About

An unofficial, non-commercial hub for birding in Travis County, Texas. It is built from public eBird data and is not affiliated with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Credits

• Sightings and checklists: eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
• Seasonal patterns, county records and hotspot history (“Through the year”, “Look for now”, “What to expect”), checklists from before the site went live (Sep 17, 2026), and the Travis vs Texas comparisons: derived from the eBird Basic Dataset (Travis County and Texas). Version: EBD_relSep-2026. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Sep 2026. Used for non-commercial purposes under the eBird data terms of use; the raw data is not redistributed.
• Forecast and overnight outlook: National Weather Service (api.weather.gov).
• Lake Travis level: U.S. Geological Survey, gauge 08154500.
• Current temperature, and past weather on Trends: Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
• Photos and descriptions: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, credited on each photo.
• Recordings: xeno-canto, credited on each recording.
• Map tiles: OpenFreeMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Leaderboard

The leaderboard is unofficial and built from public eBird checklists, using display names only. If you'd like your name left off it, email us and we'll remove it.

Privacy

Private locations, such as backyards, are never pinned precisely or named. Sensitive species locations are hidden by eBird and we don't work around that.