AviAnki: learn the birds where you live

Learn the birds where you live, by sight and sound.

Pick a place, and we'll make you a deck of flashcards of its birds, with photos and sounds.

Where do you go birding?

Not in the list? The website covers the US and Canada for now, and the command-line version works anywhere.

You'll study it in Anki, a flashcard app that's free on computers, Android and the web. See how studying works

Customize your cards

Pick a look. The preview shows how your cards will turn out.

Theme

Name on the photo: show the bird's name across the bottom of the photo on the answer

Anki uses one look for all your AviAnki cards, so a deck with a new theme restyles the ones you already have and replaces any styling you changed yourself. Your look is saved in the page address, so you can bookmark it or share it.

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Question

Answer

More options

How many birds? Standard: the 100 birds seen most often here Everything: all the birds we have for this place, up to 400

Only birds seen here in:

Which cards would you like? Photo: see a bird and name it Audio: hear a bird and name it Photo and audio: see and hear a bird together

Give this place its own deck inside AviAnki, which helps if you make more than one

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Learn the birds where you live, by sight and sound.

Customize your cards

Building your deck

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