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Birda - Connect with nature in minutes

Connect with nature in minutes

Take a walk, look out of the window and log the birds that you see. Feel good about those little connections to nature.
Birda - Discover the joy of birding

Discover the joy of birding

Find new birding spots, see more birds, share and celebrate with a like-minded community of nature lovers.
Play your part in saving nature

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 achievements. Look back over your sightings and plan your next adventure.

Find & ID

Struggling to find the perfect birding spot? Browse our interactive map and data from over 1 billion sightings to find new places to go birding. Use Birda’s in-built species guide or get help from the community to identify the birds 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 to new heights with all kinds of friendly birding challenges from Big Years to photography challenges. A 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? Upload a photo of your unidentified sightings and our 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.

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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?

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