A field companion for bird surveys and community research in Pakistan. Survey teams record structured, protocol-based counts at remote lakes and mountain valleys with no network at all, and researchers turn recorded interviews into a searchable, translated memory they can question in plain English.
Narrated by Ehsan. The app screens are recreated for the film with sample data, and interviewees appear only as anonymous labels.
Bird surveys in Pakistan happen at remote lakes, deserts and high valleys, and the records usually end up in notebooks that are hard to combine, check or share. Community knowledge, what herders and villagers have seen over years, is even harder to keep: hours of interviews in several languages that nobody can search once they’re recorded.
Survey Mode is organised as campaigns, sessions and observations. A campaign picks one of four standard protocols (point count, transect, waterbird count or breeding bird survey), records the site by GPS, and gets a short join code so a whole team can contribute. Each outing is a session with its conditions (sky, wind, temperature, visibility) and running totals. An observation takes seconds: search a built-in catalogue of 476 species offline, count birds seen and heard, and tap in distance, detection method, sex, age and behaviour. All 19 standard breeding codes are built in and classified automatically as possible, probable or confirmed, and every observation exports straight to a spreadsheet.
Field Research records interviews in Urdu, English, Pashto, Punjabi or a mix, under an anonymous label, even with no signal. Back online, the audio is transcribed with timestamps, cleaned up, translated into English and indexed. Each interview has three views (cleaned, raw and English) where tapping a line jumps the audio to that moment, and researchers can ask all their interviews a question and get an answer drawn only from what people said, with citations to the exact moment. A trip log, a live sightings map, a species guide with bird calls and a voice diary for every trip round it out.
| Frontend | React 19 + Vite + Tailwind, installable PWA with a Workbox service worker |
| Offline | IndexedDB queues for records, photos and recordings; a bundled species catalogue |
| Maps | Leaflet, for sites and the live sightings map |
| AI pipeline | Whisper transcription, Claude for clean-up and translation, semantic search with embeddings, run by a scheduled queue |
| Hosting | Shared hosting on Hostinger, at wildwonders.com.pk/survey |
Live at wildwonders.com.pk/survey. The core survey app is feature-complete, and Field Research and trip voice notes are working in production.
If your fieldwork happens far from a signal, the tools can still be built to keep every record safe and every voice findable.