Eyes up, birds in.
Say what you saw. BirdScribe writes it down, suggests the species, pins the spot and builds an eBird checklist you import yourself. You confirm every bird.
Free. Anonymous. No account.
Less time looking at a phone. More time looking at birds.
Four steps, and only two of them involve the phone.
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See the bird
Binoculars up. Nothing to open, nothing to type.
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Capture it
Tap Record and say what you saw, the way you would to a companion. A card appears with the species suggestion, the count and the GPS pin. You confirm with a tap; nothing goes on the list without you.
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Keep birding
Pocket Mode keeps the phone armed in your pocket, and a headset button starts the next recording. Voice notes for the trip diary stay private on your phone.
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Get the list into eBird
End the trip, review the cards, and export a 19-column eBird Record Format CSV. You import it yourself on eBird's site. BirdScribe is not affiliated with eBird.
Free. Anonymous. No account.
- Free
- No subscription. No trial that runs out. Built by working bird guides and given away.
- Anonymous
- No sign-in, no profile, nothing that names you. Your trips, recordings and notes live on your phone.
- No account
- Install it and start. There is no sign-up, no email to hand over, no password to remember.
BirdScribe is not affiliated with eBird. There is no API connection, integration, partnership or endorsement. The whole relationship is the eBird Record Format CSV that BirdScribe exports and you import yourself.
Made by guides who bird for a living.
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Bird song ID
Hear a bird rather than see it? Record a sound bite and BirdScribe suggests the species, matched to your region by GPS. You confirm the ID, and a heard-only bird goes into the checklist the way eBird expects.
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Pocket Mode
Arm it and pocket the phone screen-on. Stray touches are ignored, the screen stays awake, and your headset button still starts a recording. Eyes up the whole walk.
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Nothing gets lost
Voice notes for the trip diary stay private on your phone. If the app is interrupted mid-session, it offers to pick up right where you stopped, birds intact. Every trip ends with a summary and a pin map of your sightings.
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eBird-ready export
One tap builds the eBird CSV, with species names checked against eBird's taxonomy before the file is written. Proven against real eBird imports, not just the spec.
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Export a session to eBird
From the end of a walk to a checklist in your eBird account, using the 15 minute handoff link.