Yearbirder is a free desktop app that lets you explore your personal eBird sightings through sortable lists, charts, graphs, and interactive maps — all filtered any way you choose. If you're a photographer, it also organizes your bird photos alongside your sightings, so you can browse, rate, and map them the way a birder thinks.
American Kestrel
eBird is built for collecting and sharing sightings across the global birding community. Yearbirder is built for exploring your own personal sightings in depth. Create every manner of lists, compare two lists side by side, spot patterns in monthly phenology charts, view totals, and generate Big Reports that pull together your species, dates, locations, and checklists in a single view.
Yearbirder is also a photo management tool built the way birders think. Link your JPEG photos to your eBird sightings, filter them as you would your sightings, or also by camera, lens, aperture, or rating. Quickly display all your photos of a species, a time period, or location. Browse a Species Gallery showing your best shot of each species in taxonomic order. Geotagged photos appear as clickable pins on an interactive map. Batch-rename files by species name, date, and location in seconds.
Every checklist you've ever submitted becomes data you can sort, filter, and drill into. You can generate any variety of lists: county lists, state lists, date lists, lists of checklists, lists of locations — all filterable however you see fit. You can generate custom lists, like every sparrow you've seen on an April day in San Francisco County between 2008 and 2017. Or create a list of every location where you've seen a Western Kingbird. Date Totals shows your species counts by year, month, and individual date. Location Totals breaks down your counts by region, country, state, county, and named location. The Big Report pulls it all together in a tabbed view — species, dates, locations, and checklists at once.
Numbers alone don't tell the story. Yearbirder turns your data into charts that make patterns visible at a glance — from how fast you found new species each year to which locations dominate your checklist count.
See where you've been, how long you've spent there, and what you've found. Every map is zoomable and pannable, generated from your own eBird data.
Yearbirder reads your photo EXIF data and links each image to the closest eBird checklist automatically. Browse and filter by every dimension that matters to a bird photographer.
