What's New

March 26, 2025

  • 🐞 Fixed a bug where some eBird data was not loading.

March 24, 2025

  • ✨ Improved interface for managing life list exceptions.

March 18, 2025

  • ✨ Improved error handling in the hotspot dialog.

March 16, 2025

  • ✨ Editors can now invite other editors or remove themselves from a trip. They cannot remove the person who initially created the trip.

March 14, 2025

  • ✨ New logo and a slight facelift as we get ready for a wider announcement.

March 13, 2025

  • ✨ Streamlined the process of importing region targets from eBird. You no longer need to choose a cutoff percent. All targets > 0.01% will be included.
  • ✨ Optimized the process of downloading targets for hotspots.

March 12, 2025

  • 🛠️ Switched to a new database provider and updated backend. If you experience any issues, please let us know.

February 18, 2025

  • 🐞 Fixed a bug where clicking on a pin from the species map did not work.

January 16, 2025

  • ✨ When viewing trip targets, clicking the dropdown icon will now show a list of the best of your saved hotspots to find the species.

January 3, 2025

  • ✨ Improved loading of hotspot targets from eBird. The process will now continue even if the hotspot window is closed.

September 4, 2024

  • 🐞 Fixed several user interface bugs on mobile devices.
  • 🐞 Fixed bug where KML exports were not displaying descriptions correctly for certain places.
  • 🐞 Made saved hotspots easier to click than surrounding markers on map.

June 4, 2024

  • ✨ The auto importing of target species from eBird has been expanded to include hotspots. Once you save a hotspot to your trip, the target species will be automatically imported. Make sure you leave the hotspot window open for this to complete.

June 2, 2024

  • ✨ Target species are now automatically imported from eBird! You no longer have to manually upload a CSV file. The same functionality will soon be brought over to hotspots targets.
  • 🐞 Fixed bug where opening map from target list would sometimes not be fully visible.

May 24, 2024

  • ✨ Redesigned trip targets page.
  • ✨ Trip targets can now be starred. Useful for indicating endemic or near endemic species.

March 12, 2024

  • ✨ Added a trip settings page.
  • ✨ Added a bunch of new icons to choose from when adding a new marker.
  • ✨ KML Export: Added a link to Google Maps when viewing a marker in other apps such as Organic Maps.

March 9, 2024

  • ✨ Highlight selected marker on the map.
  • ✨ Added new trip photo quiz feature (accessed from the 3 dots dropdown menu).
  • ✨ Easily add a place from Google Maps such as airports, hotels, and restaurants by searching for the place.
  • ✨ Redesigned map interface by removing the sidebar and adding several icons to handle map functions.

February 24, 2024

  • 🐞 Allow adding multiple of the same location on an itinerary day without it breaking.
  • 🐞 Several other bug fixes related to itineraries.

February 5, 2024

  • ✨ Added option to list exceptions when uploading life list.

December 17, 2023

  • ✨ Redesigned trip targets page.
  • ✨ Link to Merlin (on mobile) and eBird species page (on computer) from targets.

December 13, 2023

  • 🐞 Include favorites species in hotspot description of KML export.

December 10, 2023

  • 🐞 Fix error when accessing eBird hotspot data.