Project FeederWatch

Name: Project FeederWatch
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2.3333332538604736 (86 reviews)
Author: Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

2.3

86 reviews

10K+

Downloads

Everyone

About this app

Do you feed birds? You can report what you see for science. Project FeederWatch, a joint project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Birds Canada, monitors winter feeder-bird populations in North America. The FeederWatch Mobile App is a new way for Project FeederWatch members to contribute their bird counts.

Sign in to:
•Report birds that visit your count site in winter (US and Canada only)
•Track your sighting statistics in real time
•Access your archive of past counts from all years
•Contribute to North America’s largest database on feeder birds
•Find out what food and feeder types work best for the birds overwintering near you
•Identify and learn about feeder birds

FeederWatch Mobile automatically syncs with the web version for seamless multi-platform support. Your data become immediately available for scientific research, education, and conservation. Thank you for helping birds!

Updated on

28 Jan 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.

This app may share these data types with third parties

App info and performance

This app may collect these data types

Location, Personal info and 3 others

Data is encrypted in transit

You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

2.3

81 reviews

Mary Hollinger

4 November 2022

I cannot get past the login attempt. I deleted and reinstalled and still get the same error messages to "restore modal checking" and "restore modal checking version" 11/3/22 There is a workable link on the app login page that takes you to the PFW webpage. I got to the data entry page and the *last* thing allowed is to enter bird counts - after entering all of the ancillary info first. Yay. Pre-realtime data!! Apparently I need to go back to paper and pencil. Please fix this app!!!

4 people found this review helpful

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

9 November 2022

So sorry you had trouble with the app! We just released a bug fix that I hope will remedy things for you. (An operating system update changed the data storage interface on some phones.) If the app update does not solve your problem, please do email us at pfwonline@cornell.edu so we can get to the bottom of it! - Lisa, FeederWatch app team

Lynnea Bretz

30 November 2022

I have not used this app the last 2 seasons...it was so buggy and useless. I thought I would try it out this season. I made my counts on a notepad and thought I could use my phone to enter. I can't even put in yesterday's date...or any date besides the 2016‐17 season. There isn't a way to "clean up" old counts that I ended up using a computer to enter data from years past. I didn't even get a chance to see if the counting aspect is still glitchy. Uninstall again!

4 people found this review helpful

Le Fish

10 December 2020

App is non-functional since latest update. You can add birds to a two-day count but when you try to select the AM PM data, number of count hours, etc., those items don't work so you are unable to complete and submit a count. This app worked fine for me last year but as of now Cornell is providing us with a useless tool for bird counts they charge us $ to participate in. Not a great PR model.

4 people found this review helpful