Maiyo Research Institute · biodiversity
Bird workspaces
Choose a checklist, follow the week's sound and media arrivals, or practise identifying calls. Each workspace keeps its own provenance and its own workflow.
Workspaces
Six ways into the bird record
Two are checklists you can filter, three follow what the archives gained this week, and one is a private desk that publishes nothing.
Birds of Rwanda
717 species · National checklist
The Rwandan national list, with taxonomy, conservation status and the audio and media coverage behind each species.
OpenEast African bird list
1,706 species · Regional index
One checklist reconciled across eight national lists, filterable by country presence, conservation status and rarity.
OpenXeno-canto sounds
Weekly · Sound archive
Field recordings across birds, bats, frogs, insects and mammals, with the species that still have no audio named rather than hidden.
OpeneBird & Macaulay
Weekly snapshot · Media archive
Photographs, audio and video from the Macaulay Library across nine countries, with a permanent archive of every weekly comparison.
OpenBird sound quiz
5 calls a day · Practice
Five recordings to identify against plausible regional candidates, with a streak and an accuracy history you keep.
OpenSound review
Private · Review desk
Review your own recordings against model suggestions and reference sounds. Nothing here is published or indexed.
OpenChecklist links open the source catalogues. Coverage counts describe what has been submitted to those archives — they are not estimates of abundance, population size or survey completeness.