Bird Journal

Bluebird Technology

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About this app

Bird Journal is the best way to record, explore and share your bird & wildlife observations and experiences. It has thousands of users across the world, and now brings its full power to Android phones and tablets in one beautifully native app.

Start keeping a record of your bird & wildlife observations now with a free account.

RECORD ANYTHING
Enter 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 RECORDS
Enjoy looking back through your data with beautiful entry reports, species lists, graphs*, maps*, reports* and a redesigned photo gallery. Search instantly by date, species, location and more.

POWERFUL TOOLS, NOW ON MOBILE
Import and export your records, replace species across your data, and build your own custom checklists, taxonomies and synonym packs — all for the first time on your phone or tablet.

SHARE YOUR RECORDS
Export, print and share records, species lists and photos straight to friends and other apps. eBird and BirdTrack systems are fully supported, so you can conveniently contribute to conservation efforts.

ACCESS ANYWHERE
Access 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 FOREVER
Never lose your data. Everything added to Bird Journal is safely and securely stored in Bird Journal's cloud. If you lose your device or it malfunctions, simply sign back in to your account to carry on from where you left off.

BRING YOUR DATA
Get started quickly by importing existing records from any other system or app. eBird, BirdTrack and Wildlife Recorder records can be imported directly.

* Requires an upgrade to a Bird Journal Premium account.

Ratings and reviews

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.

Wanted to use this initially for my life list, but it's no good for retrospective sightings (I have sightings from the late 50's). Update - 1st August 2026 - on reflection, yes it deserves more than 2 stars, it has far more depth to it than I at first thought. However, like other bird apps, if you're ancient, and want to input your life list using the correct dates, it's pretty impossible to backtrack the calendar to the 60's or 70's, so for me it's not that useful.

I've had this app for many years, and it has served me well. The latest updates have been fantastic. What you get from the desktop version, is now more or less all in the App. I can now add photos directly from Google photos, check locations and access all graphs. It's a 👍 from me

What’s new

• Your main screens — Summary, Entries, Gallery, Species and Locations — now sit in a bar along the bottom, always one tap away
• Changes to an observation apply as you make them, and deleting one really deletes it
• More accurate geotagging, and your own locations now come first in Nearby
• Fixes to filters, species browsing and list counts