Aviculturist

A logbook for people who breed birds: a few pairs at home, a serious aviary, or a farm. Walk the aviary with your phone, tap what you see, and Aviculturist keeps the dates, the pedigrees and the counts, and sets them beside what The Aviculturist's books say about the species. TWO TAPS A PAIR Open a pair and tap what you saw: egg, fertile, clear, hatched, lost, weighed, ringed, fledged. Each is dated today; forgot yesterday, date it back. A wrong tap is undone, never erased. Pairs are known by their looks, so cage numbers are optional. TODAY: WHAT NEEDS DOING One list every morning: eggs to candle, hatches due, chicks to ring and wean, and your own jobs. Dates are worked out egg by egg from your records and the species' figures. Weather for each shed's location warns of heat, cold nights and rain. EVERY BIRD, ITS WHOLE LIFE Parents, looks, ring, microchip, weights, photos and…