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Logging sightings

A sighting is the core record in Bïndo: a species, a place, and a time. Everything else — life list, trips, feed — builds on top of sightings.

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Visibility

Sightings are public by default. Anyone on Bïndo can see them in the Feed, on your profile, and on the map. If a bird is at a sensitive location — an active nest, or a roosting site for a rare species — mark the sighting sensitive when you log it. Sensitive sightings show only the general area, never the exact coordinates.

Because they're public and shared, log each bird where and when you actually saw it. See Accurate sightings.

Quick-add

Tap the Add Sighting tab, search for a species, then tap its ⊕. Bïndo stamps your GPS location on it and saves in one tap.

The Add Sightings screen showing a searchable species list, each row with a ⊕ button
Tap ⊕ on a species to quick-add it. Long-press the same ⊕ for the full form.

See Your first sighting for the full walkthrough.

Custom sighting

Long-press a species' ⊕ to open the full form, which gives you control over every field:

The custom sighting form with the species, date, photos and location fields numbered
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  1. 1Species — tap to open the searchable picker and change the bird.
  2. 2Date and time — defaults to now, fully editable for retroactive entries.
  3. 3Photos — attach up to ten photos per sighting.
  4. 4Location — taken from GPS; tap the map to drop the pin, or paste coordinates.

Lifer and Sensitive flags

Two toggles at the bottom of the form:

The Lifer and Sensitive toggles at the foot of the custom sighting form
Lifer marks a new species for your life list. Sensitive hides the exact location from public views.

Pasting a location

Tap Paste to read a coordinate straight from your clipboard.

The location card showing latitude and longitude fields with a Paste button
Handy for logging a spot you noted somewhere else.

Adding photos to a sighting

Editing a sighting

Open any sighting from the Listing tab or your profile, open its actions menu, and tap Edit. You can change the species, date and time, location, flags, and photos. The same menu also lets you add Photos or Share the sighting. Edits save locally straight away and sync in the background.

A sighting's actions menu with Edit highlighted, alongside Photos, Share, Duplicate pin and Delete
The sighting actions menu. Edit opens the full form; Delete is at the bottom.

Deleting a sighting

Open the sighting, open its actions menu, and tap Delete. If it was your only record of that species, your life list count drops by one.

The sighting actions menu with the red Delete action highlighted at the bottom
Delete sits at the foot of the same actions menu.

Offline behaviour

Sightings save to your device first, then sync in the background — when you open the app, when your connection returns, and at intervals while you're using it. Log offline for as long as you like; everything catches up next time you have signal.