No. Roost (in the stores as Roost Social) is the slow-messaging app where birds carry your messages across a live map. RoostWiki is a separate website about it: a reference to its stamps, birds and events, and a place to keep track of your own collection.

To send a bird you need the app itself, from the App Store or Google Play. There is more on the difference on the Roost app page.

No. It is made by a player of Roost, unpaid and in their spare time, and has no connection to the people who make the app. They have not reviewed or endorsed anything here.

Never. RoostWiki does not ask for, and cannot use, your Roost account. If any site other than Roost itself asks you for your Roost login, don't give it.

No, and it works the other way round too: nothing you collect in the app appears here by itself. What you mark on RoostWiki is your own record, kept by hand, and the app never hears about it.

No. Nothing on this site can send a bird, a message or a stamp. Flights is a notebook for the birds you have already sent in the app, so you remember where each one is going and when it lands.

From the people who make it: Roost's own FAQ covers safety, pen pals, birds and pricing, and says how to reach them. RoostWiki can't help with your Roost account, purchases or pen pals.

Not to look around: every stamp, bird, event, nest and guide is open to anybody. An account is only what remembers your collection, so it is there on your phone and your laptop and ready for a friend to compare against. Make one when you want that.

No, and there are no ads. If it saves you some time, you can buy it a coffee on Ko-fi.

In the app, a bird only turns up in your codex once it has delivered a message to you. The Rookery shows every one from the start, with its artwork, rarity and speed, so you can see what is out there before you have met it.

Add them on Friends and open their profile. It lays both collections side by side: the stamps you could help them find, and the ones they could help you find, with their birds too.

By default other collectors can find you by username, and by the country you live in, so somebody missing your country's stamp knows there's a bird worth sending your way. Make your account private in your profile and you won't come up in searches, and anyone opening your profile is told it is private instead.

This page answers short questions about the site and how it relates to the app. The Guides are longer how-tos written by other collectors: strategies for getting a hard stamp, finding pen pals, making the most of an event.

249, one for each country and territory a bird can land in. A bird earns one for your passport the first time it reaches a country new to it. The stamp list has all of them, and the map shows where each one is.

1007 at the last count, from common to celestial. Each flies at its own speed, so the same message takes longer with a slow bird than a fast one.

A group chat Roost pins to a place. Most are gathered to collect that place's stamp, since a bird sent to a nest collects the stamp where it is set; some are for talking about one thing. A nest holds twenty people, and getting in means being friends with somebody already inside. Nests lists the ones collectors have shared.

Every so often Roost sets an event at a place, and a bird that lands there before it ends earns something extra, such as a rare bird, a stamp or a sticker pack. Events shows the one on now and every one before it.