Aviary summary

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The Aviary summary turns the data you already record into a useful view of population, breeding and trends. There is nothing extra to fill in: figures are recalculated from your birds, pairs, clutches and eggs.

Opening it and choosing a year

On Home, tap the Aviary summary card. Population figures reflect the current aviary; the breeding section can be changed with the year selector at the top.

The selector includes the current year and every year for which you have recorded clutches. Changing it never edits data: it only changes the period being analysed.

Each clutch counts in the year of its laying date. The exception is a season opened for another year — for example, the 2027 season started in October 2026: whatever is laid before that year arrives counts towards it. See Breeding seasons.

Current population

The first section distinguishes the full historical register from birds that are still in the aviary:

total and active birds;
males, females and unsexed birds among the active population;
active pairs and foster birds;
sick, on-loan, transferred, donated, lost or unknown-status birds;
overall mortality, calculated over all bird records.

Transferred, deceased, donated and lost birds remain in the history, but not in the active population. This is why the historical total can be higher than the active-bird count shown on Home.

Breeding year

For the selected year you can review:

total and completed clutches;
total, evaluated and pending eggs;
clear, aborted, broken and failed eggs;
hatched, live, deceased and independent chicks;
breeding success and chick mortality.

Breeding success compares independent chicks with eggs that already have an outcome. Eggs still incubating remain pending and do not distort the percentage. Breeding mortality compares deceased chicks with those that hatched.

Early mortality

If you record both the actual hatch date and the date a chick died, the early-mortality chart groups losses by day of life. Records missing either date are kept and shown separately as unknown age.

The chart does not diagnose a cause, but it helps reveal whether losses cluster at a particular stage and which records deserve a closer review.

Species and sex

The species map uses active birds only. It shows each species' share of the aviary and a complete ranking split into males, females and unsexed birds.

Names are displayed in the app's language, while grouping uses the species' stable identity. Changing language never splits or duplicates a species in the statistics.

Aviary value

From the Aviary value card you can view the total economic valuation of the birds currently in your aviary (transferred, donated, lost or deceased birds are not counted).

It displays:

the total value and the average value per bird;
the count of valued birds and how many remain unvalued;
the breakdown by species and each species' economic share;
a growth chart that reconstructs monthly evolution using current prices.

If a bird has no estimated value but has a purchase price, the app uses that price as an estimate. To value an individual bird, tap ⋮ → Estimated value from its record. To value multiple birds at once, tap Value birds on this screen: you can filter by “Only birds without a value” to bulk-assign amounts without overwriting already valued birds. You can also narrow down with the species and year chips or the search box to value, for example, all your canaries at once; and in the breakdown by species, tapping a species with birds without a value opens Value birds with that species already selected.

The estimated value does not create income or expenses in your accounts: it measures your aviary's assets, not money in motion. See The value of your aviary.

Exporting the summary

Use the share icon to export the selected year as:

CSV, for analysis in a spreadsheet;
HTML, to open in any browser;
PDF, with Mis Plumas branding and your aviary logo when configured.

Exports include population, species and sex breakdown, breeding outcomes and early mortality. In Mis Plumas Web they download through the browser; on mobile you can also save or share them with the system options.