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I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

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Re: I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

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Post by dhosek »

dosman33 wrote: post #57
dhosek wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, no luck tracking down your ex-girlfriend, but we do have a line on an ivory-billed woodpecker.

Lol, nice. Does an audio recording of an ivory-billed exist?

Apparently, yes: https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/ivbwoo/cur/multimedi...

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Post by bluebarbet »

phainopepla2 wrote: post #40
comboy wrote: post #22

Btw, Merlin Bird ID app by Cornell University is so good that I got some people interested that weren't into that topic at all.

But a warning for novice birders: Merlin's sound ID feature produces a lot of false positives.

For info, there's a FOSS bird-call app, available on F-Droid, that's pretty decent: WhoBird

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Post by astura »

nbaugh1 wrote: post #44
drcongo wrote: post #39

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I call it Pokemon Go for grown ups. How many do you have in your life list? I finally managed to snag a Tawny Owl last week.

I've got 33. I don't know how that stacks up against other but a large percentage of them came just from my backyard. Just got added a Baltimore Oriole that showed up this week.

I've only been birdwatching since spring and I got 28 species already. Lots of seabirds because I spend a lot of the time at the beach.

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Post by wlonkly »

phainopepla2 wrote: post #40
comboy wrote: post #22

Btw, Merlin Bird ID app by Cornell University is so good that I got some people interested that weren't into that topic at all.

But a warning for novice birders: Merlin's sound ID feature produces a lot of false positives.

Occasionally I'll see a screenshot of Merlin with, I dunno, a dozen different birds, and in the middle of the list: a catbird. I never have the heart to tell people that they just heard one very creative bird.

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Post by brewtide »

maciejb wrote: post #97

I tried that with my Aqara camera. The mic there has no windshield, though; wind noise was terrible. Also I couldn’t get Aqara support to enable higher sampling rates in the firmware than 16kHz; BirdNET expects 48kHz audio samples. Ended up installing a better microphone attached to a RPi3A+ and using a RaspberyPi 4 which I already owned for hosting BirdNET-Go https://maciejb.me/posts/birdnet-go-setup/ Much better so…

I built an esp32 with 48khz mic soldered on, feeding rtsp stream to server in living room. Works amazing. Need to build more mics.

Re: I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

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Post by electroweak »

I don't know how this possibly worked for the northern mockingbird. One full moon I stood and listened to one call continuously for an hour and I couldn't remember hearing the same call twice. Every bird I'd ever heard in person and more mimicked...several car alarms..sirens... Do they even have their own distinctive call?
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