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The home page of an app should present the user with a comfortable, welcoming entry to its functionality and an intuitive path to getting started with its use. We take a look at the BirdBuddy home page and expand upon its features. Continue reading “BirdBuddy Guide #1 – The Home Page”
Good things happen for a reason. But is BirdBuddy a good thing? And for what reason? Apps come in all shapes and sizes and sometimes it can be hard to justify the value of yet another offering in a crowded marketplace. But damn it, I’m gonna try. Continue reading “Why BirdBuddy?”
We’d like to grow BirdBuddy into the world’s most used bird app, but without your feedback we’d be like a rudderless ship. BirdBuddy tries to be a valued tool to anyone with an interest in pet birds and to achieve that we need to know what you like and what you don’t.
Take a look at your pet bird. There it is, eating, pooing, being cute. Those beautiful feathers, that specialized beak, the loping gait as it walks along a perch. They didn’t just appear out of nowhere. Your avian buddy has lineage stretching back over 150 million years. Continue reading “How’s Your Dinosaur Doing?”
No aviary can be hermetically sealed to keep out every conceivable external threat. At some point something is going to float, crawl or slither in and pose problems for your birds. I didn’t see any of them coming, but they came. And some were deadly. Continue reading “Aviary Pitfalls #4 – Pests and Predators”
Birds. Awww. Aren’t they cute? They wouldn’t hurt fly, would they? They’d get along just great, wouldn’t they? And surely only large ones would ever think about intimidating smaller ones. Wrong on all counts. Here’s what can happen if you invite the wrong guests to the party. Continue reading “Aviary Pitfalls #3 – Mismatched Species”
My aviary started out as a lush and verdant tribute to our planet’s rain forests. Now it more closely resembles a tinder dry desert. The plant life had to go. Here’s why. Continue reading “Aviary Pitfalls #2 – Plants and Flora”
We let a couple of our larger birds fly freely around the house for over a year. Slightly chewed curtains were acceptable collateral damage but when our beloved African Grey flew out of the front door never to be seen again and towards an uncertain fate, our innate fear of clipping the remaining bird’s wings had to be overcome. Continue reading “Our First Wing Clipping Experience”
Once the aviary in our house was established and the birds seemed comfortable enough in their new home, I began thinking about how my other hobby, programming, could somehow be linked to bird keeping. Cue the creation of BirdBuddy. Continue reading “Introduction To The BirdBuddy Mobile App”
Being highly developed mammals, we humans know that venturing into water without either sight of the bottom or an ability to swim is a recipe for disaster. Well, one of my earliest mistakes was thinking that birds somehow instinctively, surely, must have the same insight. Continue reading “Aviary Pitfalls #1 – Water Features”