Limosa: Birding & Bird IDv2026.37.01

What changed

• UXRedesigned checklist into a grid with search and instant keyboard access
• New featureAdded subspecies support within the species grid and logging flow
• ContentIntroduced rarity ladder and bird-count based population data
• New featureIntegrated world distribution maps directly into the app
• New featureAdded target species list to track and remember desired sightings
• SocialUpdated sharing cards to match browser styling for social media
• New featureEnabled offline species searching and identification syncing
• PerformanceImproved app startup speed by decoupling splash screen from species list loading
• UXFixed privacy bug where public sightings appeared in private lists
• PerformanceResolved upload queue stalling and Firebase-related startup hangs

Original release notes

This update is about the checklist, the species page and subspecies.

Checklist
• The list is now a grid, with four ways to reach it, search on the tab, and a keyboard that opens right away
• Subspecies sit under their species and open from the grid
• Sort by what is most your target species, and see per species where its months come from

Species page
• The rarity ladder shows how common or rare a species is in your region
• "How is this species doing" now reads sources that count birds rather than reports. For the Netherlands those are the Red List and the official reporting
• The world distribution map is now in the app too

Subspecies
• 21 subspecies have a name of their own and 22 have their own icon
• While logging you can see when there is something to determine, through a chooser sheet instead of a long list

Target species
• A list of the species you are still looking for, and a sighting remembers that it was your target at the time

Also
• Sharing gives you the same card on your phone as in the browser, ready for Instagram
• Searching the species list now works without a connection, and identifications you make offline still come through
• The app starts faster, because the splash no longer waits for the species list

Fixed
• Your own list sometimes showed other people's public sightings as well
• The splash could hang when Firebase was slow to start
• The distribution map was too pale because it divided by the busiest cell
• The like count was missing in the gallery and on the sighting detail
• One failed upload stalled the whole queue