What is AviAtlas ?

Aviatlas is a free website for exploring and sharing information about birding hotspots around the world. Think of it as a map-based wiki for birding hotspots. It provides birders the opportunity to explore and edit hotspot descriptions, photographs, recent visits and sightings anywhere in the world.

Ways to Use

Plan your birding trips; Document your sightings; Develop your favorite hotspot bar-graphs; Share your wealth of localized knowledge; Connect with other birders; and Document & Share your adventures.

Why Participate

Aviatlas provides numerous rewarding birding tools to compliment our hobby. With the wiki setup there is an opportunity to both learn and share local information like never before. On top of this, Aviatlas records all data in a scientifically rigorous manner to insure it's usefulness for future research and studies.

About Us

Aviatlas was founded by Eva Baird and Aaron Floyd in 2007 in an effort to build a free online community to document birding hotspots around the world. The roots of the project developed in the adventure atmosphere of the Blue Ridge Birders in SW Virginia. Currently the project is located in Tucson, Arizona where it's core users are constantly collaborating to improve the functions of Aviatlas.

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Project Sponsor

Support the development of the AviAtlas project and receive primary acknowledgement on the AviAtlas launch page and web application interface. Contact us for more information.

Hotspot Sponsor

Get your advertisement, project, company or event placed on AviAtlas hotspots. Currently hotspot sponsorship is based on defined areas that can cover a state, province, region, or entire country. Contact us to find out about pricing and availability.

Affiliations

We would like to extend a big thanks to eBird and Birdlife International for providing an enormous number of hotspot locations, data, and links.

If you are an organization that accumulates avian or location data and would like the opportunity to share the data with the worldwide birding community, please contact us.

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Announcements

Tucson Audubon Living With Nature

02/09/10 ~ ~

AviAtlas presented the Tucson area hotspot collaboration to the members of Tucson Audubon Society yesterday and recieved a warm welcome! The presentation included a brief tour of user adde... Learn more>

updated hotspots

27,249 hotspot locations 572 hotspot descriptions

Tikal 03/10/10
Guatemala · Petén
Caye Caulker 03/09/10
Belize · Belize
RAVEN'S NEST WILDLIFE SANCTUARY 03/01/10
US · Arizona
ANP BONAMPAK 02/27/10
Mexico · Chiapas
Arivaca Cienaga 02/14/10
US · Arizona

new hotspot photos

Booted Racket-tail

Uploaded by: Nick Hajdukovich 03/10/10

Tandayapa

top 100 hotspots

1. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Uganda · UG.24
2. Vidawa Rainforest Walk, Bouma, Taveuni
Fiji · FJ.
3. Samsonvale Cemetery
Australia · Queensland
4. Lijiang - Black Dragon Pool Gardens
China · Yunnan Province
5. Ayutthaya Historical Park, Thailand
Thailand · Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya

top aviatlas listers

37,399 observations recorded in 2,773 sighting records.

1. Matt! Brooks1,226 species
2. birdman538567 species
3. J9McCabe554 species
4. RogerS436 species
5. Allen Boynton390 species