RioBirds Watch

RioBirds Watch is a birdwatching journal with a companion bird that grows as you put in field hours. Log a sighting in under twenty seconds, attach a photo from your own library, and watch your life list, your streak and your companion's plumage develop over a season.

Everything you record lives on your device first. Logging, editing, photo attachment, guide browsing and the training-flight mini-game all work with the radio off. The network only synchronises — it never blocks you.

LOG SIGHTINGS FAST
• Pick a species, count, habitat and area in a single sheet
• Recent species and most-used area names available as one-tap chips
• Free-text field notes up to 500 characters
• Attach a photo from the camera or your library, stored on device
• Drafts survive backgrounding, so an interrupted entry is never lost

FIELD GUIDE AND LIFE LIST
• 24 bundled entries across 12 bird families with field marks, calls and flight shape
• Filter by six habitats and four rarity tiers, or show only what you have not yet seen
• Search across entry names, family names and field-mark text
• Per-family life list showing how many entries you have logged
• Month-by-month season strip for each entry
• Your own record per bird: first seen, last seen, highest count, areas, photos

A PERMANENT JOURNAL
• Records grouped by month with totals, distinct entries, distinct areas and streak
• Photo mode shows a three-column contact sheet of your own images
• Sort by newest, oldest or species A–Z, and search notes and areas
• Full-screen photo viewer with paging, pinch zoom and captions
• Export your journal as CSV or export your whole photo set

DAILY QUESTS
• Three quests each day, identical for every keeper on that date
• Observation, habitat, species-count, guide-reading and glide quests
• Progress computed from records on your device, confirmed with the server later
• Bundled starter deck when the app has never reached the network

YOUR COMPANION
• Choose a family and name your bird during a short setup
• Grows through Fledgling, Juvenile, Adult and Crested stages across 30 levels
• Spend plumes on Eyesight, Stamina, Song and Camouflage traits
• Unlock and equip plumage colours that retint your bird everywhere
• Milestones for records, families and streaks, plus a 14-day growth chart

THERMAL GLIDE
• A short training flight where your own companion is the flying bird
• Tap to gain height and glide through canopy gaps, collecting seeds
• Distance measured in metres, with your best distance tracked
• Converts a spare minute into experience on days with no birds

COMMUNITY
• Leaderboards for distinct family count and best glide distance, weekly or by season
• Season tally showing which families keepers are seeing, with share and trend
• Your own rank pinned above the list
• Tap a family row to jump straight to the guide

BUILT FOR OFFLINE
• Cached decks, tallies and boards are shown with the time they were fetched
• Sightings queue with a stable identifier so a retried upload never double-counts
• Clear sync status in the journal with a manual retry

PRIVACY
• No account, no password, no email, no third-party sign-in
• An anonymous device identifier is the only credential
• Your field name is the only thing other keepers see, and you can share it as anonymous
• Photos and field notes never leave your device
• Delete all data at any time, on the device and on the server