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DESIGNERS OF SPECIALIZED BIRDING JOURNEYS ACROSS BOTSWANA
Targeting Key Species, Habitats & Seasons
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Track sightings, compete with friends, and contribute to conservation, all from one powerful app built for the field.
Bindo is a fully offline-first birding app that lets you record sightings anywhere, anytime, even without signal. Everything syncs automatically when you reconnect. Explore nearby sightings on an interactive map, filter by species, distance, date, and verification status, and discover your next target bird. Document every observation with multiple photos and browse community photos by species in a gallery-style layout.
Birding is better together. Follow other birders, like and comment on sightings, and stay connected through a real-time social feed. Create birding groups, invite members, organise timed events, and compete on group leaderboards. Join challenges, climb area leaderboards, and get notified about rare sighting reports, new followers, and leaderboard changes, all in real time.
Contribute to conservation through dedicated SABAP2 atlassing tools with grid-based surveys, full and ad-hoc protocols, and observer ID tracking. Track area stats, discover target species for any region, and see who's leading in your favourite birding spots. Whether you're a lister, a twitcher, or an atlasser, Bindo puts everything you need in one place.
If you use Bindo, you can still create shared lists with us. We will assist in the sharing process.
eBird Mobile makes it easy to record the birds you see in the field, and seamlessly link these observations with eBird--a global online database of bird records used by hundreds of thousands of birders around the world. This free resource makes it easy to keep track of what you see, while making your data openly available for scientific research, education, and conservation. eBird Mobile is the only app that passes information directly from the Android device to your eBird account on the web.
Features
- Track your bird sightings from anywhere in the world.
- View your Life, Year, and Month lists for any region or nearby location.
- Full global taxonomy based on The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World.
- Checklists customized for your location and time of year, showing most likely species based on eBird data.
- Real-time feedback on whether a sighting is rare in the area.
- Quick entry tools to make note-taking faster than ever before.
- GPS enabled location plotting and tracking options.
- Map tools that show you hundreds of thousands of eBird Hotspots.
- Full offline functionality, enabling use in places with limited or no Internet connection.
If you use eBird you can share your lists with our profile on eBird which is "OkavangoBirding"
The Southern African Bird Atlas Project (SABAP2) remains our region's primary conservation tool, transforming simple listing into structured atlassing. By meticulously logging each species observed within pentads (precise nine kilometer geographical grid cells), you can map bird distributions. In Botswana, where vast wilderness tracts remain largely undocumented, your eyes in the field are vital. Together, our collective safari data directly serves to protect the fragile avian zones here.
You can access the database here: http://sabap2.adu.org.za
The SABAP2 Map of Botswana - the grey "ad-hoc" pentads are mostly along main roads
The SABAP2 Map of northern Botswana including Shakawe, Kasane and Maun