Bird
Bird is a shared electric scooter and bike micromobility operator headquartered in Miami, Florida and operating as the global anchor brand of Third Lane Mobility, Inc. Founded in 2017 by Travis VanderZanden, Bird pioneered the dockless electric scooter category in Santa Monica, California and rapidly expanded to hundreds of cities across North America, Europe, and the Middle East. After overstating revenue, delisting from the NYSE in September 2023 (ticker BRDS), and filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2023, Bird emerged in April 2024 under the new private parent company Third Lane Mobility, Inc., which also owns the Spin brand acquired from TIER in September 2023. Bird operates the Bird Three e-scooter and a Bird Bikeshare service, plus the Bird Platform white-label program for independent fleet operators and a Cities partner program that ships "in-depth APIs" and operator dashboards to municipal partners. Bird publishes public General Bikeshare Feed Specification (GBFS) auto-discovery feeds at mds.bird.co for 88+ cities across 12 countries (AT, BE, CA, CH, DE, ES, FI, FR, IL, IT, PT, US), and operates a private city-data portal at city-data.bird.co for credentialed municipal API access. There is no public consumer / 3rd-party developer API or SDK — the consumer surface is the iOS and Android Bird apps, the Bird Three product site, and the Bikeshare site. The undocumented mobile backend at api.birdapp.com / api-auth.prod.birdapp.com is well-documented in the community WoBike project but is not officially sanctioned for third-party use.
APIs
Bird GBFS Feed
Bird's public General Bikeshare Feed Specification (GBFS) v2.3 auto-discovery feeds. Each city has its own auto-discovery document at https://mds.bird.co/gbfs/v2/public/{city}/g...
Bird City Data Portal
Credentialed city / municipal data portal at https://city-data.bird.co providing partner cities with access to fleet, trip, and operational data feeds beyond the public GBFS sur...
Bird Platform (Fleet Operator)
Bird Platform is the white-label fleet operator program that lets independent local operators run a Bird-branded e-scooter service in their own market using Bird vehicles, the B...
Bird Mobile App Backend (Unofficial)
The undocumented mobile-app backend that powers the Bird iOS and Android consumer apps. Hosts include api.birdapp.com, api-auth.prod.birdapp.com, and api-bird.prod.birdapp.com. ...