THE MISSION
Catalog your sightings.
Discover new species.
Find more birds.
A modern photo-logging system to catalog every species you've spotted, track your journey through habitats and regions, and challenge yourself to complete them all.
Observe
Upload and organize your sightings around the habitats and species guides that define birding.
Catalog
See your species list grow over time. Your collection tells the story of every field trip.
Discover
Track species you haven’t spotted yet. Every guide shows you what’s next in your area.
Challenge
Take on full species completions. All raptors. Every warbler. How far can you go?
WHAT YOU GET
Tools built for the field.
Work through the field.
Species by species.
Bird Log is built around the species guides that define the hobby. Raptors. Songbirds. Shorebirds. Waterfowl. Pick a group and build your sighting log one species at a time.
Every sighting updates your progress. The species you haven't spotted yet are still there, waiting. Come back to the same bird a year later with better glass and you have a record of how far you've come.
Drop your photos.
We'll do the rest.
No reference images to scroll through, no manual searching. Quick ID identifies species from your photos and catalogs them automatically.
Switching from another platform? Batch upload years of photos from eBird, Merlin, your NAS, or any folder on your computer. Quick ID identifies and catalogs everything — your entire collection migrated in minutes, not months.
Migrate from any platform — batch upload your full library
AI identifies species so you never search manually
Upload from NAS, cloud storage, or local folders
One tap to confirm and add to your collection
Know your gear.
Every detail logged.
Save your binoculars, camera, lenses, and field kit configurations. Bird Log tracks your full setup for every outing so you know what works.
Pick from popular presets or enter custom gear. Switch between setups in one tap — backyard kit, birding trip, or photography rig.
Popular binocular & camera presets
Multiple saved configurations
Switch setups in one tap
Tagged to every sighting
See what others
are spotting.
The Field is a shared gallery of real sightings from real birders. No ads, no algorithm, no noise. Just bird photos from people who care about the craft.
Follow other birders, explore their collections, and discover species from every habitat.
EXPLORE THE FIELD
Track where you've been.
Map every sighting.
Sightings puts every observation on a map. See where you've spotted each species, track your birding routes, and discover new locations based on what others are finding.
Your sighting log grows with every outing. Pin locations, add notes, and build a geographic record of your birding life that gets richer over time.
Pin sightings to an interactive map
Track species by location and season
See your coverage grow over time
Discover new birding spots nearby
WHY SWITCH
Already using iNaturalist, eBird, or Birda?
Your bird photography is breathtaking. It deserves more than a research database form or a social feed that buries it in an hour. We built Bird Log because the tools that exist work — but the experience hasn’t kept up.
Facebook replaced MySpace. Strava replaced training logs. Apple proved that design wins. The birding community deserves the same leap forward.
SEE HOW WE COMPARE →ORIGIN
Bird Log grew from years of backyard birding and realizing there was no good way to keep track of sightings over time. A simple notebook wasn't enough — you wanted photos, dates, locations, weather, and a way to share discoveries with other birders. So we built a platform for that.
The hobby deserves more than a photo dump. It deserves a system that understands what a species guide is, why revisiting the same habitat matters, and how satisfying it is to watch a species list grow over months and years.
Bird Log is built on that instinct: real birds, real sightings, real people who care about the craft.
Observe. Catalog. Discover. Challenge.
CATALOGING PLATFORMS FOR NATURE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Bird Log is part of a family of field logging platforms built for people who look closely at the world around them. Track birds, the sky, and the ocean — all in one place.
