[tambeb]

Haven't played with this one yet, but I have messed around with the BirdNET app from Cornell. It's very accurate as long as the neighbors don't have their landscapers mowing the lawn and using leaf blowers right next door.

https://birdnet.cornell.edu/

[luma]

I just stood up a BirdNet-Pi[1] instance underneath my deck[2] and it's a super fun project. I designed a 3d printable enclosure[3] to mount an rpi in a bird-hut looking thing to try and keep the water off the device. I'm currently using a 4-mic array on a Seeed Respeaker hat which is notionally designed for far-field 360 pickup to be used on voice response devices (alexa et al). It works but it's not great, so next stunt is to try and build some more suitable microphone solutions[4].

It really is an interesting use of TensorFlow at the edge and the somewhat accidental side effect is that I'm learning the birdsongs of all the neighborhood birds which is an extra delight when I'm out and hearing their calls in the broader world.

[1] https://birdnetpi.com/ [2] https://i.imgur.com/xxugaVN.jpg [3] https://i.imgur.com/ycLVD6u.png [4] https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi/discussions/39

[wil421]

Nice setup and thanks for the info. I’ve been looking at doing a similar setup myself. I have an outdoor network switch in the same place under my deck. I bet I could stick a Pi close by and power it with PoE.

[kooshball]

it's very similar. they built this directly into the Merlin app. other diff is birdnet coudlnt detect birds in realtime where as Merlin can.