You record it where you inspect
The app starts and works with no connection, including the first time you open it after installing. You do not hunt for a signal and you do not hold numbers in your head until the evening.
For a garden, a forest district, a school
Everything about nest boxes in one place
Dimensions, dates and calculators — open, with no account to create. And when there are more than a few boxes, a program that records the inspection under the tree, including where there is no signal.
Who this is for
Three reasons to be here
The knowledge about nest boxes is open to everyone. The registry program only makes sense once there are hundreds of boxes and several people looking after them.
You have a box in the garden
Check the entrance diameter and the mounting height for the species you want to see. You create the account yourself and pay nothing for it.
You keep a registry
A forest district, a landscape park, a municipal greenery board. Hundreds of boxes, several people in the field and a season that has to end with a report.
You teach about birds
A school, a nature club, an education centre. Cross-section drawings, calculators and guide articles, ready to show in class.
Open to everyone
Dimensions, dates and calculators
No account, no fees. Next to every number we wrote where it comes from — Mikusek, the atlas of breeding birds or the State Forests guidelines — so it can be checked.
Which box for which species
Entrance diameter, mounting height and the direction the hole faces, for 37 species. For 25 of them also the national population and protection status.
Dimensions and entrance diameters
Six box types, entrances from 28 to 150 mm, interior dimensions and a cross-section drawing. Plus the mounting rules.
Work out how many and how close
Five calculators: entrance diameter for a species, boxes per hectare, spacing between them, the season calendar and how much timber is needed.
How to build, hang and clean
Fourteen step-by-step articles: what to build from, when to hang, what to clean with and how to protect the brood from a marten.
Six things
that neither a notebook nor a spreadsheet will do
Paper gets wet and disappears in a jacket, a spreadsheet will not open in the forest, and a new value typed into it wipes the previous one without a trace. The same with five boxes in a garden and with two thousand in a forest district.
Nothing is lost on the way
Entries wait on the phone until the signal returns, then send themselves. Signing out does not delete them, and an update waits until they are through.
The map works with no signal
You download the area once, before you set off. In the field it draws from the phone’s memory — in an orchard, in a park and in the forest, where nothing else works. No data charges and no limit.
You will see what was here a year ago
Every inspection stays as its own entry. You open the box’s card and see which species occupied it in previous seasons — instead of digging through old files and photos on your phone.
You can report a box you found
Hanging in a park or by a path with no tag? Report it from your phone, with its position and a description. It goes into the queue of the organisation that looks after that area, and you see in the app whether it entered the registry.
Nest locations will not leak
The coordinates of boxes with sensitive species are blurred to about a kilometre in exports. Full data has to be switched on deliberately, by somebody with the right to do so.
Not finding what you need?
Write and tell us what you need. We will say whether it is already in the app, whether it can be added, or whether this is not the way.
A day on the round
What changes from the first trip out
How it works now
- You write on paper, because a spreadsheet on a phone will not open in the forest anyway.
- In the evening you copy it all into the computer. An hour; on a big round, two.
- The photos stay in the phone’s gallery, and after the season nobody knows which box they belong to.
- To answer a question about last season you search old files, because the new value overwrote the old one.
- Nobody notices two people correcting one file — one of the corrections simply disappears.
How it works with the app
- You write it under the box, on the phone, with no signal and no paper.
- In the evening you do nothing. The inspections went by themselves when the phone found a signal.
- A photo sits with the inspection it was taken for, and stays there.
- You open last season in the box card, because every inspection is a separate entry.
- Conflicting changes go to be settled, with names attached, instead of quietly vanishing.
Season
Four steps, year after year
The app follows the same cycle as the team in the field. A signal is needed at the start, to download the map, and after you return, to send the inspections.
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Preparation
The coordinator assigns zones. The observer downloads the map area to their phone.
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In the field
No signal needed. What was found, the species, the cleaning, the photos — written under the box.
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Coming back
The inspections send themselves when the phone finds a signal. Conflicting entries wait for the coordinator.
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Summary
Export in four formats and a summary for the season. The previous values stay in the registry.
Export
CSV — every spreadsheet opens it
Roles and zones
An observer can only write an inspection where they have the right to
A trail of changes
Who, what, when, from which value to which
What it costs
A personal account is free, a deployment is quoted
Someone with boxes in their garden pays nothing and gives no card number. An organisation gets a quote after a conversation, because there is no single price for twenty boxes and for two thousand.
Personal account — free
You create it yourself on the sign-in screen. Dimensions, calculators and the guide are open without an account too — the account only starts to matter once you want to record your own inspections.
Deployment — after a conversation
The price depends on the number of boxes, the number of people working in the field and on whether an existing registry has to be migrated. The conversation and the quote cost nothing.
What is not on the bill
Data loggers to buy and a subscription for maps. The base map comes from OpenStreetMap under the ODbL licence, with no per-view charges, and the program runs on the phones you already have.
Contact
Let us talk about your area
We will show the app on demonstration data and go through what needs preparing on your side. Four things are needed:
- How the ground is divided
- People and their roles
- A list of boxes in any format, a spreadsheet included
- What exactly you need — what takes the most time today and what you would like to do differently
If the list of boxes is not in any file, write and tell us that too. We have moved a registry off paper before.
We reply within two working days. The first call takes half an hour and commits you to nothing.