Bird identification made easy

Spotting a bird and immediately knowing its name is the dream, but identifying a bird you don’t know is hard. Whether you’re a seasoned birder exploring foreign shores, or a beginner honing your skills in the backyard, you can use Birda’s AI powered or community-powered bird identification to identify birds quickly – it’s like having a personal bird ID coach everywhere you go.

Instant bird ID from your photos

Birda’s AI-powered photo ID tool instantly identifies bird species from your photos, even blurry or obscured ones. Designed to continuously improve as the Birda community grows, it’s the perfect complement to community-driven bird identification. Not sure about your bird ID? Confirm it quickly with Birda AI or ask the community for extra peace of mind.

Image of AI Bird Photo Identification in the Birda App
Birda's Text AI Powered Bird Identification Features

Describe the bird, get an ID

Birda’s AI Text Identification feature helps you identify birds quickly using detailed natural-language descriptions, no photo needed. Simply describe physical traits, behaviors, and habitat, and Birda instantly provides accurate, location-specific matches. Integrated seamlessly into Birda’s field guide and sighting tools, this feature supports birds from North America, Europe, Southern Africa, and Australia. By combining local species data and advanced AI classification, Birda makes bird identification effortless and intuitive, delivering expert-level insights with simple, Google-like searches.

Your built-in bird ID companion

Identifying bird species is quicker and simpler with our integrated bird species guide. Now you don’t need to switch between different apps or books to log and identify your bird sightings. Just tap the species picture in your sighting list, and you’ll directly access the guide for that specific bird – it’s an easy way to identify a bird you’ve spotted and make sure that it’s really the right one.

Birda's Species Guide Identification Features to identify a bird you don't know
Birda's Community Powered Bird Identification Features

Bird ID help from our community

There is power in numbers. Our friendly community, filled with birdwatching expertise, spans more than 189 countries making it an extraordinary source of Human Intelligence (HI, not AI!) for identifying birds.

To identify a bird, all you need to do is share an image of the bird you can’t identify, then sit back and get bird ID suggestions from birders around the world! It’s a great way to learn faster too. Being told what bird you’ve seen is great, but getting tips and tricks to help you identify it again is better.

What birders say about our bird identification features