Yes eBird is downed. It has been targeted by an unusually large amount of
bot traffic and cannot handle juggling that plus the real users.
Noah
On Tuesday, June 10, 2025, <wybortsjr...> wrote:
> Thanks. I’m getting the same error again after it worked briefly.
>
> At least it’s not just me. Hopefully it will resolve soon.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> *From:* Wendy VanDeWalle <wtvandewalle...>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 10, 2025 15:58
> *To:* <wybortsjr...>
> *Cc:* IA-BIRD <ia-bird...>
> *Subject:* Re: [ia-bird] eBird crashed?
>
>
>
> I’m getting that too. I do know the app updated yesterday, so maybe they
> are doing some maintenance.
>
>
>
> Wendy VanDeWalle
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM <wybortsjr...> wrote:
>
> Just wanted to know if it’s just me or if anyone else is experiencing
> this. The website is giving me an all-black screen with tiny white words in
> the upper left-hand corner that say, “service unavailable” sometimes and
> “bad gateway” other times I try to refresh. Then I’m trying the app, and it
> will open but it’s completely frozen and I can’t do anything and it says
> “can’t update”. So is eBird down?
>
> Was going to send them a help request but can’t even do that.
>
> I’ve never seen this happen before.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Wyman Borts
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