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How to find birding log apps Instagram creators

Creator-powered user acquisition

I still start with the same avatar. Instagram is a different room than TikTok. Reels, the grid, and the bio email are different. The person is not.

The person: US English, 28-55, already bounced off eBird they find heavy in the field and a paper checklist that blew away, watches eBird will not load on this trail and dawn-walk videos with gloves on. They watch eBird-will-not-load, dawn-walk, gloves-on, paper-checklist-blew-away. They already tried eBird they find heavy in the field, a paper checklist that blew away, and a photos album of birds they cannot name later. Skip the 300k bird-influencer whose grid is a 4k-dollar lens unboxing.

Instagram birding is stills of lenses; TikTok at dawn is the failed submit. Email the dawn.

What I actually do on Instagram

Fresh account. Real phones. I try to put myself in the shoes of the person who would download this. Linger, save, like, comment as if I were them. Once the algorithm is trained I take whoever keeps showing up in Reels and in the feed.

Ideally over 50k average. Below that they quote $700 a post for 1k views. That’s a money sink.

Example I want to see: someone losing a dawn sighting because the app wanted a full form on one bar of signal. Signal: the same dawn-failed-submit face two walks.

I prefer email. The contact is usually in a small dawn-walk bio. Just send a short note. Name a real Reel. Ask for the phone number. Don’t start the deal over email. If they won’t, move on.

Reels vs FYP

TikTok’s For You is a night session for eBird-will-not-load, dawn-walk, gloves-on, paper-checklist-blew-away. Instagram still has a grid, a bio, and a Shop sticker. Instagram birding is stills of lenses; TikTok at dawn is the failed submit. Email the dawn.

Do not copy the TikTok outreach into a DM that looks like a bot. The call is still the job. Minimum View Guarantee. Example: $2000 / 4 posts / 1M views. Talent extra.

Like a 4k-dollar lens and you will leave the dawn-gloves people. Doing it by hand is kind of soul-crushing. Scout is $1,500/month.

The TikTok-side essay is How we find creators by scrolling a real TikTok avatar. First person: How I find influencers. Money: jumptrend.co/for/birding-logs.

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