BirdNET

BirdNET-Team

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

This is a really complicated app for me. I downloaded it a few days before I actually used it only to find out that it had been running the whole time. When I did use it to record I couldn't easily figure out how to seperate what sounds I wanted identified and couldn't find a way to clear everything to start from new.

More useful than Merlin in places where location info is spotty because "show wild guesses" often contains the correct species, which Merlin will not show. It is surprising and disappointing however that birdnet and merlin do not play nicely together. There seems to be no way to take a recording from merlin and analyze it in the birdnet app.

Great app for identifying birds, but there is one really annoying bug preventing it from being 5 stars. When selecting a range of the spectrum to play back or analyze, the audio doesn't line up, it's shifted a second or two after the selection and gets worse the further it is to the left. It usually takes multiple tries to get an accurate selection. This wasn't a problem a few years ago, though it could be because I had a different phone (Moto X4). Would also love the app to be open source.

What’s new

BirdNET: The easiest way to identify birds by sound.