Your bird sightings are more than a check mark.
Feathers helps you keep the time, place, notes, media, and meaning behind each sighting.
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A birding session, from first sighting to lasting record.
What is Feathers?
Feathers is a cloud-based birding journal that captures the full context of every sighting. Document time, precise location, notes, tags, weather, media, and more in a web-based dashboard with an iOS app for capture in the field.
Read more about the philosophy behind Feathers.•Browse the blog
Explore use cases: Birding journal•eBird companion•Birding data management
It's all in the details.
Log precise locations and timestamps for each sighting, so you never forget exactly when and in what tree you saw your first Cerulean Warbler.
Mark your territory.
Draw geofences to create automatic yard, neighborhood, and custom area lists.
Get to know each species.
Build up species profiles that provide snapshots of your relationship with each species throughout your birding journey.
Track what matters.
Create custom tags for sightings and sessions to document what's meaningful to you.
Watch patterns unfold.
Learn more from your own sightings through shareable graphics and charts.
Stay connected.
Contribute to citizen science by seamlessly syncing sessions and sightings to eBird — Feathers complements eBird, it doesn’t replace it.
From the blog
Explore the thinking behind Feathers
Feb 20, 2026 · 6 min read
A sighting-first approach to bird tracking
How Feathers came to be and why detailed sightings sit at the center of the product.
Mar 27, 2026 · 4 min read
Why Feathers works with eBird instead of replacing it
How Feathers complements eBird with detailed sighting records, personal context, and a richer birding journal.
