Plumage reads the place, the date and the camera settings off your own photographs, suggests the bird on your phone, and a field guide of your own fills up, one bird at a time.
Thousands of frames, buried between screenshots and receipts. You cannot find the good heron. You cannot remember the year of the first waxwing. Nobody else will ever see any of it.
Plumage gives them somewhere to go. Every photo arrives filed by place and date with the species one tap away, and a field guide of your own starts filling up, one bird at a time.
Birds from the birders you follow, and the best of everyone else’s. Never ranked by likes, nothing boosted or sponsored, and the order holds still while you read.
Species and scientific name, the date, and the bird’s song wherever there is a recording. Camera, lens and exposure ride along whenever the photo carries them. Everything that mattered about the shot.
By species, by family, by place on the map, even by the camera and lens they were shot with. And for any species, where birders have found it and the month it is reported most.
Every species you have photographed, the date you first found each one, and the photo that proves it. Bring in years of birds in one go, confirm the suggested names, and it fills up as you tap.
Plumage is built around photographs. The photo is everything.
Plumage keeps everything your camera recorded, down to the focal length and the shutter speed, and it works just as well on a photo taken through the kitchen window. Bring the 600mm. Bring the phone. Every bird counts.
Pick hundreds of photos at once. The place, the date and the camera settings are read straight from the files, and every photo gets a species suggestion worked out on your own phone. A decade of birds becomes a field guide in one go.
Camera, lens, focal length, shutter, aperture, ISO. The full technical story of the shot, right there on the photo.
For any species, see where birders have found it and the best months to look, near any place you choose. Drawn from millions of open wildlife records.
Control whether your location is exact, obscured, or hidden. Sensitive species sites are protected automatically.
A real Xeno-canto recording wherever a species has one, right there with the photo. Tap to play it, tap again to stop.
Bring in your eBird history and Plumage shows you the species you have seen but never photographed, a shot list of your own. Export your sightings back whenever you like. Your records stay yours.
Follow the birders whose work you love and see their photos in a feed that ends. Leave a kind word. Never see a follower count, because there aren’t any. And when a bird is worth showing off, Plumage makes you a card for it: the species, the place, the settings, your name.
Photographs from people who know exactly what they are looking at, and from people who are still learning. Both are welcome.
Each species someone has photographed on Plumage has a page here: the community’s photographs of it, and the months it is most often recorded. No app required to look.
No. Plumage keeps everything a camera recorded, down to the focal length and the shutter speed, and it works just as well on a photo taken through a kitchen window with a phone. Every bird counts.
They are built around the record and the identification. Plumage is built around the photograph. Most birders use all three: your checklist has the sighting, Merlin helps name the bird, and Plumage is where the picture lives.
Yes. Pick hundreds at once. The place, the date and the camera settings are read straight from the files, and each photo gets a species suggestion worked out on your own phone, so years of birds become a field guide in one go.
You choose whether each photo’s location is exact, obscured or hidden. The nesting and roosting sites of sensitive species are obscured automatically, on every shared surface, whatever you choose.
Plumage is free to start, and there are no ads in your feed. Your own photographs, your life list and your eBird export are never charged for. Plumage Pro is an optional subscription at $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year, with a two-week free trial on the yearly, and it removes the monthly limit on looking up birds you have not photographed yet. There are also one-time supporter gifts.
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