Project FeederWatch

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

About this app

Do you feed birds? You can report what you see for science. Project FeederWatch, a joint project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Birds Canada, monitors winter feeder-bird populations in North America. The FeederWatch Mobile App is a new way for Project FeederWatch members to contribute their bird counts.

Sign in to:
•Report birds that visit your count site in winter (US and Canada only)
•Track your sighting statistics in real time
•Access your archive of past counts from all years
•Contribute to North America’s largest database on feeder birds
•Find out what food and feeder types work best for the birds overwintering near you
•Identify and learn about feeder birds

FeederWatch Mobile automatically syncs with the web version for seamless multi-platform support. Your data become immediately available for scientific research, education, and conservation. Thank you for helping birds!

Ratings and reviews

App is non-functional since latest update. You can add birds to a two-day count but when you try to select the AM PM data, number of count hours, etc., those items don't work so you are unable to complete and submit a count. This app worked fine for me last year but as of now Cornell is providing us with a useless tool for bird counts they charge us $ to participate in. Not a great PR model.

I have not used this app the last 2 seasons...it was so buggy and useless. I thought I would try it out this season. I made my counts on a notepad and thought I could use my phone to enter. I can't even put in yesterday's date...or any date besides the 2016‐17 season. There isn't a way to "clean up" old counts that I ended up using a computer to enter data from years past. I didn't even get a chance to see if the counting aspect is still glitchy. Uninstall again!

The new interface isn't as good as the old one. Everything is too big, icons, selection buttons, etc. Maybe this change was made to be more accessible but it would be nice if there was a scale option. it takes forever to scroll through the bird list now because each entry is huge.

What’s new

Bug fixes and performance improvements