FeatherDex Features

Every species in your collection gets a round badge cut from one of your own photos and framed in the FeatherDex scalloped ring. Scroll your badges and you’ll see your birding life at a glance.

Each badge can show a date pill with your lifer date (First encounter) or your last-seen date (Last encounter), whichever you choose. Those dates belong to the species, not the photo. Set them yourself or import them from eBird. Add an older or newer photo and the date slides to match. Your photo metadata is never changed.

FeatherDex picks a badge photo for you, and the frame editor lets you make it yours: drag to position, pinch to zoom, and twist to rotate. Reflect the photo, choose where the date sits, or open precision controls to fine-tune. You can swap in a different photo anytime, and when a stronger photo of that species shows up later, FeatherDex can suggest it as a better badge. You decide.

Bird photographers know the burst: twenty nearly identical frames of the same bird on the same branch. FeatherDex can stack similar photos taken close together, so your species page shows one tile with a count instead of twenty.

Make your own stacks too, choose the cover photo, and change how similar photos need to be or how far apart they can be in time. Stacking only changes what you see. Nothing is deleted.

FeatherDex tracks Seen and Heard separately for each species, alongside the photos you’ve taken. A heard-only owl at night and a perfect daylight photo are different moments, and your list keeps them that way.

Seen can come from your own photos, you can set or confirm it yourself, or it can come from an eBird import. Each species record keeps its own first and last encounter dates. You don’t need an eBird account to use FeatherDex.

Achievements sums up your birding life and your collection, year by year. Then try a filter like Seen but Not Photographed. It’s a ready-made list of photo goals for your next outing.

Some of the best birding days are shared ones: a morning out with photography friends, a family hike, a trip where someone else got the shot of the day. FeatherDex lets you keep those photos in your collection too, without counting them as your own.

Add a photo a friend took, then credit it to them as the photographer. Their photos stay in your library as moments you shared, and you can sort and organize by who took them. Only your own photos count toward your Seen and Photographed totals, so your life list stays honest. Turn on Count unspecified photos as mine, and any photo without a photographer counts as yours.

Not sure what a bird is yet? Mark it Unknown and come back to it later.