Made by humans.
Who actually go outside.
This isn't a faceless app farm. It's one bloke, a bird feeder, and a son who needed an excuse to look up from the path on dog walks.
I'm Eddie. I built this because I couldn't stop identifying the birds on my garden feeder and I thought — if I'm spending this much time on it, there should be a game.
It started with a blue tit. Then a goldfinch showed up and I was absolutely done for. My son started pointing at birds on our dog walks before he'd reliably point at cars. I'd call that a win.
[Your specific feeder story and dog-walk moment goes here — the more specific and real the better. A single vivid detail beats a paragraph of generality.]
I'm not a professional birder. I still can't always tell a willow warbler from a chiffchaff by song. But I look up now, which I didn't before, and that's the whole point.
A real bird identification game with real stats. The numbers on the cards — heft, wingspan, max age — are sourced from published biology data. A wren really does weigh 9 grams. A swift really does spend most of its life airborne. These facts are not decoration. They're the whole game.
The AI names your photo so you don't have to flip through a field guide on your phone in the rain. The card you get is yours because you actually saw the bird. No shortcuts, no wild-card purchases, no fake rarity. You went outside. That's the moat.
We're building towards a conservation giving model — part of what members pay will go directly to UK bird conservation. We're working through the proper channels to make that a formal, advertised arrangement. When it's locked in, you'll hear about it.
Until then: the app exists to get more people looking at birds. If that's worth something to you, a membership keeps it running.
Found a bug? Got a bird you think should be in the game? Think the stats are wrong for the curlew? (They might be — AVONET isn't perfect.) Come and argue about it.