Flexible Report Designer

Build your own reports from pre-existing templates. Create and save your own templates for future use. Specify font colors, size, type, etc. Multple columns and formats. Print reports or save to text or PDF format.

eBird Worldwide Sightings Search

Search the eBird Worldwide Sightings database from Birder’s Diary when planning your next Outing or Trip. Know what birds are being seen for any location in the World and if any of those would be Lifers for you! A whole new way to plan trips and outings. Find out if any new Lifers are being seen in your area each time you start Birder’s Diary.

Attach Photos to your Sightings

Attach photos or any media to your sightings in Birder’s Diary. View or edit your sightings using the built-in photo viewer.

Family Report

Interactive HTML report. 

• How many Orders/Families/Genera/Species have I seen at any location or World; what am I missing?
• Drill down to different levels.
• Color-coded in order to see which levels have some, all or no sightings attached.

User-defined Data

You have the ability to define unlimited data elements to capture exactly all the data you want with each sighting. A very important feature. You can use this user-defined data everywhere in Birder’s Diary; e.g. filtering sightings and reporting.

Abundance Charts

Single species and multiple species abundance charts showing your data with filtering.

Sightings Entry

Whether using Keyboard or Checklist entry modes or importing from your mobile app, you want to spend more time in the field and less time entering data. Birder’s Diary is rated the fasted entry in the industry. Multiple entry modes and SmartSearch data entryis the fastest available.

All Your Data at your Fingertips

The main Birder’s Diary window contains a snapshot of your Latest Outings, Latest Sightings, Latest Photos, User-defined Graphs and Charts and User-defined Lifer Bars showing your counts for any location in the World. It’s your starting point each time you open Birder’s Diary.

Import and Export

Birder’s Diary supports importing and exporting data from most all data sources. Complete integration built-in for eBird import/export. Ability to import data from any of the various mobile apps.

Lifer Notifications

Receive notifications of World, Annual or Location lifers when entering or importing your sightings.

Sightings Comparison Tool

Compare any two subsets of Sightings in your database to show what was in common and what was different. Very powerful tool that is one of the most often used features.

• What did you and your partner see on a recent trip? What did you see in common and what did each see that the other did not?
• What warblers did I see this year that I didn’t last year?
• What species have I seen in my county versus another county?

Many Taxonomic Lists

Aside from both Clements and the IOC taxonomic lists for all the birds of the World, there is also the ABA and AOU regional lists. Also, Mammals of the World, All the Vascular Plants of North America, Dragonflies, Butterflies, Moths, Fishes, Reptiles, etc.

Checklist Editor

An editor for associating Things with Locations. With this you can setup custom checklists for your backyard, local park, etc. Or modify existing associations.

Alias Names Editor

An editor that allows you to assign alias names to any Thing in your database. You can configure such that Birder’s Diary recognizes Snowbird as Dark-eyed Junco.