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Find some time.Find some birds.

Log the birds you see, even with no signal, keep your lists, and see what other birders are finding. Mostly, enjoy the birding.

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You come back lighter.

Some mornings you find the bird. Other mornings it never shows, and it rains the whole way. Either way, an hour outside, looking and listening, on your own or with people you like, does you good. The fresh air and the walking help, and whatever the week piled on you weighs less on the way home. And when the bird does turn up, you enjoy it more for all the mornings it did not.

What the app does.

  • A Cape Robin-Chat pinned on the map at Kirstenbosch, where it was seen, as a sighting is added.

    Add a sighting

    Log the bird where you saw it. It works with no signal and catches up when you are back in range.

  • The feed, opening on two birders' evening of atlassing in Observatory, Cape Town, with their route on the map.

    See what friends find

    Your feed shows what the birders you follow are seeing this morning.

  • The explore map around Kirstenbosch, pinned with this week's sightings, and the latest species listed below it.

    Explore the map

    Every sighting lands on one shared map. Zoom into a patch to see what has turned up there lately.

  • A birder's profile showing their sightings, lifers, photos, lifelist and lists.

    Keep your lists

    Your lifelist and every list beside it, with the records worth coming back to.

With Membership

What membership includes

Membership helps you name a bird when you are not sure what it was. Record its call, narrow it down by colour and size, or upload a photo on the web, and Bïndo suggests the species.

  • Bird Call ID's answers for a recorded call: Bush Blackcap at 99%, Hadeda Ibis at 98% and Cape Robin-Chat, each with a button to add it.

    Bird Call ID

    Record a call and identify the bird.

  • Voice Add has heard Hadeda Ibis and offers one button to add the sighting.

    Voice Add

    Say a bird's name to log it, without stopping to type.

  • The bird traits filter set to red, narrowing the list to the Southern Red Bishop, Southern Double-collared Sunbird and African Oystercatcher.

    Bird traits

    Filter by colour, size, habitat and behaviour.

  • The add sighting list on its Next tab, led by Cape White-eye, Southern Double-collared Sunbird and Olive Thrush.

    Next Bird

    The bird you are most likely to add next, wherever you are.

Conservation starts with noticing.

Learn the birds on your street and you start noticing the habitat that holds them. Send a full protocol atlas card while you are out there and the morning becomes something researchers can use.

Beginners keeping a garden list and atlassers filling pentads are on the same map, counted the same way. Their sightings come in from suburban gardens, the Kalahari and the kayak pelagics off Cape Point, each logged as it happened.

2 million sightings logged by 3 200 birders across Southern Africa.

Your records are yours to take anywhere.

Bring across the years you logged in another app, take your records out again when you want them, and share what you find with the birders who follow you. When you choose to, the same morning goes to SABAP2 as a full protocol card and joins the atlas that conservation planning in South Africa is built on. SABAP2 is the first project we work with this way, and we plan to add more.

  • Atlas straight to SABAP2

    Full protocol cards submit from the app while you are still in the pentad. The morning counts twice: once for your list, once for the atlas.

    Free

  • Bring your BirdLasser list

    Import what you have already logged elsewhere. Imported sightings count towards your lifelist, and stay out of challenge leaderboards so nobody can upload their way to a prize.

    Member

  • Take your records with you

    Send your sightings on to eBird or BirdLasser from the app, free. Members can take the whole lot out as a file on the web whenever they want, without asking us first.

    Free

From the field

All field notes

Become a Member.

A small team has run Bïndo for five years without charging for the birding, and it costs real money to keep up. Members cover that, and get the deeper tools: Bird Call ID and Voice Add, Next Bird and targets, their own Private Areas, proper stats, and the whole of Bïndo on the web. Finding birds, logging them and keeping your lists stay free.

What membership includes