Every birding name, in one place

Backyard and the feeder

12 of 30 free

The literal ask. backyardbirder.com is gone, which is not surprising for the plainest two words in the category, but thebackyardbirder.com and thebackyardfieldguide.com are open. The feeder names are a sub-lane of their own and almost nobody has taken them.

Beginners

9 of 23 free

Of your two beginner guesses, beginnerbirder.com is free and beginnerbirding.com is taken. The pattern across this whole lane: the noun form survives, the gerund form is gone, because the gerund is what content farms buy.

Kids

28 of 40 free

The biggest lane and the most open. birdingforbabies.com, your own example, is taken, but nearly everything adjacent to it is free, including getmykidsintobirding.com exactly as you wrote it.

Field guide as a product

9 of 13 free

Where the book idea lives. livingfieldguide.com is taken and thelivingfieldguide.com is not, which is a lucky break, because that is the best available description of the thing you actually described building.

Slow motion

12 of 17 free

Your real differentiator and the only lane here nobody else can copy, because it depends on footage you already own. You hold slowmotionbirds.com; this lane is about whether the idea gets a second, broader name.

Identification

10 of 22 free

Crowded at the obvious phrases and open at the specific ones. whatbirdisthat.com and namethatbird.com are gone; idthatbird.com, spotthatbird.com and birdidapp.com are not. Worth being honest that Merlin owns this behavior and owning the domain is not the same as owning the use case.

Playful brands

5 of 16 free

Mostly taken, which is what happens to warm generic phrases. birdingbuddy.com is gone, and note there is an existing smart-feeder company called Bird Buddy, so that name was never really available to you in the way that matters.

Ornithology, for people who cannot read yet

26 of 27 free

Your idea, and the standout result of the entire report: twenty six of twenty seven names came back free. The joke works because the word is four syllables of lab coat attached to a toddler, and the reason nobody owns it is that nobody has bothered to be funny in this category.

1. The Living Field Guide

thelivingfieldguide.com   available   $11.08 first year · $11.08/yr after

What it is. The thing you described: a field guide where every entry moves. Tap a bird and it flies in slow motion, at the speed where a wingbeat becomes legible. Text, range and song underneath, the way a normal guide works, with the one thing paper cannot do sitting on top.

Why it works for you. This is the clearest product idea in either half of this report, and the name states it exactly. livingfieldguide.com is taken and the the version is not, which is the whole difference. It also sidesteps the illustration problem completely: you are not competing on drawings, you are competing on footage, which you own outright.

Shape. Web first, because the footage is already web-deliverable through the player you shipped in August. App second. Book third, and the book is the merchandise, not the product.

2. Baby's First Field Guide

babysfirstfieldguide.com   available   $11.08 first year · $11.08/yr after

What it is. The board book and its companion app. Ten to fifteen backyard birds, one per spread, with a QR or an app tap that plays the slow-motion clip and the call.

Why it works for you. It is a gift, which is a much easier thing to sell than a reference work. The phrase is warm, it is instantly understood, and it puts the whole ornithology joke in the reader's head without saying the word. It is also the most obviously shelvable name on the list, and shelf logic is the right logic for a book.

Shape. A real printed object plus a free companion app. The app sells the book and the book justifies the app.

3. Ornithology for Babies

ornithologyforbabies.com   available   $11.08 first year · $11.08/yr after

What it is. The joke, done straight. A deliberately over-serious scientific field guide for an audience in diapers: proper taxonomy, proper terminology, rendered in board-book form with a completely deadpan tone.

Why it works for you. You said it was fun, and you are right, but it is more than fun. The gap between the register of the word and the age of the reader is the entire brand, it is memorable in one hearing, and it is the kind of thing people photograph and post. Twenty six of the twenty seven names in this lane are free, which means you can own the whole joke rather than one instance of it.

Shape. Start as one book and one landing page. If it lands, the lane is deep enough to become a series: littleornithologist, juniorornithologist, futureornithologist are all sitting there.

4. Slow Motion Birding

slowmotionbirding.com   yours, bought 9/20   $11.08 first year · $11.08/yr after

What it is. The practice, rather than the footage. You own slowmotionbirds.com, which describes a thing you have. This describes a thing people do, which is what a brand needs to be if it is going to include other people's attention rather than only your files.

Why it works for you. It converts a video library into a point of view: that birding got better when you slowed it down. That is a position you can write from, speak from, and build a guide around, and it is the connective tissue between the footage, the guide and the kids' products.

Shape. The umbrella. Everything else in this lane can sit under it. Hold slomobirds.com alongside as the short form.

5. The Backyard Field Guide

thebackyardfieldguide.com   available   $11.08 first year · $11.08/yr after

What it is. The scoped version, and the one that is actually finishable: not every bird in North America, just the forty or so that show up at a feeder in Middle Tennessee.

Why it works for you. Scope is the reason most field guide projects die, and you already have the inventory for this scope. A complete guide to forty birds beats a partial guide to eight hundred, it ships this year instead of never, and it is the honest version of what your own footage covers.

Shape. The first real product. Do this one to learn the format, then widen.

6. Get My Kids Into Birding

getmykidsintobirding.com   available   $11.08 first year · $11.08/yr after

What it is. A parent-facing how-to: the five birds to start with, what to buy, where to stand, and how long to expect a six-year-old to last before they want to go inside.

Why it works for you. Your own phrase, available exactly as you wrote it, and it is a search query more than a brand, which is the point. Parents type sentences. This one catches them at the moment of intent and hands them whichever product is ready.

Shape. Content funnel, pointing at the book and the app. The least glamorous thing on this list and probably the highest traffic.

7. Beginner Birder

beginnerbirder.com   yours, bought 9/20   $11.08 first year · $11.08/yr after

What it is. The plain-language front door for adults who are curious and slightly embarrassed to be curious.

Why it works for you. It was on your own list, it is free, and it is the noun rather than the gerund, which is why it survived when beginnerbirding.com did not. It also covers the audience the kids products miss: the parent who got interested because the kid did.

Shape. Either a standalone starter guide or the adult tier of the same content the kids products use.

8. See Every Feather

seeeveryfeather.com   available   $11.08 first year · $11.08/yr after

What it is. The line that explains why slow motion matters, used as a brand rather than a tagline.

Why it works for you. Every other name in the slow-motion lane describes the technique. This one describes the payoff, which is the thing a person actually wants. Worth holding even if it never becomes the primary name, because it is the sentence that sells the footage.

Shape. A campaign, a section header, or the name of the premium tier. Cheap to hold, hard to re-create.

9. The ID app name

birdidapp.com   yours, bought 9/20   $11.08 first year · $11.08/yr after

What it is. The identification tool, if you build one: point, shoot, get told, then get shown the slow-motion version of what you just saw.

Why it works for you. Said plainly, Merlin owns bird identification and you are not going to beat it at identification. What Merlin does not do is show you the bird moving after it names it. The domain is worth holding as an option on that, not as a plan to compete head on.

Shape. An option, not a roadmap item. spotthatbird.com and idthatbird.com are also free if a better idea shows up.

10. Raising Birders

raisingbirders.com   yours, bought 9/20   $11.08 first year · $11.08/yr after

What it is. The community and newsletter layer: parents who are doing this, comparing notes, posting what showed up at their feeder.

Why it works for you. It is the recurring-revenue shape in a category otherwise made of one-time purchases. It also generates the thing a guide needs most, which is other people's sightings and photos, and it gives the books somewhere to live after they are bought.

Shape. Newsletter first. Only becomes a community if the newsletter works, and most do not, so do not build software for it yet.