Birding analytics and tools for your eBird workflow

Weather & Tide Lookup

Paste an eBird checklist ID and get a clean, ready-to-paste weather summary: temperature, wind, humidity, dew point, sunrise and sunset, and the moon phase on night checklists, plus the historical tide from the nearest NOAA station. Current shows the live weather and tide for where you are, Predict forecasts both for a place and time you choose, and a backlog lists your recent checklists that still have no weather block, so you can work down the ones you missed. Each action keeps its own checklist target as you widen or page the list.

Statistics

A full analytics dashboard built from your own data: life-list totals and growth, firsts and milestones, temporal and geographic patterns, effort, data quality, breeding stats, deep media statistics, and a few playful Frivolous Lists. Two off-by-default count rules in the tab header follow eBird's own rules for what counts: Count all forms decides whether forms that leave the species in doubt (a spuh, a slash, a hybrid) are counted, and Count escapees follows eBird's life-list rule for exotics (Naturalized and Provisional count, Escapee does not), naming every bird it leaves out. Both are per-session, resetting on relaunch.

The Geographic Stats map carries the same Counties overlay, shaded by species or by checklists, with numbers that match the county tables beside it, and the Map Explorer's too while Count all forms is off (the Map Explorer always applies the countable-species rule). A Projects section reports which eBird projects your checklists were submitted to: nothing is sent until you press Check projects, the section states the exact cost first, it can be stopped and resumed, and every tally shows how many checklists it was drawn from.

A Weather section reads back the weather blocks SnowRaven and RainCrow have been writing into your checklist comments since the first release. It shows how your outings distribute across sky, temperature, wind and day versus night, the average species per checklist in each band with the same bands' average time out beside it, and, for any bird you pick, the skies and temperatures you have it on. It states what fraction of your checklists it covers before it draws anything, keeps a band you have never birded visible as a zero, declines to average a band with too few checklists, and never predicts or ranks. It is built from the backup you already loaded, so it makes no lookup and works offline.

The bird's own page carries the other half of it. A Weather card on Species Detail shows the skies and temperatures you have recorded the selected bird in, out of the same derivation the Statistics section paints from, so the two always agree. There is no picker on it: you are already looking at a bird. It opens with one number against two different wholes, your weather-block checklists and the checklists you have that bird on, and nothing divides them. A bird with too few weather-block checklists gets a plain sentence and no chart rather than a confident-looking distribution, which is the ordinary outcome for most species. It never predicts or ranks, and like the section it reads only the backup you already loaded, so it makes no lookup and works offline.

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Multimedia

Your life list as a media checklist: photo, audio, and video coverage for every species, so you can see at a glance what you still need to capture. Filter by sex and age (pull up just your juveniles, or the males of a dimorphic species), with counts and links straight to the matching media in your Macaulay Library.

Named Birds

Give an individual bird a name in your eBird species comment with a [name:…] tag (like [name:Winky]), and SnowRaven gathers every sighting of that individual: its species, when you first and last saw it, how long you've followed it and which two dates that measures, each checklist with its location, a map of everywhere that bird has been seen, and its own top locations. A timeline in each card puts that bird's sightings in time, and one strip at the bottom of the tab gives every named bird a labelled lane on a shared axis, so you can see which birds you were following when. Press a mark, or step through with the arrow keys, and a line beneath the strip names that sighting's date and place. One switch moves the far end of every span from the bird's last sighting to today, so the gap since you last saw it becomes visible rather than inferred. With your Macaulay Library export saved, each individual also gathers its own photos, audio, and video as inline players, matched by the same tag. Prefer no inline players anywhere? Turn on Disable embedded media in Settings; direct Macaulay Library links stay available.

List Comparer

Compare two life lists to see shared and unique species, or compare two individual checklists side by side: counts with the higher total emphasized, breeding codes, photo, audio, and video indicators, effort details, checklist and species comments, and side-by-side weather and tide for each checklist.

Search anything by name

Press Cmd-K or Ctrl-K anywhere in the app, type a few letters, and press Enter. Search reaches every tab you have visible and every species in your own eBird backup, matching the common name and the scientific name at once, so calypte finds Anna's Hummingbird, and a few letters plus Enter open Species Detail on the bird you were thinking of. Arrow keys move through the results, Enter opens, Escape closes and hands focus back to the control you opened it from, or to the main content when that control has gone away. There is a Search control in the navigation too, at every window width, so it is there on a phone as well.

It makes no network request and saves nothing, so it works offline and without an API key. If you have not saved a backup yet, or a saved one will not load, it says which of the two it is and keeps taking you to tabs regardless.