With sadness, we announce that after four years of operation, Birdstack will shut down on 25 February.
You can visit http://www.birdstack.com/export to download all of your Birdstack data, including your observations and photos. You can also export qualifying records to eBird. (Learn how: http://birdstack.com/help/ebird.)
Your enthusiasm, support, and participation over the years has been amazing. We’ve learned and accomplished much together, and Birdstack has helped push forward the development of online bird listing programs.
But times are changing, and Birdstack doesn’t have the resources to continue growing. We’ve made the very difficult decision to close the site down.
Remember, please visit http://www.birdstack.com/export to download your data. We encourage you to explore eBird — or a local WorldBirds partner — as an online listing solution.
Feel free to contact us with any questions you may have about this process: http://birdstack.com/contact.
The Birdstack Team
OK, I hear that you’re not developing it any more but is there any way of freezing it as is? It’s too valuable a repository of old records and too useful for new ones. I’d be happy to host it if it could be moved.
Shortly after the site shuts down, we plan to release all the source code and also a snapshot of the MySQL database containing all public records.
Having spent a lot of time entering my observations, I will be very sorry to see Birdstack go. I particularly like its simple interface and that it is just a resource for my lists (i.e. without moderators/vettors), yet it quickly allows me to manipulate my sightings so that I can discover all sorts of cool things about my observations (note: cool is clearly in the eye of the beholder!).
The previous two comments are encouraging and hopefully someone with more web savvy than me can keep the site going in some form. I would certainly be prepared to help if that would be useful!
Thanks to the developers for the website and let’s hope that this is a change, rather than the end!
Cheers
Stuart
The database would be great. I’m guessing there’s a lot of complex source code! Anyway, good to know there will be some sort of legacy: Birdstack is far and away the best online recording and reporting system.
OMG!
I’m so sorry to read that BirdStack will close. I’m not a massive user; but over the past while I’ve been uploading all my bird sightings going back to the mid ’80s. I found the interface very easy to use, the bulk upload feature was great and the formatting of reports into any sort of list I wanted was the best I found on the web. I did a comparison of bird recording apps for my blog and BirdStack was by far the best.
I’d definitely be interested in a copy of the source code and the database. I’d love to set up my own site just for recording my sightings.
So sad to hear your going.
David