Flyway: Bird Forecast

Birder heading out? Check today's birding score from wind, pressure, and front timing for your habitat. Know when to go and when fallout is likely.

Stop guessing whether today's dawn drive is worth the gas. Flyway turns the weather forecast into a birding conditions score — GO, FAIR, or SKIP — for your specific habitat.

Every birder knows the feeling: you check five apps, squint at wind arrows and pressure charts, and still second-guess whether to hit your patch before sunrise. Flyway does the synthesis for you, combining wind direction, pressure trend, cold-front timing, visibility, and dawn window into a single readable score.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Choose your birding style: coastal seawatcher, inland forest, raptor ridge, or waterfowl marsh.
2. Flyway pulls the current weather for your location — wind, pressure, fronts, visibility, sunrise.
3. You get today's birding score (0-100) with the top three factors driving it, plus an hourly breakdown.

It takes 20 seconds to set up. No account required.

TODAY'S SCORE A single number with GO, FAIR, or SKIP category and the reasons behind it. Dawn window timing, hourly trend, and the factors that matter most for your habitat today.

HABITAT-AWARE Same weather reads differently for different birders. Flyway knows that onshore wind helps a seawatcher but calm air helps a warbler chaser, and that thermals matter for raptor days. Your habitat shapes your score.

SCORE EXPLANATION Every score comes with the top three factors pushing it up or down, so you understand why today is what it is instead of just trusting a number.

Upgrade to Pro for deeper insights:

• 7-day forecast with daily scores and category outlook
• Overnight migration fallout alerts — get pinged when south wind and an overnight front line up for a spring fallout event
• Save up to 10 hotspots (home patch, weekend spot, vacation destinations)
• Best-time window: top three hours for today's birding, factoring dawn, thermals, and front timing
• Monthly species activity hints tied to your local season calendar

PRIVACY FIRST All preferences and hotspots are stored locally on your device. No account. No tracking. Location coordinates are sent only to Open-Meteo to fetch weather data for your area. They are never stored, logged, or transmitted to any server we operate.

This app provides birding conditions estimates based on weather data. It is not a substitute for field experience or a field guide for species identification. Bird activity depends on site, habitat, food availability, and many factors beyond weather.

Weather data provided by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0).

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