Date: 9/1/26 11:25 am From: rtrinkner via Colorado Birds <cobirds...> Subject: [cobirds] Yearbirder v.2: Recordings and Community Sightings
Hi folks,
I’ve spent four months improving Yearbirder to respond to your comments, add features, and polish the app. The result is Yearbirder 2.14, now available at https://yearbirder.org <http://yearbirder.org/>. As usual, Yearbirder is a free, open-source app.
If you missed my introduction of Yearbirder in May, here’s the recap: Yearbirder is a free desktop app that lets you explore your personal eBird sightings through sortable lists, charts, graphs, and interactive maps — all filtered any way you choose. If you're a photographer or recordist, it also organizes your bird photos and recordings alongside your sightings, so you can browse, rate, and map them the way a birder thinks.
Four key new features since May:
1. Community Sightings. Yearbirder now lets you explore what the eBird community is seeing, with hotspot maps, notable sightings lists, and all-community sightings lists. Each of these lists also shows which species would be life, country, state, county, and year birds for you. I find these maps and reports really helpful for planning my next outing.
2. Recordings. Yearbirder now lets you import your WAV recordings and then sort and filter them by species, family, order, location, and date, in addition to filters for recording properties, like duration, sample rate, bit depth, channels, and recording device. Recording birds is a new hobby for me, and I’ve spent a few months polishing this new feature of the app to be as robust as the photography feature.
3. Media caching. Yearbirder can now display galleries of photos and recording spectrograms nearly instantaneously as a result of a media caching system. Even if you have thousands of photos, now you can see a grid display of, say, all your Spizella sparrows photographed in Colorado — within a second.
4. Vastly improved media importing. Yearbirder uses the date and time embedded in your photo and recording files to match them to a checklist automatically. If your media file names include the species name in any form, the app should be able to match them. Yearbirder now checks the file name against the species' eBird code, banding code, common name, and scientific name — plus a fallback for the intuitive-but-wrong four-letter codes many of us type. For most media, now you should only need to click OK to import the file. This is way faster and more reliable than with version 1 of the app.
Yearbirder currently runs on macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit). Windows ARM machines run it under emulation, and some features will feel a little slow. You can run it from source on Linux. If you need a version for a different platform, like macOS Intel, let me know and I'll consider building it.
If you use Yearbirder, I'd greatly appreciate hearing from you — please drop me an email at <rtrinkner...> I'd especially welcome thoughts on the new recordings feature, as I'm new to the recordists' world.
Good birding,
Richard Trinkner
Boulder
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