# Verify by email, on a real email network.

Email verification sends a one-time code to an email address — no phone number required, and the channel reaches anyone with an inbox. Bird sends it on the same infrastructure that carries transactional email at scale, from a shared sender or your own verified domain, and checks it by recipient.

## The verification channel that needs no phone number.

Email is a first-class channel on the Bird Verify API: post a verification with an email address and we send the code from the shared Authifly sender, otp@verify.authifly.com, or your own verified domain. It's country-independent, so it works the same everywhere, and it rides the same network Bird runs for transactional email at scale.

## What you get on an email verification.

Built in, on every send.

## Send to an address, check by the same address.

An email verification is the same two calls as any other channel — only the recipient shape changes from a phone number to an email address.

## Your verification codes on the network that runs your email.

Email is one channel of Bird Verify: SMS and WhatsApp ship with it, and voice is rolling out — all on the same two endpoints.