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Play a quiz
Pick your level: start easy with distinctive birds, or go hard with rare lookalikes.
Free bird identification training
Improve your birding skills.
Free photo quizzes, personalised practice and country challenges for birders worldwide.
What is Motmot?
Motmot is a free bird-identification training app. It helps birders learn to recognise species through photo, video and sound quizzes, personalised practice and country challenges. You can sign in with Google so Motmot can create your account and save your scores and learning progress.
How Motmot teaches
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Review your answers
See more photos of your answer and of the right bird. A comparison explains how the two species differ.
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Learn what you missed
After a few games, the species you get wrong most appear in My Tricky Birds. There you can play quizzes on just those birds and pairs.
What you can play
Motmot is built around different ways to train. Pick a short custom quiz, grind a country list, race survival, compete in the national league, play with a flock, or drill the species you keep missing.
Photos, sounds and video
Normal quizzes
Play a single game with full control: difficulty, length, and optionally a taxonomic family. Stick to photos, or switch to sound or video when you want another style of practice.
Multiplayer. A live quiz for two or more players. Faster correct answers score more points—great for a desk duel or a club night.
Shared games. Invite friends to play the very same quiz, each on their own time. Everyone has 3 days—or whatever limit you set—and then you compare scores.
Learn a whole country
Country Challenge
Study the birds of one country from start to finish. It begins quite easy, but as you progress through levels things get tougher—be warned, the end is really tough.
Compete with your country
National League
Compete against other birders from your country. You play one daily quiz that starts easy and finishes harder. There is a daily winner and a weekly champion—this is the real competition.
Play with friends
Flocks
Play with a group of fellow birders in a small competition. You get one shared game each week, and every member has the entire week to complete it.
Fix your weak spots
My Tricky Birds
After you have played some games, open Difficult species to see what you miss most and which pairs you mix up a lot. Play focused quizzes to close those gaps in your birding knowledge.
One life
Survival
A quick game, always at Pro level—so rarities are included too. One wrong answer and you are out. See if you can set a nice record for your country.
Track your progress
High scores & checklist
See how you rank after a quiz, and which birds you have named correctly in your country—plus the ones you still miss.
Suggest a game type
More game types? Can you think of other ways to train your knowledge—or just another fun mode? Leave us a message. We are very open to new ideas.
Study a country list
What birders say
I gave Motmot a quick spin and immediately found it incredibly useful. Kudos to the developer!
The bird comparisons are thorough and could really help people improve their identification skills.
Motmot works well—even with Finnish bird names.
The Pro and Expert levels offer exactly the kind of serious identification training I was looking for.
The app looks appealing and friendly, while the higher levels provide a genuine challenge.
I really like the similar-species tests. They’re a great way to practise difficult birds.
Motmot has massively improved my bird recognition in a surprisingly short time.
A fun and educational way to sharpen your bird-identification skills.
The Country Challenge is great! It’s a fun way to learn the birds of different countries.
A great way to study the birds you might encounter on your next trip.
The confusing-pairs games make practising difficult species both focused and fun.
I’m very happy with Motmot. It’s a fantastic initiative, and it keeps getting better.
Community and FAQ
Community
Motmot is a small project. Send feedback or review photos if you know a country’s birds.
FAQ
Is Motmot free? Does it identify birds from a photo? Where can I play?
Support Motmot
Motmot is free, open source, and built in spare time. There is no funding behind it right now. A donation via Buy Me a Coffee helps cover hosting and AI credits so the quiz can stay free.
Donating is one way. If you have another idea for how to fund Motmot—a partnership, a grant, a club, a company—write to info@motmot.club. I would like to talk.
Get Motmot on your phone
The apps are the best way to practise. The browser works too if you want to try a quiz first.
