BirdDoc
Fang-Karte
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Parus major
- Flügel
- 76 mm
- Gewicht
- 18,4 g
- Fettvorrat
- 3
- Alter
- Vorjährig
- Geschlecht
- Männlich
- Datum
- 12.10.2025
Station journal · Bird ringing
Bird ringing software & station journal
Done with paper and Excel: BirdDoc is the station journal for bird ringing – one clean record per captured and ringed bird, entered right at the ringing table instead of on loose notes and in scattered spreadsheets. Beta
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Ring series: consecutively consumed ring numbers from station operation; the next number is the last consumed + 1.
For ringers
You ring birds yourself and want to leave paper and Excel behind? BirdDoc turns your captures into one clean capture card.
For organisations
Deciding for a whole ringing landscape? A scheme-wide rollout: GDPR-compliant, hosted in Austria, with no lock-in.
For ringers
From the notepad to the capture card
Today you note every capture at the ringing table on paper and later transcribe it laboriously into Excel. That is error-prone, entered twice and hard to search.
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The bird's history, as soon as the ring number is entered
On a recapture, the bird's earlier capture history appears right beside the entry at once, with a note if the sex entries in it contradict one another.
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The mistake is caught at the ringing table
A measurement outside the usual range for the species is flagged at once, while the bird is still in the hand, not months later.
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Works even with poor reception
There is no signal in the reed bed, and BirdDoc needs none there: captures keep being recorded and are transferred as soon as reception is back.
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Report file at the push of a button
The captures of a project become the finished report file for your ringing scheme, in Austria the IWM file for the ringing centre: no manual work.
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Not starting from scratch
Previous report files come along: the import shows a preview, detects duplicates and lists errors per row before a single record is written.
Compared with paper lists and Excel, point by point: See the comparison
BirdDoc is in closed beta and free during the beta. Join the waiting list and we'll get in touch as soon as an access code opens up.
A look inside BirdDoc
The form at the ringing table
This is the very form you fill in at the ringing table while the bird is in your hand. Every completed form becomes a clean capture card like the one above: no notes, no transcribing.
Neuer Beringungseintrag
Projekt Schilf-Monitoring Neusiedlersee
Station Illmitz Schilfgürtel
Beringer:in Johanna Gruber (JGR)
Datum und Uhrzeit 28.08.2025, 06:40
Art Teichrohrsänger
Status Erstfang (e)
Ringgröße V
Ringnummer 18127
Alter 3 – Diesjährig
Geschlecht 0 – Unbekannt
Fettvorrat 2
Muskelklasse 2
Flügellänge (mm) 66
Gewicht (g) 11,8
A look inside BirdDoc
What the season has brought
What you record at the ringing table, BirdDoc adds up per project and period: key figures, the most frequent species and the last capture day compared with the previous one. That happens online and needs reception; the recording itself needs none.
Analysis · Example
Schilf-Monitoring Neusiedlersee Saison 2025
- Fänge
- 918
- davon 694 Erstfänge
- Arten
- 38
- jüngster Erstnachweis: Rotkehlchen
- Fangtage
- 43
- Ø 21.3 Fänge/Fangtag
- Wiederfang-Anteil
- 24.4 %
- 224 Wiederfänge
Häufigste Arten
- Teichrohrsänger 312
- Schilfrohrsänger 154
- Mönchsgrasmücke 97
- Rohrammer 63
- Bartmeise 41
For organisations
Roll out scheme-wide – every group stays on its own
BirdDoc can be rolled out across a whole ringing landscape, and every group keeps its own private workspace. There is no scheme-wide central authority that can see into every capture: organisations never see one another's data.
- Data sovereignty
- All ringing data is held in Austria or the EU and processed in line with the GDPR: the organisation remains the controller, BirdDoc is solely the processor.
- No lock-in
- Every group owns its data, exportable as an IWM file at any time – so adopting BirdDoc stays reversible.
- Recording together
- Several people record their organisation's captures together; ringers without an account of their own are recorded by name and take up no seat: one licence per organisation – never per head.
- Continuity – answered honestly
- BirdDoc is run by a single person as a sole proprietorship, and because your data belongs to you and can be exported at any time, you stay independent of whoever runs BirdDoc.
- Proven at the ringing station
- BirdDoc already documents real ringing work: born as a master's thesis (Masterarbeit), proven in daily station work.
- Captures
- 3,412
- Species
- 74
- Projects
- 5
For interested groups, a guided beta pilot is possible, with no fixed timeline.
Request a conversation Already have an access code? Found your organisation
Built in Austria, made for Europe
- Jurisdiction
- All ringing data stays in the EU and therefore under European jurisdiction: GDPR-compliant, with no transfer to third countries and no third-party tracking.
- Origin
- BirdDoc is developed in Austria and hosted in Austria, backups included.
- Model
- The data model is built scheme-wide, not narrowed to one country: the complete register of the European ringing schemes ships as reference data in the product, rings of other schemes can be recorded, and the ring size follows the respective scheme. In the interface, your own scheme cannot be selected today; ring sizes outside the Austrian scheme are recorded as free text.