NaturalistTripper

Find wildlife before you go.

NaturalistTripper turns millions of community observations into a real trip plan — for birders, botanists, herpers, mushroom hunters, and anyone who travels to see living things.

FOUR WAYS TO PLAN
• Radius — drop a point and search around it.
• Area — draw a polygon over the zone you'll actually cover.
• Route — import a GPX, KML, or GeoJSON trail (or pull from Maps directions) and see what's been seen along it.
• Species — pick a species and find where it turns up, anywhere.

SEE WHERE A SPECIES CONCENTRATES
• Heat map — the observations behind a Species search, drawn as a density surface, so a hundred reports over one valley no longer look like a hundred across a state.
• Baseline range — the species' expected range underneath, from iNaturalist's curated range maps, or its modelled distribution where none exists.
• Observation pins on or off, so the surface stays readable.
"Reported here" and "expected here" stay separate claims — the app never merges them. Heat and range are Pro.

BACKED BY REAL OBSERVATIONS
Three of the largest community science datasets in one map:
• iNaturalist — millions of verified species observations
• eBird — bird sightings from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
• GBIF — global biodiversity records

EVERY OBSERVATION IS RANKED
Recency, verifier count, and research-grade status are weighted into a confidence score so you spend your time on sightings that actually mean something.

MULTI-STOP TRIPS
Chain your saved plans into a single itinerary with a combined species view across every stop — a road trip across hotspots in one shared list.

CONDITIONS AT A GLANCE
Sunrise, sunset, civil dusk, and moon phase for the day and place you're planning — because dawn light changes everything.

WANTLIST
Star the species you most want to see. Sightings that match your wantlist get priority in results and trigger optional alerts.

ON THE TRAIL
• Offline-friendly saved plans with prefetched photos
• Optional alerts when fresh sightings appear near a saved plan
• Tap any species for an ID sheet with photos, recent sightings, and how to tell it apart

EXPORT YOUR PLANS
• GPX & KML files with species hotspot waypoints, ready for Garmin, Gaia, or your favorite trail app
• Trip Itinerary and Plan Dossier PDFs with embedded map snapshots and species photos
• Wantlist