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Learn the birds around you by sight, sound and story.

Apps can tell you the bird. Warbly makes sure you know it next time: short lessons, a few minutes a day, starting with the birds on your lawn.

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  • The Learn tab: today’s goal, Warbly and the path through the first unit
    A path of short lessons, one unit at a time
  • A Spot it question in a practice drill: name the bird from its photos or field marks
    Short questions on real photos and field marks
  • The mystery bird of the day, its photo partly flown in over the bird’s shadow, with the level and the speed bonus
    A daily mystery bird that flies in piece by piece
  • A bird’s page with arrows on the photo pointing at its field marks
    Field marks drawn right on the photo
  • The field journal: species logged and sightings by day
    A field journal for the birds you find

Three ways to know a bird

  • Spot itIts look, and the field marks that give it away, with arrows drawn on real photos.
  • Hear itIts songs and calls, from real recordings, with a sonogram so you can see the sound.
  • Know itWhere it lives, when it’s here and what it does, checked against the field guides.

Each unit ends with a Field test that mixes all three. Practice brings back the birds you miss, sooner.

Then go find them

  • A field journalLog the birds you see or hear, then save them in eBird’s format to upload.
  • Birding eventsPractice before the Christmas Bird Count, the Great Backyard Bird Count and the Big Days, and earn a badge for logging during them.
  • Flocks and classesLearn with family or friends, or give a class a code. Classmates never see each other’s progress.
  • A notebook and a certificatePrint your journal as a field notebook, and earn a certificate for 20 birds by sight and 5 by ear, the Bird Study merit badge’s numbers. (It’s practice, not the badge.)

What Warbly promises

  • No guilt. Rest days cover a missed day, and you can hide the streak.
  • No ads, no trackers, no analytics, and nothing is sold.
  • Warbly never reads your location. A place in your journal is only the words you type.
  • Every photo and recording is credited to the person who made it.

How Warbly handles your data

Now teaching Northern Utah

  • 103birds
  • 16units
  • 316photos
  • 193recordings

Birds and seasons from iNaturalist observations; facts checked against Cornell Lab’s All About Birds, Wikipedia and the state wildlife agency. Every credit.

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