BirdBench
BirdBench makes small, free tools for North American birders, from hummingbird nectar ratios to nest box dimensions. One of them ranks eBird hotspots by species count times months since anyone filed a checklist, surfacing the good patch everyone drives past.
Why it earned its spot
The homepage is laid out like a field manual: bone-white ground, a heavy grotesque headline, and six tool cards each stamped with a black-and-gold FIG. tab, as though the page were a plate from a reference book. Original line drawings — hummingbird, tube feeder, nest box, binoculars — carry the cards instead of stock bird photography, and a single goldfinch yellow does all the accent work, behind the wordmark, on the figure tags, under the links. Below, the field notes run as plain dated rows, and the closing block states flatly that there is no newsletter yet. For an audience used to gear blogs, the restraint reads as competence.
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