eBird crashed?

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Jun 10, 2025, 4:53:58 PM6/10/25

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Just wanted to know if it’s just me or if anyone else is experiencing this. The website is giving me an all-black screen with tiny white words in the upper left-hand corner that say, “service unavailable” sometimes and “bad gateway” other times I try to refresh. Then I’m trying the app, and it will open but it’s completely frozen and I can’t do anything and it says “can’t update”. So is eBird down?

Was going to send them a help request but can’t even do that.

I’ve never seen this happen before.

Thanks!

Wyman Borts

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Jun 10, 2025, 4:56:33 PM6/10/25

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Never mind, now it works. Guess I should have waited a bit. I’m seeing that today eBird surpassed 2 Billion observations, so maybe it didn’t know what to do with that, LOL.

Wendy VanDeWalle

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Jun 10, 2025, 4:58:21 PM6/10/25

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I’m getting that too. I do know the app updated yesterday, so maybe they are doing some maintenance.

Wendy VanDeWalle

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Jun 10, 2025, 5:03:36 PM6/10/25

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Thanks. I’m getting the same error again after it worked briefly.

At least it’s not just me. Hopefully it will resolve soon.

Thanks!

Noah Arthur

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Jun 10, 2025, 6:02:03 PM6/10/25

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Yes eBird is downed. It has been targeted by an unusually large amount of bot traffic and cannot handle juggling that plus the real users.

Noah

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