Birder's Diary, the world's best software for people who like to keep lists of the birds (and other things) they've seen.

"Birder's Diary is the most advanced listing and record-keeping software in the World. It is designed to meet the needs of Birder's and Bird Watchers as well anyone interested in other branches of the animal and plant kingdoms.

What can Birder's Diary do for you?

Print out checklists for any country/state in the World.
Always know exactly what your life counts are for any location.
- Define unlimited locations and link them in an unlimited variety of ways - extremely important for reporting.
- Use Birder's Diary for yourself, your whole family, and your bird club; any number of users.
Keep track of more than just Birds - new taxonomic lists becoming available every month. Butterflies, reptiles, trees, mammals, etc.
Unlimited User-defined Data fields for each sighting. Define the data you want to keep track of!
Contains taxonomic lists for all the major authorities of the World - ABA, AOU, WP, BOU and Clements.
- Clements World List contains over 20,000 subspecies!
Enter sightings rapidly. Spend time in the field seeing birds, not at home in front of a computer entering data!
Edit sightings singly or as a group.
View what species you are likely to see at a given location for a given time period.
Keep accurate records of your sightings that you can recall at any time.
The best customer support in the industry!

What does your current listing system do for you?

Do you know your life counts for any given location at the touch of a finger?
Can you recall sightings for specific species or locations immediately?
Can you print out checklists to take into the field with you for any location?
Can you enter sightings quickly, getting you back into the field enjoying birds?
Do you know all the locations where you have seen a specific species? County lists?

You may think that all Listing Programs would basically be the same. But you can tell a lot about a product by understanding the design goals behind the product.

Fast Data Entry
You simply cannot enter sightings any faster than with Birder's Diary. Many times faster than most applications in the industry. What does this mean to you? More time out in the field making sightings and less time sitting in front of your computer entering them. The two fastest methods of sightings entry in Birder's Diary are SmartSearch Keyboard Entry and Voice Recognition. A lot of time was put into designing the fastest methods possible keeping you in the field the longest.
Flexible Reporting
There are three important parts to flexible reporting. The output format, the ability to group sightings logically, and the ability to filter sightings on a complex set of user-defined data. Birder's Diary does all three and very well.
To start with, Birder's Diary allows you to build your own report formats, specifying data fields, column width & order, fonts, colors etc. With the Advanced User license you can save report templates that you have built for recall later. Birder's Diary ships with over 100 templates to demonstrate the breadth. You can use each and modify them to your needs for producing a wide variety of Sightings reports, life list reports, and checklist reports.
What if you want a report of all sightings for National Parks in your country? Or, disjoint counties in your state, etc. The location feature allows you to make unlimited ties between locations, create new locations and tie other locations to them and then reference these for cross-region reports simply not available from other products. Birder's Diary makes it easy.
And finally, what if you want to record breeding status, plumage characteristics, sex, etc for each of your sightings. Birder's Diary allows you to create an unlimited number of attached data fields for any purpose. Then you can create complex filter queries on these sightings using this data for both reporting and viewing.
Not Just Birds!
Many, many birders are not only birders. In fact, many are Naturalists first and Birders second. Whether it comes first or second for you is irrelevant. Chances are that you have wanted to, at one time or another, record sightings for other members of the animal or plant kingdoms. Trees in your neighborhood, for example. Butterflies, reptiles, dragonflies. The interest rarely stops with just birds. Birder's Diary was designed from the ground up to incorporate any taxonomic list and to be able to keep sightings for that list. In addition, it was also designed to support multiple taxonomic lists covering the same animal or plant groups. It is quite a difficult task to maintain mappings between different authors' taxonomic lists, but Birder's Diary does it very well and seamlessly for the user.
Data Sharing
Birder's Diary allows you to share your sightings between other users of Birder's Diary as well as other applications. Import/export functionality allows you to email sightings and other data to friends/family.
Extensive Help Features
Birder's Diary was designed with the latest technologies in mind. Each field/button on every window has tool tip help for immediate "what's this?" help. In addition, there is an online user manual rich with screen snapshots and how-to information. There is also a talking bird that will explain each window to you. Finally, there are videos accessible from the Help menu that show you how to do most functions in Birder's Diary."