I’m writing to share birdsync, a tool I wrote to sync my eBird observations to iNaturalist: https://github.com/Sajmani/birdsync Birdsync’s purpose is to enable eBirders to easily contribute to the iNaturalist community. Based on feedback from the iNaturalist folks, I’ve tuned birdsync to create hi…

I had hoped to make it bidirectional, too! Unfortunately eBird doesn’t provide an API for writing checklists. Kudos to iNaturalist for providing an open platform!

I imagine it would be feasible to convert exported iNat data into one of the spreadsheet formats that eBird accepts for checklist submission?

That’s a neat idea! I might check that out next

This could be very helpful! I do have one question: does it result in doubled GBIF records? Or does eBird not talk to GBIF?

It does result in duplication (I think eBird is the largest dataset in GBIF and iNat is the second largest) although I’m not sure how big of a deal that is. Many birders have been putting their bird observations on both platform for years. Old thread discussing it here .

Hopefully someone who actually works with the data could confirm but my understanding is because GBIF data is meant to be the widest conglomeration of data from different sources there’s no real expectation of a lack of overlap or redundancy. After all, the same cool vagrant bird could rack up dozen…

[image] upupa-epops: It does result in duplication (I think eBird is the largest dataset in GBIF and iNat is the second largest) although I’m not sure how big of a deal that is. Many birders have been putting their bird observations on both platform for years. Old thread discussing it here . T…

I agree that duplication is not ideal, though responsible researchers will deal with it. I don’t know exactly how eBird data compares to iNat data in structure/formatting, so it could be easy or more difficult. One other issue with duplication is just that it creates unnecessary work for IDers on i…

some related threads: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/importing-ebird-to-inaturalist/53839/5 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/syncing-inaturalist-observations-to-ebird/49213/5

Birdsync: a tool to sync verifiable eBird observations to iNaturalist

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alinacosette September 9, 2025, 4:09pm 3

Interesting! I’ll have to share this with some folks. I wish it would go the other way around–I’m way behind on uploading my data to eBird. But thank you! A great tool.

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