12/22/2025
2025 has been an incredible year for the Terra community! We wanted to share a few things we accomplished this year...
1. We launched the Terra Network! There are more than 2,000 Terra Stations around the country (and the world) now, taking in massive amounts of data and connecting people to the nature all around them. A few stats: Terra identified over 103 million birds and had almost 1 million hits on 142 unique radio tags. Our participation in the Monarch Project, which tracked Monarch butterflies to their roosts in Mexico, is just one example of the collective power of community science!
2. We launched the new app....twice! V1 of the app helped get a lot of people going with Terra, but it turned out to have a lot of issues that we didn't like. We moved development in-house, and we've completely re-written the app for iOS and expect to have the Android version out in January. Some of the features in the new app (including a few that will be here very soon) include - streamlined and improved setup for Terra Stations, a cleaner interface, improved stats, yard list and species review features, new filters for history, international language support, autonomous recording mode, more bird images, and much more!
3. We improved the website - we've now aligned the user area of the website with the app, so all the features in the app are on the web and visa versa.
4. We added TV support - we now have apps for Fire TV, Samsung, LG and Apple TV, so you can listen to Terra directly through your entertainment system.
5. We developed sound filtering - including human voice removal! this is ongoing, but soon we'll have significant improvements for sound filtering that will make listening to your Terra better and more relaxing - no more road noise, airplane noise, and other human-made sounds.
6. We added BirdGenie - as part of standardizing and improving ID, we licensed BirdGenie, the current standard for Bird ID software. It's a big improvement, but we are actually working on adding other ID engines of our own (and others') design, so you can choose what works best for you.
7. We shipped antennas - we were able to get out antennas to help users increase their detection and wifi ranges and pick up more radio tags in their area.
8. We made lots of firmware updates - the physical Terra Stations have been holding up in all kinds of conditions out there, from hurricanes to blizzards to blazing heat. Meanwhile, we've been souping up the internal software, and making them more stable, more capable, and just generally better - something we intend to continue into the future.
9. We built a customer service portal - we answered over 2500 tickets in 2025, and are about to release a self-diagnostic tool for users that will solve many issues with just a few clicks.
That's a quick summary - I'm sure we've left a lot out. We'll have a future post on what's coming in the New Year, but for now we just want to say thanks to our Terra community for making this dream come true. There's so much more to come, and we're so happy that we get to go there with you!
