Where the app opens
What the bird dashboard shows
Home keeps the day’s essentials together: who your bird is, a way to record, the care coming up, any tracker you have on, and six tiles.
Your bird, at the top
A photo and name, then species, life stage, sex and the newest weight in grams. If the weight has moved away from your bird’s own baseline, a line under the name says so.
- The pencil opens the profile
- More than one bird? Switch with one tap
- A weight warning opens the weight screen
Record now
The record button sits right under your bird, because a call will not wait while you hunt through a menu.
- One tap to the record screen
- Your newest reading, with its date
What is due
One line: “Nothing overdue”, or how many care items are due. It tells you without opening the calendar.
- Avian vet exams, beak and nails, baths, cage and toys
- It stands out only when something is due
Conditions and medications
If you turned on a tracker for egg laying, feathers, or weight and liver, it gets its own line with its current status. Medications show the doses still to give today.
- A line stands out when a log needs attention
- Doses given against doses due
The tiles
Six tiles, a few plain words each
Words first, with a coloured dot beside them. Tap a tile to go to its screen.
Vet exam
Worked out from the last avian vet exam you logged, once a year by default and every 6 months for a senior bird. The words are Up to date, Due soon, Overdue or Not logged.
Beak and nails
The beak check, nail check and baths from the care calendar, with wing feathers if you turned that on. It says how many are close or late.
Cage
Cage paper and bowls, the deep clean, the perch and foot check, and the light and sleep check, added up the same way.
Activity
Active today with the minutes, or Nothing yet today. There is no minute goal, because we found no published one.
Droppings
Your latest droppings check from the last 3 days, in words. Blood, black droppings or red urine go straight to the most urgent answer.
Water
Whether fresh water went in today. A note that your bird is drinking a lot more or a lot less sends you to an avian vet within a day.
Under the tiles sit the last daily check, then ways into the vet report and the rest of the health tools.
The thinking
Built so you do not need a manual
Two taps to any health tool
Tap All health tools, then the one you want. Each tile goes to its own screen in a single tap. There is a lot in this app, and this keeps it from feeling like a maze.
One rule, not two
A tile and the screen it opens use the same rules.
Blank never reads as fine
A tile with nothing behind it says Not logged, and tells you what to log. Beak and nails and Cage can turn green once one item in the group is logged, so check the calendar for items never logged.
A clear dashboard is not a clean bill of health
Birds hide illness and often keep eating when sick, so a steady weight or a run of normal checks does not prove your bird is well. The app says this on the screens themselves. Green means nothing has been flagged in what you logged.
If your bird looks unwell, do not wait for a tile to change. Read the signs of a sick bird and call your avian vet.
Sources: Association of Avian Veterinarians · Merck Veterinary Manual, Illness in Pet Birds
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