BirdNET

Stefan Kahl

About this app

How can computers learn to recognize birds from sounds? The BirdNET research project uses artificial intelligence and neural networks to train computers to identify more than 3,000 of the most common species worldwide. You can record a file using the microphone of your Android 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.

Ratings and reviews

Guys ❤️ this is an amazing app. Easy to record audio, easy to select audio chunk that contains bird sound. The app find the correct bird namse in seconds and shows wiki page for it. It is perfect for Germany, I haven't tried it out Germany. I'm a pudding Ai developer and know how much effort was done here to get the data , analysis it, and train a neural network to such accurate results. I appreciate your efforts.

There are outstanding issues that makes using the app harder. The location of an observation is not displayed in a good way, the map is often feature-less and coordinates are hidden. Also, when analysis was tried without good connection, it will adter some time stop the recording just to show a notification that the analysis was not succesful. To get to the recording, you have to export all the recording. You cannot save one. You can share it, but the options are limited.

User Interface and app behavior is bad is for recording multiple segments. I have lost many recording samples because of it. I want to create and manage multiple recordings, but instead new recordings replace the previous track. You'll learn after many failures that you have to manually choose a segment, then save it for later. Otherwise it only saves tracks I have submitted for analysis, which costs mobile data and I want to avoid using it up in the forest.

What's new

BirdNET: The easiest way to identify birds by sound.