About eBirdr

a Bond and Son production

eBirdr is evolved from the oldest electronic bird guide for North American birds (see Historical Gallery). It began by wildlife biologist Larry Bond in 1987, as a text-based expert system. It was called The Electronic Birder.

The Electronic Birder simply asked questions about field marks to identify a bird. In so doing, it improved skill level in the identification process, by focusing on what to look for. It was only available on floppy disk for IBM compatible computers.

When computer graphics emerged The Electronic Birder evolved into Birdstar available on CDs. Birds themselves are so multimedia that it was a natural progression to incorporate pictures and sounds to assist in the identification process.

eBirdr now represents an advance to the Web 2.0 format (logo courtesy of Laura Bond). The retro name reflects the original moniker. Both Larry Bond and his programmer son, Kevin Bond, maintain the birding experience to be found here at eBirdr. Anyone on the internet can now use this birding reference and join the eBirdr community.

At present eBirdr serves as a point of reference for all birds found in North America, north of Mexico. For those keen-eyed birders who noted the features listed on the older guides in the Gallery, such as birding games, slideshows, expert system for identification etc, the intention is to eventually include all these features in eBirdr. Notice of new features, as they are added will be described on the home page. Please keep posted for these addition. At this time we are not taking submissions for sighting or photographic contributions but this too is planned. A mobile phone version will also be available within a few months.

We appreciate hearing from users on their experiences here. And if you have a great bird photograph or sighting of a particular bird that you would like to share, we would like to include it here it on the site. At this time please email it to us. As always, your feedback on the guide is welcome. If you have any comments, sightings, corrections or omissions to share here at eBirdr, please contact Larry for birding related feedback or Kevin for technical related issues.

Welcome aboard and Happy Birding.