Burd is a birding community built around real sightings log what you see, browse a living field guide, follow local birders, and celebrate rare finds with people who get it.
Burd is where your sightings become part of a true story. A log that surfaces from real places, a journal of what you've found, and a field guide that grows with every entry. Whether you're chasing a rarity or noting the robin in your yard, Burd keeps it simple, social, and rooted in the field.
Two powerful new scanners are coming to Burd — bringing real-time identification of every animal, tree, nest, and egg you encounter in the field.
Animal Scanner
01 — Animal Scanner
Point your phone at any animal — on land, in water, or in the air — and Burd's Animal Scanner identifies it in real time. Beyond birds, Animal Scanner extends Burd's signature identification engine across the entire animal kingdom.
Point your camera at any animal for instant identification.
Identify species by their calls, songs, and ambient sounds.
Live bounding boxes and confidence scores as you move.
Mammals, reptiles, insects, amphibians, fish, and more.
02 — Habitat Scanner
Wildlife leaves traces long before it appears. Habitat Scanner lets you scan the environment itself — trees, nests, eggs, burrows — to understand which species live there, breed there, and pass through.
Identify any tree, shrub, or plant from bark, leaf, or silhouette.
Determine which species built a nest by its structure and materials.
Identify eggs by size, colour, and speckle pattern.
Recognize animal dens, burrows, and shelter structures.
Habitat Scanner
Both scanners draw on Burd's continuously updated identification models, trained on millions of verified field observations.
5,400+ species
3,700+ species
12,000+ species
2,100+ species
Animal Scanner and Habitat Scanner are launching later this year. Leave your email and we'll notify you the moment they're available.
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