A lifetime of sightings? Anywhere in the world? Yes.
Runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux? Without emulation software? Yes.
Easy-to-use? Fast data entry? Yes.
Fast import from eBird, Avisys, BirdBase, BirdTrack, and more? Yes.
Hundreds of built-in country and state checklists? Yes.
Big price? No. It's free.
Scythebill is a desktop application for birders to keep track of their life lists and birding records. There's plenty of great birdlist software and birding software available today, but:
- Scythebill is free (and will remain so).
- Scythebill is easy-to-use. It takes a few minutes to get started.
- Scythebill is powerful - loads of features, like flipping between the Clements and IOC checklists
- Scythebill is cross-platform - you don't need to lose your list just because you switch from Mac to Windows to Linux.
- Scythebill is open-source, so anyone can contribute to its development.
New - Scythebill 15.8 is available!
Scythebill 15.8.0 includes the brand new IOC 13.1 taxonomy and a variety of smaller improvements.
Other recent versions have added the eBird/Clements 2022 taxonomy, extended taxonomy country checklists (try it with the new Mammals of the World taxonomy!), BirdTrack support, reporting, location, species browsing, and sighting entry improvements, Flickr imports, iNaturalist import and export,, translation into German, continent and region checklists, family and trip reports, favorite photos, HBW, Birder's Diary and Bird Brain imports, Spanish language translation, and much more! See the Scythebill blog for all release notes.
Other recent versions have added the eBird/Clements 2022 taxonomy, extended taxonomy country checklists (try it with the new Mammals of the World taxonomy!), BirdTrack support, reporting, location, species browsing, and sighting entry improvements, Flickr imports, iNaturalist import and export,, translation into German, continent and region checklists, family and trip reports, favorite photos, HBW, Birder's Diary and Bird Brain imports, Spanish language translation, and much more! See the Scythebill blog for all release notes.
Also new - more extended taxonomies!
There's a new mammals of the world taxonomy (now with country checklists!) world reptiles and dragonfly taxonomies, an extended taxonomy for European dragonflies and damselflies, North American moths, and three new taxonomies for United Kingdom invertebrates!