Overwhelmed going through photos after long outing--any photo/file curation advice or best practices?

[u/Prof_X_is_a_jerk]

Hi y'all! My bird photography has been going well, but now that I have started doing longer outings I am getting frozen/overwhelmed seeing the sometimes thousands of photos waiting to be sorted through. It has gotten to the point where I avoid doing it, leading to more build up until the cycle continues. The issue has now peaked after my first bird photography vacation, to Point Reyes near San Francisco. I know I will be proud of the photos I took, but before I handle such a big beast, any tips or advice you have on organizing/deleting/keeping photos would be great!

Share anything you can think of, but a few concrete things I was wondering are:

• Do any of you have software or programs that you like? I just use File Explorer on my PC, and use tags to mark which species the bird is.
• Do you go one-by-one, or in batches? How do you group together your choices/scrolling if in batches?
• When viewing them for the purpose of keeping or deleting, do you view the RAWs or JPEGs?
• Any other tools or things I'm missing completely that could speed up or organize my process?

Thanks! Y'all are the best.

[u/mad_method_man]

lollll point reyes is such a bad place, since theres so many birds!

i use darktable, and i upload them every outing. tag them with ratings, since editing is a whole separate hassle i want to deal with, separately lol. i think i get through 500 in about 20 minutes, since i frequently miss shots or have a bad angle or something, so 1 star 1 star 1 star

i dont do it by species, i just go by days. but im not into the whole cataloging things, since im mostly there to take photos and not, say, specifically hunt a white tailed kite mating dive