Hearbird: Bird Sound ID

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About this app

Which bird is singing there? Tap Start and Hearbird tells you, right away, on your phone.

Hearbird listens with the microphone and recognises 800 species of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East by their song and calls. Recognition runs entirely on your phone: no account, no internet needed, no subscription, no in-app purchases. The app is free and shows a few ads, never while you are listening.

LISTEN
• One button. Tap Start and the birds appear as cards with a photo, as soon as they sing.
• Keeps listening with the screen off and the phone in your pocket.
• For every bird: how common or rare it is where you are, and whether it is unusual for the time of year.

YOUR DIARY
• Every session is saved: where you were, how long you listened, which birds you heard.
• Places you return to are grouped: "Garden: 31 species ever, 9 this week, new this month: nuthatch".
• Listen back to the best clips of every bird you heard.
• Add a bird you saw but did not hear, or your own photo of it.

LEARN
• A page for every species: description, family, size, conservation status, when it is around in your area, and a link to Wikipedia.
• Share a session or a single bird as a ready-made image.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
The sound, your locations and your diary stay on your phone. There is no account and no server of ours.

Hearbird runs the open Perch 2.0 model by Google Research (Apache 2.0) on your phone. Occurrence data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, via GBIF.org (CC BY 4.0). Species texts: Wikidata (CC0). Photos: Wikimedia Commons, credited in the app under About.

Questions or ideas: [e-mail]

What’s new

First release of Hearbird: tap Start and see which birds are singing around you. 800 European species, recognised on your phone, with a diary of every walk.