Every bird you have ever seen, kept beautifully.
Bring your eBird history. In about a minute, every species, date, and place becomes a journal you can continue for years, then hold as an annual hardcover.
It starts with the birds you have already seen.
Years of eBird checklists become a beautiful journal in about a minute. Your species, your dates, and your places are waiting for you on day one instead of year one.
forty years, in order.
A working journal, not a feed.
Every sighting is logged the way a naturalist would keep it: species, place, weather, count, and a note in your own words. Your photograph appears when you have one. A watercolor plate keeps the page complete when you do not.
We are illustrating the birds of the Northeastern United States first, species by species. Species outside our current library appear with a field plate until their watercolor is ready.
ESSEX RIVER MARSH, 42.63°N 70.78°W / 41°F / NW 8 MPH
“Heard her before I found her. She crossed the creek twice, rattling all the way, then held still long enough for one good photograph.”
Already have years of eBird sightings? Your first Lifer journal can begin with all of them.
Keep my place“You were there” is one of the loveliest things a book can preserve.
Your year becomes a hardcover with monthly chapters, your best photographs printed full-bleed, and every species indexed with its Latin name. It goes to press only after you approve it.
You open the door. They remain the author.
A thoughtful way to preserve the years your parent or grandparent has spent looking up, without taking the journal out of their hands.
Join with your own email. The gift can be arranged when Lifer opens.