Birda | A Bird Watching App to Identify Birds, Learn & Share (original) (raw)

A bird watching app like no other

ID birds, learn, and share your bird watching journey

Turn outdoor enjoyment into bird knowledge, human connections and wildlife conservation

Identify birds, spend more time in nature, share your bird watching photos and turn bird identification into birding skills, human connections and wildlife conservation.

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Connect with nature in minutes

Take a walk, or look out of the window, and log & ID the birds that you see. Feel good about those little connections to nature.

Discover the joy of birding

Find new birding spots, identify birds, share, and celebrate with a like-minded community of nature lovers.

Play your part in saving nature

Logging your birding sightings and sessions turns into positive action for our planet. Every sighting counts.

Your birding journey. All in one place.

Keep track of all of your birding activities and bird spotting achievements. Look back over your sightings and plan your next adventure.

Find & ID Birds

Struggling to identify a bird or find the perfect birding spot? Browse our interactive map and data from over 1 billion sightings to find new places to go birding. And use Birda’s AI-powered bird identifier tool to identify birds from photos (even blurry ones), the in-built species guide, or get help from the community to identify what you’ve spotted.

Log & Track

Whether you’re walking the dog, making coffee by the kitchen window or sitting at the park, you can easily log all your birding activities on your phone or sync your data from other platforms. Measure your progress with automated life lists, fun badges and well-being charts.

Share & Connect

See the most unusual, exciting and inspiring bird sightings by people like you. Share yours with the community, if you choose to, and connect with like-minded birders locally and around the world.

Motivation to live wilder. Everyday.

Nature is too exciting not to be enjoyed. Spend more time outdoors exploring the bird life around you.

Track progress toward birding goals

Set goals to make sure you have the birding journey you want. From species to days wild – we’ll help you get there.

Challenge yourself

Push your birding and bird identification skills to new heights with all kinds of friendly birding challenges from Big Years to photography challenges. Birda is not your typical app to identify birds, it’s the perfect excuse to spend more time in nature.

Our community will keep you inspired.

Our feed is full of everything from little brown jobs to majestic eagles. Get kudos for your lifers, feel supported by a friendly community and your birding moments will motivate them too.

Easy bird identification help

Not sure what bird you saw? Identify birds by uploading a photo of your bird to the AI-powered bird ID tool or log your bird as unidentified and the helpful community will offer suggestions so you can identify what you’ve seen.

Learn from local birders

Our ‘nearby feed’ is dedicated to the birds logged near you. A perfect way to see other birders local sightings, expand your birding spots and find new birding buddies nearby.

Birdwatching with impact.

Your bird sightings have a direct impact on helping conservation so all that time in nature is not only good for you, but good for the planet. Birda sends all of the sightings data it collects to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) so that scientists can use it to understand more about the world’s bird species and their habitats.

Birds aren’t all we care about. We care about you.

The safari holiday that sparked a new era of birdwatching.

An encounter with an elusive leopard had co-founders John and Natalie wondering if there was a way to digitally share wildlife sightings that was as much about the people sharing them as what they had seen?

What our birders say

I love how Birda encourages me to identify every species I see, reinvigorating my garden and year listing and that tingle of excitement when a ‘new’ or ‘first’ species is spotted. The best thing about Birda is that it makes birdwatching a bit more of a quest, and is motivating me to make more time to visit a wider range of nature spots.

Ajay TegalaUK

One of my favorite things about birding is the connection with other birders and Birda has provided a great app that brings birders together. We can share with other birders, challenge ourselves a bit, and help each other out. It’s loaded with useful information and guides that will help beginners advance their skill and knowledge. A supportive community in which birders can grow and learn more about birds.

Hannah & Erik Go BirdingUSA

I love that Birda is building a new informal online birding community. It’s a great facility to record your sightings, maintain local and global lists, post photographs and take part in light hearted, fun challenges. I’ve been able to build a network of contacts, get support with bird identification and help others to learn. Brilliant!

Martin GathercoleUK

Birds have been a BIG part of my life. Being transgender and autistic, I’ve always been a bit of a loner. Ever since I started using Birda, I’ve really found my people. It’s such a fun and welcoming community that I’m proud to be a part of! Birda shows that anyone can be a birder. Like me ❤️

Mordekai ReavisUSA

I’ve been birdwatching ever since I was small but never managed to find a community of like-minded bird enthusiasts. That is until I downloaded Birda, I was immediately accepted into this community of friendly, helpful bird enthusiasts who get just as excited about spotting birds as I do. Everyone is there to help, whether you’re new to birding or have been doing it for years!

Natalia AzzopardiUK

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