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Brandyn Britton

I photograph birds around Perth and built BirdUp, a birding app for Australia. On weekdays I write software at Healthengine.

Birds come first on this page. If you're here for the engineering, skip to how BirdUp is built.

A Willie Wagtail perched on the back of a wooden bench, giving the camera a sideways look.
Willie Wagtail, Rhipidura leucophrys. Bombastic side-eye.Mar 2026 · 600mm · f/6.3 · 1/800s · ISO 1600

BirdUp

A field notebook and field guide for Australian birds that also scouts what's worth looking for nearby. It works without reception, and it hides the locations of threatened species.

App StoreGoogle Playbirdup.com.au

850+ species · free on iOS and Android

A logged Willie Wagtail sighting in BirdUp
Log the bird while it's still on the branch.
The Rainbow Bee-eater species page in BirdUp
Every species page tells you whether it's here this month.
The explore map in BirdUp showing nearby sightings
See what other birders found nearby.

From the field

All photos
A Tawny Frogmouth dozing against a paperbark trunk, eyes shut and feathers fluffed.
Tired Tawny Frogmouth
A New Holland Honeyeater calling with its bill wide open, perched on a bare twig.
New Holland Honeyeater, screaming
An Australian Pelican on dark water with its bill raised, water trickling from the tip.
Pelican fountain
A Nankeen Night Heron standing on a fallen log, seen through a gap in the leaves.
Spying on a Nankeen Night Heron

How BirdUp is built

Rails 8 · PostGIS · React Native · Expo · Next.js · WorkOS

Offline first

Sightings save on the phone and sync when it has signal again.

Photo ID that knows where it is

Suggestions are weighted by the species that occur near you that month.

Threatened species stay hidden

Their locations are obscured automatically, even from the AI.

Open source

Work