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BirdNET 4+
Bird sound identification
Stefan Kahl
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- Free
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Description
How can computers learn to recognize birds from sounds? The BirdNET research project uses artificial intelligence and neural networks to train computers to identify nearly 3,000 of the most common species of North America and Europe. You can record a file using the internal microphone of your iOS device and see if BirdNET correctly identifies the probable bird species present in your recording. Get to know the birds around you and help us to collect observations by submitting your recordings.
BirdNET is a joint project of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Chemnitz University of Technology.
What’s New
Version 1.0.9
Minor feature improvement
Ratings and Reviews
Good but…
Simple to use, and I’ve found it to be the most reliable. However, it feels like a bit of a 1 way research street. It would be great if the “explore your area” / Select a bird actually allowed you to play back a selection of the audio recordings rather than just take you to Wikipedia. That would help me learn as well as you train your model.
Not perfect but …
I like this app very much. It may not be perfect but I have used it across Europe and in Australia and it has helped me identify a wide range of birds. For me as a non-expert this is very handy. I accept that it doesn’t get everything right and it will not highlight the bird I want to know about amongst a cacophony. But it can’t read my mind and I think it registers things I’m not focusing on. So you have to wait until you get an isolated call before it will give you the chance to submit feedback. I also like the way it retains the recordings I analyse, so I can go back and remind myself what I’ve heard.
It’s a nice idea but needs further development
Sometimes you record a bird call and it’s correctly identified, other times not. The birds of your area is also not complete and for both these inaccuracies, there is no possibility to provide further details.
For instance, I am very lucky to live in an area known for it’s summer migration of Nightjars, in the late evening they sound a little like toads. The app has no suggestion and at this point there is no way to report the fact that the birds exist in the area, or in the case of a wild guess, that it is actually a Nightjar.
I think there should be some place for human intervention so that people can identify or confirm bird calls from the locale.
App Privacy
The developer, Stefan Kahl, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- User Content
- Identifiers
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Stefan Kahl
- Size
- 72.3 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Cornell University, Chemnitz University of Technology
- Price
- Free