Bird Journal
Start keeping a record of your bird & wildlife observations now with a free account.
RECORD ANYTHINGEnter bird & wildlife observations, photos*, habitat and more with customisable data entry. Bird Journal's growing library contains hundreds of checklists and taxonomies, with over 100,000 species and subspecies worldwide.
EXPLORE YOUR RECORDSEnjoy looking back through your data with beautiful entry reports, species lists, graphs**, maps**, reports*
* & photos. Search instantly by date, species, location & more.
SHARE YOUR RECORDSExport or print records and species lists for use anywhere*. eBird and BirdTrack systems are fully supported, so you can conveniently contribute to conservation efforts*.
ACCESS ANYWHEREAccess and enter your records on any supported device or computer. Data is stored on each device, meaning you always have access even when on the move, in the field or abroad.
REMEMBER FOREVERNever lose your data. Everything added to Bird Journal is safely and securely stored in Bird Journal's cloud. If you lose your device or your computer malfunctions, simply sign back in to your account to carry on from where you left off.
BRING YOUR DATAGet started quickly by importing existing records from any other system or app*. eBird, BirdTrack & Wildlife Recorder records can be imported directly.
* Requires the free desktop version of Bird Journal.*
* Requires an upgrade to a Bird Journal Premium account.
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Reviews (20)
I love this app. I only wish I had more time to go bird watching so I could use it more. There is a small learning curve but once you have the basics down it is pretty easy to use. I haven't even begun to customize it to the perfect record keeping log. I recommend that anyone thinking about downloading the app to not hesitate and do so. If it seems slightly confusing at first just keep trying because once you are used to it you will be happy you stuck with it.
Very comprehensive global lists and taxonomies, but very cumbersome interface and (most importantly) very unstable. After one hour of use, Bird Journal crashed five times on my Galaxy S8 with more than enough memory available and few other apps running. Am uninstalling.
Does what it says. I do think the ios version is more polished but have been using the app now on both apple and android platforms for 3 years and very happy. Quick and easy to add your sightings and the accompanying website has some decent reports to look at your data.
I've only just started using Bird Journal, so I'm learning. My bird lists are usually on scraps of paper, so this is better! I'm looking for a help section because I tend to start looking for an answer in the middle of an entry. For example What does Highlight mean? Also is there a way to search for a bird's name by its general name first, rather that the specific name first? I think of those names as last and first names.
My Dad uses this app on his phone so I decided to use it too except on my tablet. However, my Dad's app tells him when birds are "year firsts" or "lifers" whereas mine doesn't. Any reason why this is the case? Otherwise really happy with the app.
Doesnt seem to work on my galaxy tab S3 when I record a species and save it doesnt do so on records and wont let me put times dates etc so waste of a potentially good app....
Getting more fluent at using this app and the more I use it the more I like it. Good record keeping tool but I cannot find a way to export the records.
Was more than happy with until I changed my phone and now I can't get past entering the site name. UPDATE bug has now been fixed and I'm happy again
Easy and intuitive to use. Versatile across platforms.
Makes it to complicated to just select a bird. Looking for something simple that works.
I can't use it because when I go to the app my phone (Xiaomi Redmi) screen become just black. The app doesn't load.
Great app and no need to update database on main computer.
It worked for me. Would be great to have photos to check against.
Terrible, nothing uploaded.
Sadly no pictures to help with identification
I should be able to create whatever password I want.
Rubbish,no lists like I thought it may have
When i downloaded the app it was blank
I'd give a higher rating if lists were more up to date.
I've had to downgrade this as I'm starting to have serious issues with the names, changes to the names and some new names that should exist but don't. This is causing frustration and confusion and just when I thought id found a reliable scorce to log in my sightings! Otherwise its simple enough to use and navigate, but can prove a little technical to the unwary. An excellent way of keeping all those important sightings (or would be if it wasn't for the name issue) I would have recommended this.