Every bird you have ever seen, set in type.
Drop your eBird life list below. It is read in your browser and never leaves it. A register of your species renders in a second — numbered, in taxonomic order, grouped by family, with the count eBird itself gives you.
Previewing and the share image are free. The print-ready PDF is $19, one payment.
A PNG, 1080 × 1350, to post or send.
One payment. Every size and palette for this list. Re-open this page on the same device to render again.
What it is
A typeset register, not a collage. The species you have actually recorded, in the order ornithologists use, under their family names, numbered down the margin like a ledger. Your 100th, 250th and 500th birds are marked. The last line is your latest lifer.
What it counts
Exactly what eBird counts. Your export carries eBird’s own countable flag, so spuhs, slashes, hybrids, domestic birds and escapees stay off the list. If eBird says 512, this says 512. Family names and sequence follow AviList, the global checklist of birds (CC BY 4.0). What counts on a life list says how each kind of row is handled.
What you get
- Free: a share image of your poster, 1080 × 1350, to post or send.
- $19: the print-ready PDF in six sizes — 11×14, 18×24 and 24×36 inches, A3, A2 and A1 — in four palettes, plus a print-shop version with bleed and crop marks. Vector text with the fonts embedded, so it prints sharp at any size. Print the White palette at home, or send the print-shop file to any poster printer.
Your file stays yours
The page parses your CSV in your browser. There is no upload, no account and no email to give. Payment happens on Stripe’s page; when you come back, the PDF is made on your own machine from the file you already opened.
Questions
Where is my life list in eBird?
Sign in at ebird.org and open My eBird. Tap the total species observed, or choose “Sightings Lists” in the Manage tools (on a phone, tap “Manage”). Use the globe icon to pick a region, then click the cloud icon or the “Download” button. The steps, with eBird’s own wording.
My count here differs from eBird.
If you dropped the full-data export, the list is derived and can differ by a few; download the Life List itself for the exact count. The status line under the drop zone says which rows were left off and why.
Can I give it as a gift?
Yes. The birder downloads their list in a minute; you drop the file here and keep the PDF. If you want it to be a surprise, ask them to send you “that eBird CSV” — most birders have one. More on giving it.
Which size should I print?
The largest sheet you have room for. The layout is the same at every size, so a bigger sheet means bigger type, and the note under the controls gives the size of the names in points for the sheet you picked. Very long lists run onto a second sheet, and the preview says so.
Will it print at home?
Choose the White palette. 11×14 is larger than Letter, so print it fit-to-page for a desk copy, or take the print-shop file to a copy shop for the real thing.
Do you keep my list?
No. Nothing is uploaded, so there is no copy on a server. Close the tab and it is gone from here — unless you go on to pay, in which case your browser keeps the file until you clear this site’s data, so the PDF can be made when you come back from Stripe.
Something is wrong with my PDF.
Reply to your Stripe receipt and say what happened. It gets fixed or refunded.