diff --git a/srcpkgs/bird_exporter/files/bird_exporter/run b/srcpkgs/bird_exporter/files/bird_exporter/run
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..d92d8190940
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/bird_exporter/files/bird_exporter/run
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+[ -r conf ] && . ./conf
+exec bird_exporter ${OPTS:=-bird.v2 -format.new}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/bird_exporter/template b/srcpkgs/bird_exporter/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6374b7f5d58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/bird_exporter/template
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Template file for 'bird_exporter'
+pkgname=bird_exporter
+version=1.2.4
+revision=1
+build_style=go
+go_import_path="github.com/czerwonk/bird_exporter"
+hostmakedepends="pandoc"
+depends="bird"
+short_desc="Metric exporter for BIRD routing daemon to use with Prometheus"
+maintainer="Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="https://github.com/czerwonk/bird_exporter"
+distfiles="https://github.com/czerwonk/bird_exporter/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=99498bb8a47e2dbb496830099a550df0bf0d4b53f3e7ccd309689c54f5ffae72
+
+post_build() {
+	pandoc -s -t man bird_exporter.1.md -o bird_exporter.1
+}
+post_install() {
+	vman bird_exporter.1
+	vsv bird_exporter
+	vlicense LICENSE
+}