WildObs Naturalist 2.0 and WildObs Lookout 2.0 are available in the iTunes App Store.

Both these WildObs products now contain the functionality of WildObs Observer (to record any encounter along with time/location/photograph) but also provide their own features on top. This allows you to pick the WildObs application that is right for you, and stick with that one application.

WildObs Naturalist also let’s you :

• Browse all your records, recent and most viewed, and view your species – favorites, wishlist, and life-list
• Find new wildlife locations around your location, based off other observer’s encounters.
• Find new wildlife species around your location, based off other observer’s encounters.
• Map your recent/local wildlife encounters.

Use your encounters to find nature...

WildObs Lookout also let’s you:

• Browse recent/local wildlife encounters
• Browse recent/local wildlife encounters for species from your favorites/wishlist
• View what your network of observers are seeing.
• Checkout the wildlife at nearby willdife spots (based off other observer’s encounters.)

See what others have seen...

WildObs Observer 2.0 is available for iPhone, iPad and iPod, see here: http://wildobs.com/about/observer

WildObs Observer let’s you record your wildlife encounters (on or offline in the woods), but also let’s you :

• Browse all your records
• See what species are around your location, based off other observer’s encounters.
• Lookup a species by name (partial or scientific.)
• Browse (and comment upon) recent and featured wildlife encounters.

One thing I really enjoy, is that featured encounters are viewable on the home page. Check this and others out …

To record your wildlife encounter with WildObs all you need are the what, where, when.

• What species did you see.
• Where did you see it.
• When did the encounter occur.

Here is a short video of the process on the website:

More WildObs videos can be found here http://youtube.com/wildobservations.

Some tips & pointers:

• Everything is editable, and things like descriptions, photos, videos can be added at a later date.
• Don’t worry if WildObs doesn’t find your species or location immediately, those can be refined later (including being added to the WildObs database.)
• Tags (keywords) are comma separated categorizations. E.g. first-of-season.
• Title and Description are optional, but do enrich the encounter.
• Syndicate means “this is more than the everyday encounter, it should be published as such”.
• Public/Private allows you to  record encounters, but not share them with anybody else.

Quickest Record Entry:

Record your Encounter (with context)

Whenever you see the following link button on the top right of a page you can enter a wildobs, and information from the page you are on will be used as defaults on that wildobs encounter. This can save both typing and look-ups.

• Species page: The species (what) is defaulted.
• Place page: The place (where) is defaulted.
• Encounter page. The species & place are defaulted.
• Image page. The photograph is defaulted.

For example if you’ve seen another encounter that you’ve posted before, you can press “Record your WildObs” on that encounter to carry over most of t he details (with the time changing to now.)

Thanks for sharing your wildlife, and guiding others to nature.

Use WildObs Lookout to find your nature:

• Find nearby encounter from the WildObs community (including for your favorite and wish-list species.)
• Find nearby wildlife places (National Parks, State Parks, and more.)
• Browse encounters from the WildObs community.

The latest WildObs Lookout is in the App Store:

Find your nature with WildObs Lookout

Find Nearby Encounters:

Find nearby nature with WildObs Lookout

View an Encounter:

Find your nature with WildObs Lookout

Show the Species:

Find your nature with WildObs Lookout

Map the Encounter:

Find your nature with WildObs Lookout

We just released WildObs Mobile for Android version 1.3 into the market with a new menu item: HOME.

The HOME button allows you to log in to WildObs Mobile and enabled features like commenting upon encounters, and allowing you to record encounters from your mobile browser.

As always, feedback is welcomed and encouraged. Please let us know how this works for you.

Login to your WildObs account from your Android device.

Record the what, where & when of your wildlife encounters. This version provides optional support for use of device GPS to capture location information speeding your wildlife recording.

Record your WildObs wildlife encounters from your Android device

Find out more about WildObs Mobile for Android or (if you are on an Android device) go to the market:

With FaceBook, with Twitter, feedback mechanisms and all the online social mediums for conversations we’ve attempted to integrate WildObs into those social mediums not create yet another one. As such we resisted creating a forum system for WildObs, until now…

Some conversations are just not that social … they are quite specific, and not something to overload your friends and followers activity streams with. So, we’ve launched WildObs Forums with initially some pretty focused goals:

http://forums.wildobs.com/

Note: You use your WildObs username and password to access these forums.

Help & Using WildObs:

http://forums.wildobs.com/list.php?3

Wildobs Features: What would you like WildObs to do?

http://forums.wildobs.com/list.php?4

and because it is new/maturing/different, WildObs Mobile the mobile website:

http://forums.wildobs.com/list.php?9

Discussions on Wildobsing: Getting out and about and generally interacting with nature:

http://forums.wildobs.com/list.php?8

Please let us know if you have more ideas on forums you’d like to see here.

WildObs Mobile 1.1 for Android now supports Android 1.5 to Android 2.0 and beyond.

Here is a brief overview of WildObs Mobile including how to use WildObs Mobile for Android to:

• Browse community wildlife encounters (featured, most popular and recent.)
• Perform a species look-up by name or partial name, viewing photographs and other encounters.

Find out more about WildObs Mobile for Android or (if you are on an Android device) go to the market:

There have been a number of requests to for importing photographs previously uploaded to Flickr into WildObs, for use in describing a wildlife encounter. In short the process is:

• Go to your wildobs photograph gallery from your home page, and use the Flickr tab.
• Allow WildObs to connect to Flickr, authorizing it (typically once only) if needed.
• Select the photograph or photographs you wish to import.
• Create new wildlife encounters from one or more of these photographs.

Here is a simple how-to video on how to use this new feature. All feedback is welcomed.

View the wildlife that other observers are seeing around you. Knowing what to look for is half the challenge, and anticipation is much of the fun:

Want access to your wildlife encounters when you are out an about? Want to know what you saw the last time you visited this park, beach, or location? Want to know what others have been seeing that isn’t on your life-list? If so, then WildObs Naturalist (the latest member of the WildObs family of wildlife applications) is for you.

WildObs Naturalist ... find your nature

View your recent, local and popular encounters (or encounters by tag):

WildObs Naturalist: Your encounters

Review your wildlife life-list:

Check your species life-list

See what others have seen close to where you are that is not on your life-list, then find out where to find those species locally:

WildObs Naturalist - Local species not on your Lifelist