BINDO and SABAP2

A match made in data science

- MIKE BUCKHAM

Bindo, a bird listing app proudly developed in South Africa, has been adopted by more than 2500 birders in the two years since its soft launch on the Android and iOS platforms. One of its most important assets is its use of data, particularly all the SABAP2 sighting data that have been collected over the past 20 years. Bindo now uses these data to make birding more accessible for beginners and more accurate for the SABAP2 project.

Nearby Species

Gone are the days of flipping through field guides to identify birds. Bindo takes your GPS location and uses SABAP2 data to provide a list of species that occur there, ranked in order of abundance. This makes it much easier to limit the options — and much quicker to log a sighting. Therefore it is more accessible to new birders, while bird logging is more accurate because you are choosing from a shorter, logical list of options.