Acknowledgements

About the maker

Jenny Macdonald made Dawn Chorus Quest to celebrate and learn about British bird songs, and to explore how the sound of daybreak is changing. You can read more about the ideas behind the game, its inspirations, and how it won "best app" at the Bath Digital Festival Buildathon on Jenny's blog.

Built with

• Lovable — the AI app builder that turned sketches and ideas into this playable game.
• GreenPT — used to help shape the app's eco-conscious design and content choices.
• React 19 — UI components and interactions.
• TanStack Start — full-stack routing and server functions.
• Tailwind CSS v4 — styling and design tokens.
• TypeScript — type-safe code across the stack.
• Vite 7 — fast builds and the dev server.

Bird data & media

Species facts, photographs, and bird-call recordings are sourced from Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, shared under Creative Commons and public-domain licences. Every bird card in the field guide shows the original photographer or recorder credit.

Thank you to the many citizen scientists and contributors who record, photograph, and document birds for everyone to learn from.

Inspired by

• Bath Digital Festival hackathon — where the first version of this app was sketched in a weekend of playful experimentation.
• International Dawn Chorus Day — the annual celebration of birdsong at sunrise that reminded us why listening matters.