# Bird

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bird-rides/  
**Website:** https://www.bird.co  
**APIs profiled:** 10

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.

## Kin Score — 37.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 63.9 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 15.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Free · Requires approval — onboarding: approval, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (10)

- **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. ...
- **Bird Discovery API** — GBFS auto-discovery and version metadata
- **Bird Geofencing API** — No-ride / no-parking polygon zones
- **Bird Pricing API** — Rider-facing pricing plans
- **Bird Realtime API** — Real-time feeds with 60-second TTL
- **Bird Stations API** — Docking-station information (mostly empty for free-floating Bird markets)
- **Bird System API** — System-level information and regions
- **Bird Vehicles API** — Vehicle inventory and real-time availability

## Agentic access (1)

- **Bird Rides Agentic Access** — 10 operations

## Security (1)

- **Bird Rides Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Bird Rides Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Micromobility, Shared Mobility, Electric Scooters, E-Scooters, E-Bikes, Bike Share, Transportation, Urban Mobility, GBFS, General Bikeshare Feed Specification, Mobility Data Specification, MDS, Geofencing, Cities, Smart Cities, Fleet Management, Third Lane Mobility

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/bird-rides/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.