birdex flyver nu den ægte Birdey-fugl i stedet for en generisk blå emoji.
• Kids-mode: tutorialen kan ikke længere sætte sig fast ved Butik-trinnet.
• Let/Svær-knappen og Haptik-indstillingen taler nu alle 13 sprog.
• På forsiden opløses kortene igen blødt i himlen, lige før de når dit navn.
• World First-belønninger taler nu samme sprog som resten af spillet: +10 sider, ikke "+10 træk".

Notifications with birdsong, a Birdex that runs the economy and PERFECT rounds

Build 48 is the update where Birdey learned to knock politely. Notifications finally look like Birdey and land you in the right place when you tap them, the whole card economy moved home into your Birdex, the leagues became pure skill races, and a new layer of moments covers the entire game: level-ups worth celebrating, PERFECT stamps, gifts you get to unwrap, and an app that feels faster everywhere.

Notifications that finally look like Birdey

• A bird in the status bar. Birdey notifications on Android now show a little forest-green bird silhouette instead of a gray blob.
• Real categories. Daily reminders, rewards & gifts, support replies and Rare Bird Alerts each get their own channel on your phone, so you can mute one kind without losing the rest. The exciting ones pop as banners.
• Tap and you land in the right place. A daily reminder opens the game, a support reply opens your ticket, a gift opens the bell, and the league result opens the league.
• Pushes that arrive mid-game no longer vanish. A branded banner slides down with a soft chime and a light haptic, and tapping it follows the notification.
• Kinder reminders. If you drift away, Birdey nudges you the next evening, again after three days, one last time after a week, then goes quiet on purpose. No more double pings, and the notifications toggle now truly silences everything.
• The daily reminder speaks all 13 languages, warns you properly when your streak is on the line, and shows today's bird card art right in the notification.
• New pushes for moments that used to happen in silence: a support reply, a friend's gift, your Top 50 payout and your Monday league result.

The Birdex now runs the card economy

• Melting and buying moved home. Your feather balance now sits in the Birdex header, missing birds can be bought right from their slot in the collection with an inspect-before-you-buy sheet, and every card can be melted from its own page. The Feather Shop is now purely card trading.
• Pages are bought from the hub. Tap your page counter under PLAY and the buy card, with quantity picks and your daily cap, is built right into the explainer.
• Pages explain themselves. The counter now lives in its own labeled "Pages" strip under PLAY, and every new bird's reveal tells you which page it was written on.
• Mutation cards wear a sparkle chip that explains what a mutation is, and the Hard tab explains the see-through cards.
• Fast scrolling is silky now. Card images no longer flash in row by row.

The leagues are pure skill races

• Every bird is worth the same 10 XP, and only your combo multiplies it. A rare collection can no longer buy a rank in the weekly league or the monthly Top 50. Only sharp eyes count.
• The reward minimum is said out loud. A progress line shows how far you are from unlocking feathers, and the Monday result explains a zero payout instead of staying silent.

New moments

• Leveling up is a real moment now. On the round summary your level ring sweeps to full, pops in a burst of gold sparks, ticks over to the new number, and only then does the LEVEL UP banner slam in.
• A flawless round gets stamped PERFECT. A gold stamp with a shine sweep and flying sparks lands over your 10/10.
• Gifts get unwrapped. A friend's gift bounces in wrapped up with the sender's name, you tear it open, and confetti bursts as the contents are revealed.
• Combos spark. Extending a combo fires a quick confetti flash right as your XP rolls in, and feather moments got a voice: a soft chime as feathers stream toward the counter, a whoosh as a bought card lands.
• Tab switching is a carousel. Jump to a tab further right and the new screen pushes in from the right while the old one slides out, mirrored the other way. No flashing, no ghosts.
• The boards build themselves up. Rows cascade into place, the podium rises, and your own row is found with a sweep of light.
• Hand-drawn icons everywhere. The whole icon family is now 14 warm field-notebook icons drawn for Birdey, and loading is a drifting Birdey feather instead of the stock circle.
• The app pushes back with feeling. A wrong friend code or a taken name shakes the input with a little thud, and locked avatars and borders explain how to unlock them.

Faster and friendlier

• The app stops animating what you can't see. Hidden tabs now sleep, so the tab you are looking at gets every frame to itself.
• Large text no longer breaks the layout. The game now renders all text at one fixed, comfy size, so pills, cards and buttons stay exactly where they belong on every device.
• The hub looks the same on every phone. Everything scales smoothly with the screen instead of snapping between a "small phone" and a "big phone" layout.
• Read-aloud is back everywhere it was missing, so young players can play along.
• The game explains itself. "How a round works" is back in the game header and now tells the truth about combos, the RUSTY banner reassures you that your medals are safe, the ×2 XP chip tells you where the boost came from, and the Bird of the Day now says how to find it: play its habitat today.
• Birdey Pro: the paywall now shows all five perks, and you can pick the yearly plan right there, wearing a gold ribbon that shows 2 months are free.

Fixes

• Correct answers no longer fire their confetti twice on combo answers.
• Closed a lurking crash behind the round summary's new level ring.
• The "+N new" celebration in the Birdex now flies the real Birdey bird instead of a generic blue emoji.
• Kids mode: the tutorial can no longer get stuck at the Shop step.
• The Easy/Hard toggle and the Haptics setting now speak all 13 languages.
• On the home screen, cards once again dissolve softly into the sky just before they reach your name.
• World First rewards now speak the same language as the rest of the game: +10 pages, not "+10 pulls".

Ligaer, titler og levende avatar-rammer

Build 46 er den største opdatering til dato. Der er et helt nyt konkurrencelag med ugentlige og månedlige ræs, der uddeler rigtige titler, avatar-rammer der nu kommer til live, en Svær øvelsestilstand til de skarpe øjne, en Fjer-butik der er blevet pyntet op, og en belønningskiste der venter for enden af hver runde.

Konkurrér og vis dig frem

• Ugentlige og månedlige ræs. Liga-skærmen rummer nu begge: et ugentligt ræs der nulstilles hver mandag, og et månedligt ræs med fjer-udbetalinger ned gennem listen. Klatr op gennem fjer-rangene, og du optjener en titel du bærer måneden ud.
• Et månedligt Impact-ræs. Red mest levested denne måned, og du tager en midlertidig titel med hjem som Habitat Hero eller Nature Guardian. Kun status, aldrig magt, og det nulstilles, så nye spillere altid kan tage kronen.
• Titler overalt. Dine optjente titler og emblem-navneskilte vises nu på din profil, på venner og på alle lister og podier, og en ny titelvælger lader dig se dem og vælge den du viser frem.
• Verdens-ranglisten er blevet et hall of fame: Level og Impact side om side som store felter, altid synlige.
• Combo-farverne klatrer op ad sjældenhedsstigen i takt med din stime, fra grøn hele vejen til mytisk violet ved et x10-combo.

Nyt udseende

• Avatar-rammestiger. Tre stiger du optjener (Wildwood, Ascent og Open Hand) plus Founder- og Early Bird-rammerne, og dit højeste trin vises automatisk.
• De sjældneste rammer kommer nu til live. Top-rammerne skifter langsomt farve, sender små lys-kugler rundt om ringen og ånder et blødt skær. Det spiller kun på dit eget portræt, så lange lister forbliver skarpe, og det respekterer din Living UI-indstilling.

Spil på din måde

• Let og Svær øvelse. En ny knap lader dig vælge udfordring: Svær tilstand tester dig kun i de mere drilske transparente varianter, plus en sjælden mutation i ny og næ.
• Transparente fugle betaler mere. At spotte de transparente hun- og ungfugle-varianter belønner nu bedre end deres normale udgaver.

Hver runde slutter med en belønning

• Belønningskiste efter hver runde. Færdiggør en runde, og en lille kiste lander i hjørnet. Tryk for at åbne den: låget springer op, og din belønning ruller op og folder sig ind i din saldo. Farven afslører først hvor godt trækket er, når kisten åbner: et varmt glimt for fjer, blå og rød for sider, og en lilla JACKPOT for det bedste træk. Ingen daglig grænse, så jo mere du spiller, jo flere kister, og abonnenter trækker de sjældne sider langt oftere.
• Daglige opgaver. Tre nye opgaver hver dag, som du kan klare på en runde eller to. Hver opgave viser sin sjældenhed og betaler efter den, og du åbner en kiste for at hente belønningen. Passer en opgave dig ikke, kaster du den bare om for 5 fjer.
• Dagligt dobbelt-op. Bank et par sider i din sparegris i dag, spil bare én runde i morgen, og de er fordoblet. Møder du ikke op, får du dine sider tilbage urørt: du kan aldrig tabe, kun gå glip af bonussen på dage du ikke spiller. Medlemmer kan banke flere.

Fjer-butikken er blevet pyntet op

• At smelte overskydende kort til fjer er nu en rigtig fejring, med vælg-alle og en tælle-op-total. Tryk på et kort for at se det nærmere, at købe et kort spiller en afsløring, og hele butikken fjedrer, forskyder og ryster når du er flad.

Flere forbedringer

• Nyligt spottede fugle i din Birdex bærer nu en lysende ring, indtil du har set dem, med en lille tæller-fejring.
• At forære et abonnement giver nu vennen 20 sider, og hubben har fået en ny (+)-genvej på din side-tæller.
• Level-kurven er stejlere nu, så højere levels tager længere, og et højt level betyder mere.
• Landevælgeren til fugleture ændrer nu hvilke fugle du kan finde, ikke kun hvilke du bliver spurgt om.
• Emblem-fejringen venter på dig: medaljen og den XP du fik, bliver stående på skærmen til du trykker.
• På forsiden smelter kortene blødt op i himlen, når du ruller dem op mod din hilsen.

Rettelser

• Rettede et nedbrud der kunne ske når man åbnede Liga-fanen.
• Konfettien fra runde-opsummeringen følger ikke længere med hjem til hubben.
• Opdateret kortkunst og miniaturer opdateres nu korrekt på din enhed i stedet for at vise det gamle billede.

Leagues, titles and living avatar borders

Build 46 is the biggest update yet. There is a whole new competitive layer with weekly and monthly races that hand out real titles, avatar borders that now come alive, a Hard practice mode for the sharp-eyed, a glowed-up Feather Shop, and a reward chest waiting at the end of every round.

Compete and show off

• Weekly and monthly races. The League screen now hosts both: a weekly race that resets every Monday and a monthly race with feather payouts down the board. Climb the feather rank bands and you earn a title you wear for the month.
• A monthly Impact race. Save the most habitat this month and you take home an expiring showcase title like Habitat Hero or Nature Guardian. Status only, never power, and it resets so newcomers can always take the crown.
• Titles everywhere. Your earned titles and emblem nameplates now show on your profile, on friends, and on every board and podium, and a new title picker lets you preview and choose the one you show off.
• The World Leaderboard became a hall of fame: Level and Impact side by side as big tiles, always on show.
• Combo colours climb the rarity ladder as your streak grows, from green all the way to mythic violet at a x10 combo.

New looks

• Avatar border ladders. Three earned ladders (Wildwood, Ascent and Open Hand) plus the Founder and Early Bird frames, and your highest tier shows automatically.
• The rarest frames now come alive. The top borders slowly cycle colour, drift little light-orbs around the ring and breathe a soft glow. It only plays on your own portrait so long boards stay crisp, and it respects your Living UI setting.

Play your way

• Easy and Hard practice. A new toggle lets you pick your challenge: Hard mode quizzes you only on the trickier transparent variants, plus the occasional rare mutation.
• Transparent birds pay more. Spotting the transparent female and juvenile variants now out-rewards their normal versions.

Every round ends with a reward

• A reward chest after every round. Finish a round and a little chest lands in the corner. Tap to open it: the lid bursts, and your reward rolls up and folds into your balance. The colour only reveals how good the pull is as the chest opens: a warm glint for feathers, blue and red for pages, and a purple JACKPOT for the top pull. There's no daily limit, so the more you play the more chests you get, and subscribers pull the rare pages far more often.
• Daily quests. Three fresh quests every day, clearable in a round or two. Each shows its rarity and pays to match, and you open a chest to claim the reward. If a quest doesn't suit you, reroll it for 5 feathers.
• Daily double-up. Bank a few pages in your piggy bank today, play just one round tomorrow, and they come back doubled. Miss a day and your pages are returned untouched: you can never lose, you only skip the bonus on days you don't show up. Members can bank more.

The Feather Shop got a glow-up

• Melting spare cards into feathers is now a proper celebration, with select-all and a counting-up total. Tap any card to inspect it, buying a card plays a reveal, and the whole shop springs, staggers and shakes when you are broke.

More improvements

• Freshly spotted birds in your Birdex now wear a glowing ring until you have seen them, with a little counter celebration.
• Gifting a subscription now hands the friend 20 pages, and the hub has a new (+) shortcut on your page counter.
• The level curve is steeper now, so higher levels take longer and a high level means more.
• The field-trip country picker now changes which birds you can find, not just which ones you are quizzed on.
• The emblem celebration waits for you: the medal and the XP you gained stay on screen until you tap.
• On the home screen, cards melt softly into the sky as you scroll them up toward your greeting.

Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could happen when opening the League tab.
• Round-summary confetti no longer follows you back to the hub.
• Updated card art and thumbnails now refresh correctly on your device instead of showing the old picture.

Sider i bundter, Svær-samlingen og en artsliste der belønner

Build 45 er samler-opdateringen. Brug dine sider 3 eller 10 ad gangen, køb nye for fjer, jagt den nye Svær-samling i din Birdex, og artslisten betaler nu fjer for hver milepæl du krydser.

Nye funktioner

• Brug sider i bundter. Vælg ×3 eller ×10 ved siden af SPIL, og én runde finder alle fuglene: afsløret en efter en med fuld kikkert-søgning for hver eneste fugl og en "Fugl 2 af 10"-tæller undervejs. Runden er samtidig altid et rent spil med 10 gæt, for afsløringerne kommer nu efter sidste kort.
• Køb sider i Fjerbutikken. Smelt dine dubletter og køb sider for 5 fjer stykket, op til 10 om dagen. Og løber du tør, viser en ny "Få sider"-knap alle vejene til flere: spil runder, butikken, inviter venner, world firsts, og gaver du et abonnement, siger vi nu tak med 20 sider.
• Birdex-samlinger. To chips skifter hele din Birdex mellem Basis-samlingen og Svær-samlingen (de transparente kort uden baggrund, som er sværere at gætte), og en live tæller viser præcis hvor langt du er, fx 12/40 i Skov, uanset hvilke filtre du har slået til.
• Spoiler-tilstand for samlere. En ny øje-knap i din Birdex viser alle de fugle, du mangler, som grå spøgelseskort med navn. Slået fra som standard, så mysteriet består.
• Artslisten betaler nu. Hver milepæl på stigen (10, 25, 50, 100, 150, 200, 300 arter) giver fjer i samme øjeblik, du spotter fuglen der krydser den: 10 fjer ved dine første 10 arter, voksende til 80. Tryk på tælleren i din Birdex og se hele stigen folde sig ud.
• Pral med dine World Firsts. World First-kort bærer nu et gyldent mærke i din Birdex (krone til den allerførste opdager, stjerne til top-30), og et tryk deler det indrammede opdagelsesbillede, når som helst du vil.
• Æren til finderen. Observations-popuppen i basen viser nu hvem der spottede den sjældne fugl først, med navn i guld.
• 5 nye lande. Du kan nu vælge Belgien, Holland, Italien, Polen og Portugal som dit land.

Forbedringer og rettelser

• Dagens fugls ×2 XP kan nu ses: hvert rigtigt svar viser dobbelt XP i runden, og opsummeringen markerer totalen med et ×2-mærke.
• Emblem-øjeblikket er rent: den grønne konfetti blokerer ikke længere medalje-stemplet, og medaljetællerne på profilerne er repareret for alle (en spiller stod til minus 140 medaljer!).
• Et hårdt crash, der kunne lukke appen lige når du kom tilbage til basen efter en runde, er fikset.
• Din Birdex ruller silkeblødt: billederne loader forud for din tommelfinger, hurtige sving hakker ikke længere, og alle kortbilleder henter nu 9 gange hurtigere.
• Forsiden er blevet klogere om aftenen: fra kl. 18 rykker en uafsluttet streak øverst, så ingen mister en 40-dages flamme. Og når et habitat næsten er komplet, sender et nyt kort dig direkte på felttur i det.
• Abonnementstilbuddet nager mindre: det viser sig sjældnere og aldrig i børnetilstand.

Pages in bundles, the Hard collection and a Lifer List that pays

Build 45 is the collector's update. Spend your pages 3 or 10 at a time, buy new ones with feathers, chase the new Hard collection in your Birdex, and the Lifer List now pays feathers for every milestone you cross.

New features

• Spend pages in bundles. Pick ×3 or ×10 next to PLAY and one round finds all those birds: revealed one after another with the full spotting-scope search for every single bird and a "Bird 2 of 10" counter along the way. Rounds are also always a clean 10-guess game now, with the reveals coming after the final card.
• Buy pages in the Feather Shop. Melt your spare cards and turn feathers into pages, 5 feathers each, up to 10 a day. And if you run dry, a new "Get pages" button lists every route to more: play rounds, the shop, invite friends, world firsts, and gifting a subscription now thanks you with 20 pages.
• Birdex collections. Two chips switch your whole Birdex between the Base collection and the Hard collection (the transparent cards with no background, much harder to guess), with a live counter showing exactly how far you are, like 12/40 in Forest, following whatever filters you have on.
• Collector spoiler mode. A new eye toggle in your Birdex reveals every bird you haven't spotted yet as a greyed-out ghost card with its name. Off by default, so the mystery stays.
• The Lifer List now pays. Every milestone on the ladder (10, 25, 50, 100, 150, 200, 300 species) drops feathers the moment you spot the bird that crosses it: 10 feathers at your first 10 species, growing to 80. Tap the counter in your Birdex to unfold the whole ladder.
• Flex your World Firsts. World-first cards now carry a golden badge in your Birdex (a crown for the very first discoverer, a star for top-30), and one tap shares the framed discovery image any time you like.
• Credit to the finder. The Sightings popup on the hub now shows who spotted the rare bird first, name in gold.
• 5 new countries. You can now pick Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland and Portugal as your country.

Improvements and fixes

• The Daily Bird's ×2 XP is finally visible: every correct answer pops doubled XP in the round, and the summary flags the total with a ×2 tag.
• Earning an emblem is a clean moment now: the green confetti no longer blocks the medal stamp, and the medal counters on profiles are repaired for everyone (one player was showing minus 140 medals!).
• Squashed a hard crash that could kill the app right as you came back to the hub after a round.
• Your Birdex scrolls silky smooth: images load ahead of your thumb, fast flings no longer stutter, and every card image now downloads 9 times faster.
• The home screen got smarter in the evening: from 18:00 an unsaved streak jumps to the top so nobody loses a 40-day flame. And when a habitat is nearly complete, a new card drops you straight into a field trip there.
• The subscription offer nags less: it shows up more rarely and never in kids mode.

Månedens Top 50, stjernehimmel og inviter en ven

Build 43 handler om at dyste og om at spille sammen. Top 50-listen er blevet et månedligt kapløb med fjer-præmier, du kan invitere venner ind i betaen med din egen kode, og appen har endelig fået en rigtig nat.

Nye funktioner

• Månedens Top 50. Top 50-listen er nu et månedskapløb: al XP du optjener i kalendermåneden tæller, og alle starter forfra den 1. Når måneden slutter, vinder hele listen fjer. 100 til nr. 1, 50 til nr. 2, 30 til nr. 3 og gradvist mindre ned gennem listen. Du skal optjene mindst 15.000 XP i måneden, før præmien udbetales.
• Fair play i ligaen. Den ugentlige liga udbetaler nu kun fjer, hvis du har optjent mindst 3.000 XP i ugen. Placeringer og titler er som før.
• Inviter en ven. Du har fået din egen invitationskode. En ven der starter med din kode, begynder med 10 bonussider, og når vennen holder en 3-dages streak, banker du selv 30 ind. Op til 10 venner, og I bliver automatisk venner i spillet.
• Nat i appen. Appen følger nu hele døgnet: rødlig solopgang fra kl. 6, lys dag, gylden solnedgang fra kl. 17 og en ægte stjernehimmel med måne fra kl. 20 til 6. Spiller du efter midnat, ligner det endelig midnat.
• Level og titler på profiler. Offentlige profiler viser nu spillerens level i den kendte gyldne ring, og valgte titler vises korrekt for alle.

Forbedringer og rettelser

• Afsløringen af nye fugle er blevet markant flottere og smidigere: kikkerten dvæler længere for hvert stop, jo sjældnere fuglen er, sjældne fugle glider skarpe ind i fokus mens de zoomer mod dig, og lysstrålerne bag kortet hakker ikke længere.
• Du kan nu holde fingeren på fuglekortet uden at spole nedtællingen frem, og når du spoler, mærkes hvert sekund som et lille tik i hånden.
• COMBO-teksten hænger længere på skærmen, Næste kort-knappen er et sekund hurtigere, og den grønne konfetti forsvinder hurtigt, så du ser dit kort med det samme.
• Side-ikonet i basen er blevet et lille stykke spilkunst: pergament, æselører og fjerpen.
• Birdex-kortsiden er ryddet op, så detaljerne om din træfsikkerhed ligger bag pilen og kun vises, når du beder om det.
• EX-kortenes skimrende folie er tilbage efter en grafikfejl, og Dagens fugl flyver dig nu direkte til sit habitat.

Monthly Top 50, starry nights and invite a friend

Build 43 is about competing and playing together. The Top 50 board became a monthly race with feather prizes, you can invite friends into the beta with your own code, and the app finally got a real night.

New features

• Monthly Top 50. The Top 50 board is now a monthly race: all XP you earn during the calendar month counts, and everyone starts fresh on the 1st. When the month closes, the whole board wins feathers. 100 for #1, 50 for #2, 30 for #3 and gradually less down the list. You need at least 15,000 XP in the month for the prize to pay out.
• Fair play in the league. The Weekly League now only pays feathers if you earned at least 3,000 XP that week. Ranks and titles work as before.
• Invite a friend. You now have your own invite code. A friend who joins with your code starts with 10 bonus pages, and when they keep a 3 day streak you bank 30 yourself. Up to 10 friends, and you automatically become friends in the game.
• Night in the app. The app now lives the full day: a rosy sunrise from 6, bright daylight, a golden sunset from 17, and a real starry sky with a moon from 20 to 6. Playing past midnight finally looks like midnight.
• Level and titles on profiles. Public profiles now show the player's level in the familiar golden ring, and chosen titles display correctly for everyone.

Improvements and fixes

• New-bird reveals look and feel far better: the spotting scope lingers longer at each stop the rarer the bird, rare birds slide into focus while they zoom toward you, and the light rays behind the card no longer stutter.
• You can now hold your finger on the bird card without fast-forwarding the countdown, and when you do fast-forward, every second gives a small tick in your hand.
• The COMBO text stays on screen longer, the Next card button is a second snappier, and the green confetti clears quickly so you see your card right away.
• The page icon in the hub became a little piece of game art: parchment, a folded corner and a quill.
• The Birdex card page was decluttered, so your accuracy details sit behind the arrow and only show on demand.
• The EX cards' shimmering foil is back after a rendering bug, and the Daily Bird now flies you straight to its habitat.

Den store medalje-opdatering

Den her er stor. Vi har bygget et helt nyt medaljesystem, en ny ugentlig liga og en dagens fugl, og samtidig ryddet op i en stribe fejl. Her er alt det nye i beta build 41.

Nye funktioner

• Nyt medaljesystem. Hvert kort husker nu, hvor præcist du kender fuglen. Svar rigtigt igen og igen og optjen Bronze, Sølv og Guld, og til sidst Diamant for 50 fejlfrie svar. En medalje er din for altid, når først den er vundet.
• Rustne kort. Fugle du ikke har set længe, ruster til. Spot dem rigtigt og ryst rusten af.
• Combo og spillerlevel. Rigtige svar i træk bygger din combo og booster din XP. Al din XP samles nu i ét spillerlevel, som du kan se på din profil.
• Ugentlig Liga. Alle spillere dyster nu på ét samlet bræt. Hver mandag nulstilles kapløbet, og alle starter forfra. Slut højt søndag aften og vind fjer, og de bedste får en titel i 28 dage.
• Titler. Vind titler gennem World Firsts og ligaen, og vælg hvilken der skal vises på din profil.
• Dagens fugl. Alle spillere jagter den samme fugl hver dag. Spot den og få 10 minutter med dobbelt XP.
• Rare Bird Alert. Når en sjælden fugl bliver spottet ude i verden, kan du se det live i toppen af skærmen. Ind imellem dukker en tidsbegrænset fugl op med kraftigt boostet chance.
• Streak-belønninger. Din streak giver nu fjer ved faste milepæle, med ekstra store belønninger ved dag 10, 20 og 30. Misser du en dag, kan du redde din streak for 5 fjer.
• Din startidentitet. Nye spillere får en avatar og en eksklusiv Early Bird-ramme fra dag ét, og offentlige profiler viser nu titel, statistik og World Firsts.
• Prøv gratis i 7 dage. Du kan nu prøve alle fordele gratis i en uge, helt uden binding.
• Bedre fejlrapporter. Rapporterer du en fejl, kan du nu følge sagen og svare os direkte under Indstillinger, Mine tickets.
• Din indflydelse. Se hvor meget natur du har været med til at beskytte, målt i alt fra havedamme til fodboldbaner.
• Mere liv i Practice mode. Afsløringen i kikkerten skalerer nu med fuglens sjældenhed, og en fodsporssti viser din fremgang gennem runden.

Rettelser og forbedringer

• Rettet en fejl hvor lydeffekter kunne fejle i stilhed på nogle Android-enheder.
• Sikkerheden er strammet op flere steder, blandt andet så sletning af konto nu fjerner alle dine data fuldstændigt.
• Rettet grafikfejl på foliekortenes rammer og metaleffekter.
• Notifikationer er blevet klogere og varierer nu deres beskeder.
• Sproglige rettelser og forbedrede oversættelser på alle 9 sprog.

The big medal update

This one is big. We built a brand new medal system, a new Weekly League and a bird of the day, and cleaned up a batch of bugs along the way. Here is everything new in beta build 41.

New features

• New medal system. Every card now tracks how accurately you know the bird. Answer correctly again and again to earn Bronze, Silver and Gold, and finally Diamond for 50 flawless answers. Once earned, a medal is yours forever.
• Rusty cards. Birds you have not seen in a while gather rust. Spot them correctly to shake it off.
• Combo and player level. Correct answers in a row build your combo and boost your XP. All your XP now feeds one player level, visible on your profile.
• Weekly League. Everyone now competes on one global board. Every Monday the race resets and all players start from zero. Finish high on Sunday night to win feathers, and the top finishers earn a title for 28 days.
• Titles. Earn titles through World Firsts and the league, and choose which one to show on your profile.
• Bird of the Day. Every player hunts the same bird each day. Spot it and get 10 minutes of double XP.
• Rare Bird Alert. When a rare bird is spotted somewhere in the world, you see it live at the top of your screen. Now and then a time-limited bird appears with a heavily boosted chance.
• Streak rewards. Your streak now pays out feathers at set milestones, with extra big rewards at day 10, 20 and 30. Miss a day and you can rescue your streak for 5 feathers.
• Your starting identity. New players get an avatar and an exclusive Early Bird border from day one, and public profiles now show your title, stats and World Firsts.
• Try free for 7 days. You can now try every perk free for a week, cancel anytime.
• Better bug reports. Report a bug and you can now follow the case and reply to us directly under Settings, My tickets.
• Your impact. See how much nature you have helped protect, measured in everything from garden ponds to football pitches.
• More life in Practice mode. The spotting scope reveal now scales with the bird's rarity, and a footprint trail shows your progress through the round.

Fixes and improvements

• Fixed a bug where sound effects could fail silently on some Android devices.
• Security has been tightened in several places, including account deletion now fully removing all your data.
• Fixed rendering glitches on foil card frames and metal effects.
• Notifications got smarter and now vary their messages.
• Copy fixes and improved translations across all 9 languages.