Dunkadoo

Dunkadoo builds tools to help scientists study our natural world and make science more accessible to the public. We are a non-profit founded by two birders who also happen to be software developers. We noticed that professional counters at migration sites were still using paper to record the birds they count. After a long day, they went back to a computer and transferred all that data by hand. It seemed so 20th century! Thus, our first tools help counters enter data on a device and display it on the web instantly. Even better, we provide a display for each site that’s fun for the public to explore. Our goal: make it possible to digitally see waves of migration as they’re happening. If you’re wondering about the name, it’s an old term for the bird we know now as the American Bittern. “Dunk-a-doo” is the sound the bird seems to make from its secretive place in a marsh!