Birder scanning a misty pine forest through binoculars
Bird Tripping · by The Birding Game

Scout it. Plan it. Bird it. Keep it.

The birding trip planner that combines eBird hotspot data, community ratings, live field sessions and a real itinerary builder — then files every bird you see into your life list.

10,000+
hotspots mapped
~10,800
species worldwide
Live
eBird sightings
Community
ratings & photos

Three tools that hand off to each other.

Research feeds the itinerary. The itinerary feeds the field session. The field session feeds your life list.

01 · Discover

Every hotspot, mapped and ranked

Search a city, zip or country and see eBird hotspots on a map color-coded by species count. Sort by most checklists, most species or closest to you, and browse recent or rare sightings for the whole area.

  • Live + historical eBird sightings
  • Rare-bird filter for the area
  • Species finder: where a target bird is showing up now
02 · Trips

Wanderlog-style planning, built for birders

Stack hotspots, lodging, food and stops into color-coded days with drive time and mileage between every leg. Search new areas without losing your plan, and keep costs and notes in the same place.

  • Collapsible, renameable, color-coded days
  • Lodging, expenses, notes, checklists & packing lists
  • Paste a booking email and let AI fill the itinerary
03 · Birding

Live sessions your friends can follow

Start a session, track your route on the map, log birds with typo-tolerant nearby-species search, and attach photos to any sighting. Share a live link so others can watch the walk unfold.

  • GPS route tracking with a live share link
  • Photos attached to individual sightings
  • Link the session to an eBird hotspot

Everything else in the field kit.

The small things that make a birding day run smoothly.

Community hotspot ratings

Rate birds, parking, restrooms, bugs, trails and accessibility. Reviews and target species get thumbs up or down from other birders.

Facility & bird photos

Upload photos in two buckets — what the site looks like, and what's flying there — so nobody arrives blind.

Species finder

Pick a bird, see the closest recent sightings and the hotspots where you're most likely to actually connect with it.

Fast checklists

Location, date, time and species — with nearby-species search and fuzzy matching so a missing apostrophe never slows you down.

Send to eBird

Turn any checklist or live session into an eBird Record Format file, validated against the official taxonomy.

Life list & milestone badges

Every bird flows into one life list with first-seen date and place, county/state/country filters, and a badge every 100 species.

Expenses that stay put

Track what the trip actually costs alongside the itinerary instead of in a separate spreadsheet.

Notes everywhere

A notepad, checklists and packing lists per trip, plus a note on any single itinerary item.

Plan together

Invite friends to a trip so the itinerary, lodging and costs stay in sync for the whole group.

Illustrated lists

Bird and destination thumbnails sourced from Wikipedia make long lists scannable at a glance.

Drive times built in

Mileage and time between stops — and between days — so your plan matches the daylight you have.

Search anywhere, anytime

Pan the map and hit “Search this area” to pull fresh hotspots wherever curiosity takes you.

How a trip comes together

  1. 01

    Scout

    Search a region and compare hotspots by species, checklists and community rating.

  2. 02

    Plan

    Drop hotspots into days with lodging, expenses and drive times that actually add up.

  3. 03

    Bird

    Run a live session or log a checklist, photos and all, while friends follow along.

  4. 04

    Keep

    Birds land in your life list, badges unlock, and you can push it all to eBird.

Your next lifer is one search away.

Try a city, a park, or a country code.