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Field notes on wildlife photography, species identification and keeping a photo library you can actually search.

Specio's Home screen with a relief globe centred on the Americas, counters of analysed photos and species, and the five family cards

Analysing a large RAW catalogue: tips for speed

Tens of thousands of RAW files? A few settings make Specio's analysis much faster and keep your computer usable meanwhile: standard previews, background priority, no sleep, and…
Specio's globe in relief over South America, with a selected place in Namibia showing its photo count, species count, lenses used and country

Threatened species in your archive: the IUCN Red List in Specio

Specio flags the species in your photos that the IUCN Red List classes as Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable — and warns you before a precise location could reveal…
Specio's Home screen fully zoomed out: the world shown as two hemispheres dotted with photo locations, beside five coloured cards for birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, marine life, insects and arachnids

Where and when you photographed: the globe and the timeline

Specio's Home screen puts your wildlife photos on a globe and a timeline. Select a region or a period and see which species you found there — and give a place to photos shot…
Specio's Tree of Life view in cascade layout: Animalia at the top, then the Annelida and Arthropoda phyla and their classes, each with a species count

Your photo library as a tree of life

Specio files every animal you've photographed into the classification of life, from kingdom to species. Browse your archive by order, family or genus — and see how your sightings…
Specio's Bulk view on the "Ready to validate" tab: a 90% confidence slider, a "Confirm all" button, and cards of American Alligators and Northern Raccoons with Confirm and Exclude buttons

Sorting thousands of wildlife photos without losing a weekend

Specio's Bulk view sorts every detection by confidence, so you confirm the obvious ones in one click and spend your time only where it's needed. Every batch action can be undone.
Specio's Species view: a grid of bird cards — Greater and Lesser Flamingo, Common Ostrich, Lilac-breasted Roller, a hornbill, a gull, a swan — each with its photo count

No Lightroom? Identify wildlife in folders and Apple Photos

Specio doesn't need Lightroom. Point it at a folder of JPEG, RAW, HEIC or PSD files, or at your Apple Photos library, and it identifies every animal — then writes the species…
Specio's identification screen: three flamingos framed and labelled on the left, the Greater Flamingo's taxonomy and a "Confirm as Greater Flamingo" button on the right

Add species keywords to Lightroom Classic automatically

Specio identifies the animals in your Lightroom Classic catalogue and writes each confirmed species back as a keyword, with its full taxonomy, in your language. Your own keywords…
Three Greater Flamingos wading and feeding in shallow grey water, shown full screen in Specio's Exploration view

Identify the wildlife in your photos, on your own computer

Specio finds the animals in your photo library and proposes a species for each one — entirely on your machine, offline, with nothing uploaded. You confirm; it files your library…
Specio identifying a bird in a photo, next to Lightroom Classic.

Meet Specio: every animal in your photos, named

You remember the moment, the light, the wait. The name of the bird on the third branch, less so. Specio looks at your wildlife photos, finds every animal in them and tells you…