Welcome to the Birder's Diary Home Page

Home of the World's Premier Birding Software!

For Birders, Bird Watchers, Naturalists of all sorts of Disciplines!

"Comprehensive Excellence! I find Birder’s Diary an exceptionally versatile program for birders and other naturalists. After 20 years of trying various programs, I have finally found the ‘right solution’. Sightings from birding, scuba, herp, butterfly and dragonfly trips now have a common home as I use Birder’s Diary to easily record sightings for birds, mammals, reptiles, fishes, insects and more. I love the taxonomy tool, which is outstanding for the naturalist who wants to learn from and record more of their outdoor experience. Bells and whistles aside, my favorite aspect of the program is the service I have experienced from the super-responsive ‘can do’ support team. Whether it was a complex data conversion of years of old bird records or getting help for a reporting need, the Birder’s Diary support team showed me the way very quickly." Tadas Birutis - Lifebird Nature Tours - read more...

This web site has been designed to assist you, the Birder's Diary user, in purchasing, downloading, installing and activating, and obtaining use and technical support for Birder's Diary. Whether for your first purchase, an upgrade or a taxonomic list add-on, this site is designed to inform and facilitate your needs. Use the menu system at the top of each page to navigate to pages with specific information to meet your needs. For questions and support issues, please use the product forums under the Support menu. You will receive prompt, professional and courteous support from Birder's Diary staff!

What is Birder's Diary?

Birder's Diary is a software program that allows birders and naturalists to maintain detailed records of their sightings. You can capture unlimited user-defined data about each sighting and then report on this data in a myriad of ways. You can print checklists; automatically maintain life list counts for any region on Earth; recall and report on trends; etc etc. Birder's Diary is more than a tool just for birders. Checklists exist for mammals, butterflies, trees, and many, many more. More are being added all the time! Since 1995, Birder's Diary has been providing the World's Birding community with the latest technology, products and services!

Fully Functional 30-day Trial on your system in minutes!

Try before you buy with no commitments! The entire product is available for immediate download from this site (quick and simple site registration is required before download). You are one click and a few minutes away from running Birder's Diary, fully functional, for one month. Just go to the Downloads page and click on the Network Installation link to start your installation! If you decide to purchase, you do not have to download and install again. Simply enter the License ID from your purchase and you are up and running!

"Just thought I would email you and say thanks for an awesome bit of software. I have told many people asking about software, that Birder’s Diary is the way to go. Since I’ve been doing so much travelling lately (13 countries last year!), I have really been using Birder’s Diary to keep track of my bird sightings, and really getting to grips with its capabilities. The software is great and makes life so much easier than keeping everything on excel spreadsheets and bits of paper like I used to!" Brent, PhD/Ornithology, Wrybill Birding Tours, NZ - read more...

Purchase and Download Online!

No more waiting for shipments. Updates and bug fixes available immediately. Taxonomic updates can be purchased, downloaded and imported in minutes. Add-ons available 24x7!

Many Taxonomic Lists to use with Birder's Diary

Birder's Diary is simply the best Birder listing tool available. But it is not only for Birds and Birders. There are many different tax lists available covering many areas of Flora and Fauna. From butterflies to trees to reptiles and mammals. Just keep checking the Online Store for the available taxonomic add-ons! New ones become available every month. And updates are made available whenever the taxonomic authorities make their changes!

Conversion Tools available to move you from your current software to Birder's Diary!

"As a long-time user of Avisys, I developed the need for a more comprehensive birding software program and chose Birder's Dairy. Birder's Diary greatly expands my ability to enter a variety of data and has extensive capabilities. I am completely satisfied with Birder's Diary and converting from Avisys was long overdue. I would highly recommend Birder's Diary to first time users or anyone looking to upgrade their current software - you'll never look back." Angelo - Indianapolis, IN - read more...

You can convert any type of data you may have (Excel spreadsheet, Avisys, etc) and import it into Birder's Diary. An automated tool for converting your complete Avisys data is installed with Birder's Diary!

Site Registration

This new web site for Birder's Diary requires registration to access portions of the site such as the Group and Support forums as well as the product/add-ons download page. In addition, you will receive periodic newsletters announcing new offerings and releases to help keep you ahead of the ever-changing taxonomic landscape. You can always opt-out of the newsletters if you choose.

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