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Your birder

SoundBirdsong, calls and effects

MusicThe menu tune and the in-the-zone loop

Start over

Big Day · South Africa. Species, calls and park rules are checked against BirdLife South Africa and SANParks. Your progress is saved on this device.

Before you go

Choose your birder

Your name

South Africa

1It's 05:30. Find every species on the list for this place. Each morning ends at 10:30, then you're back at first light the next day.
2Choose where to go on the loop. Each stop has its own birds, and some are only active at certain times.
3Drag to scan the environment. Tap a bird to raise your binoculars, then name it before it flies. Get ten different birds right in a row and you'll be in the zone.
4Tap a ♪ note to listen; heard birds count too.
5Keep an eye on your patience, bladder, thirst and hunger. Your backpack helps. And watch out for bogeys: not everything dark in a tree is a bird. Call one right to earn R5 to spend at the shop or the painter's stall.

Best with headphones: calls come from the side they're on.

The loop trail

05:30

Species list

Things that fooled you, or nearly did.

Before you head out

Packed and ready. It's refilled every morning.

Picnic spot

Bird Race · 05:30 to 10:30

Paintings

Nothing on the walls yet. The painter at the picnic spot lays paintings out on the lawn.