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Bird pedigree chart maker
Fill in the bird, its parents and grandparents — with band numbers and mutations — and print a clean pedigree for a buyer, a show entry or your own cage card. Add great-grandparents and it checks the pair for shared ancestors.
1. The bird
2. Parents
3. Grandparents
4. Great-grandparents
Live preview. Prints on one landscape page.
Pedigree
Unnamed bird
Species · sex · mutation · band
Printed Oct 8, 2026
Sire
Unknown
Dam
Unknown
Sire's sire
Unknown
Sire's dam
Unknown
Dam's sire
Unknown
Dam's dam
Unknown
No ancestor appears on both the sire and dam side of this chart.
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Made with the free pedigree chart maker at birdtracks.io
Shared-ancestor check: enter band numbers and the chart flags any bird that appears on both the sire's and the dam's side, with an inbreeding coefficient for the generations shown.
Keep every pedigree automatically — BirdTracks builds this chart for every bird you add
Record a pairing once and every chick's pedigree, band number and COI fills itself in — and stays there next season. No retyping grandparents.
Start a 30-day free trialFilling it in from your records
- Use band or ring numbers wherever you have them. Names repeat across aviaries; a closed band does not. The shared-ancestor check matches on the band first.
- Write splits after a slash — “Green /Dutch Blue” means a visual green carrying Dutch blue. Buyers planning their own pairings read this column first.
- Leave unknown birds blank. They print as “Unknown”, which is honest. A bought-in bird with no papers is a normal pedigree, not a broken one.
- Sire on top, dam below, at every generation — the same layout breed societies use, so the chart reads the way judges expect.
Where a paper chart stops working
A hand-filled chart is fine for one bird. With 20 pairs and a season of chicks you are retyping the same grandparents into every chart, and a single wrong band number hides exactly the relationship you were trying to catch. In BirdTracks, a chick gets its parents when you log the clutch, so its pedigree and COI exist the moment it is added. Read how that works on the bird pedigree software page, or see what records a breeder should keep. Still on a spreadsheet? Our breeding spreadsheet guide shows the columns that make a later import painless.
Need an editable vector file instead? The pedigree tree builder exports SVG. Checking a pairing that is not on paper yet? Try the inbreeding calculator.
Questions
- Is the pedigree chart maker really free?
- Yes. There is no signup and nothing to install. The chart is built in your browser, and your last draft is kept on this device only so a refresh does not wipe it.
- How do I save the chart as a PDF?
- Click "Print or save as PDF" and choose "Save as PDF" as the printer. The page prints only the chart, on one landscape sheet, with a signature line for sale paperwork.
- What does the shared-ancestor warning mean?
- If the same bird (matched by band or ring number) appears on both the sire’s and the dam’s side, the parents are related. The tool adds up Wright’s path coefficient for the generations shown, so a shared great-grandsire on each side gives 3.13% and half-sibling parents give 12.5%.
- How many generations should a bird pedigree show?
- Three generations (parents and grandparents) is the usual minimum for a sale or show bird. Four generations catches more line-breeding — most hidden relationships between a pair sit at the great-grandparent level.