Photography

A photo library built for birders.

If you're a photographer, Yearbirder can be your primary app for viewing and managing your bird photos. Filter your photos the way you filter your sightings, so you can instantly see your photos of a species, a county, a time of year, a rating, or any combination you choose.

Yearbirder Photos browser showing a grid of rated bird photo thumbnails

Browse your photos by any filter — here, thumbnails sorted and rated the way a birder thinks.

Import that does the matching for you

Yearbirder helps you import your photos by analyzing their file name, date, and time to suggest matching checklists and species automatically. Confirm or adjust the suggestions, add a rating and notes, and your photos are catalogued alongside the sightings they belong to.

  • Automatic checklist and species suggestions from file name and timestamp
  • Assign a rating and notes as you import
  • A single media catalog keeps photos tied to the right sighting
Yearbirder Add Photos screen matching photos to checklists and species

View, zoom, and rate

Browse your photos as thumbnails, then open any one in an intuitive enlargement view with full-screen viewing and easy zooming down to the pixel level. Rate your photos so you can sort and filter to your best work in an instant.

  • Browse by any filter, such as New World Sparrows photographed in Boulder County last spring
  • Full-screen viewing and pixel-level zoom
  • Rate your photos for easy sorting and filtering
  • Species Gallery: your best-rated photo per species in taxonomic order
  • Filter by camera body, lens, aperture, shutter speed, focal length, and ISO
Yearbirder photo enlargement view with details pane

Your photos on the map

Every geotagged photo can be plotted on an interactive map — hover to preview the thumbnail, click to enlarge. Play your photos back in sequence on an animated map to watch, for example, your progress photographing American Kestrels across the country.

  • Geolocated photos plotted as pins with thumbnail hover previews
  • Animated photo-sequence map that plays your photos back over time
  • Create slideshows from any filter of your sightings
Yearbirder geolocated photos map with thumbnail preview pins

Charts, and batch renaming

Turn your photo collection into charts — how many species you've photographed, your year-to-date pace, and your totals by family. And when your files need tidying, batch-rename them using species name, date, time, and location components in a single pass.

  • Photo charts: totals, year-to-date, accumulation, and pie by family
  • Batch-rename files from species name, date, time, and location
  • Filter every chart by the same dimensions as your photos
Yearbirder photo charts showing totals and year-to-date pace

Make Yearbirder your photo library

Free and open-source, for macOS, Windows and Linux.