After developing it for two years, Birds & Birdwatching has some great numbers, 1400 daily users, 2.7 million pages views and 330 gigabytes monthly of traffic.
To make things simpler for us and better for our user we are merging its blog in this one, under the tag #bird.ly
Hope you all enjoy this simple change.
Today, we released version 3 of our Google Search Integration.
Bird Species
Bird Families
Bird Sightings
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bird.ly is the domain name that links directly to Birds & Birdwatching Facebook App. Users needed a quick way to get to our app and bird.ly is the solution. Just type bird.ly on your browser and you are in.
What happens to bird.im?
It is here to stay and serves a different purpose, to aggregate Birds & Birdwatching different platforms.
Short urls created in bird.im already run in bird.ly, new urls will only run on bird.ly.
Every week until the end of the year we are releasing a new or upgrading a feature every week.
Now you can broadcast your sightings to your friends via Facebook Stream. Help others see rarities and other important birds. This is an opt-in feature. Please send your feedback. Below is an example of a sighting by me.
Start today adding your sightings... Birds & Birdwatching
Now live on Birds & Birdwatching bird videos via YouTube. You can now view and link new videos relevant to each species. Soon we will support other video suppliers. All videos are linked to original, therefore we don't violate copyright.
Start by viewing Twelve-wired Bird-of-Paradise

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