about
log a bird you saw or heard. what kind was it? did you get a picture of it?
it's the honor system: nobody reviews your sightings, ranks you, or keeps score. there are no totals and no leaderboards — this is a place to notice birds, not to compete.
where your sightings live
everything you log — including the photos, videos and audio — is stored on your own account, not on ours. birds.place just renders logs we helped you save. you can learn more about how atproto makes this possible here.
naming the bird
type whatever you like: if you pick from the suggestions, the sighting also records a stable code for that species, which is what makes "the same bird, a year later" possible. if you aren't sure, options like hawk sp. or Greater/Lesser Scaup let you express that!
thanks to
- species names and codes from the eBird/Clements taxonomy, maintained by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
- suggestion ordering from GBIF occurrence counts, so the birds people frequently see come first.
- photographs on the home page from Wikimedia Commons, freely licensed — each one links to its source and photographer.