Using Species and your life list
Browse every species you have recorded in Field Chronicle, filter by group, and reopen notes, maps, and photos from one list.
Field Chronicle isn’t trying to be “another photo gallery”—it’s trying to be the operating system for your time in the field.
Species is the catalog and life-list view: every taxon you have recorded, with Wikipedia summaries and a path back to the outings, notes, maps, and photographs behind each name. It is a natural-history record, not a keyword list.
American avocet
Great egret
Marsh harrier
Common kestrel
Species of the day
Great egret
A life-list pick to revisit — open a tile to replace this pane.
Species is your life-list catalog — thumbnail tiles, filters, and an A–Z jump. Species of the Day waits until you pick a name.
Browse the list like a field guide index
Filter by group, jump by letter, and open a species to see what you have actually logged—not only a global Wikipedia page. The catalog is shared; your sightings on it are personal. That split keeps identification reference close without mixing other people’s lists into yours.
Reopen notes, maps, and photos
From a species page you reach the sightings and images attached to that taxon. Use this when you are comparing plumage across seasons or checking whether you have been to a site for this bird before. It is faster than scrolling Sightings when the question starts with the name.
Why a life list belongs in the journal
A life list that cannot show the day, the place, and a photograph is only a score. Field Chronicle keeps the score next to the evidence. For birders that is the main payoff. Photographers use the same list to find every frame of a subject without treating the name as an editor tag. Nature lovers can ignore the list until a name becomes interesting. Public checklists still belong in the tools built for citizen science; this list is yours.
Log new taxa through Sightings. See the birder guide for a full workflow.