About BirdNET: Bird sound identification
How can computers learn to recognize birds from sounds? The BirdNET research project uses artificial intelligence and neural networks to train computers to identify nearly 1,000 of the most common species of North America and Europe. Help us test this prototype app by recording a file using the internal microphone of your Android device and seeing if BirdNET correctly identifies the probable bird species present in your recording.
Please note: Response time is affected by the need to transfer the audio recordings to our servers in order to process the files. Recording quality may affect results, and will vary depending on your device. External microphones will probably increase the recording quality.
BirdNET is a joint project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Chemnitz University of Technology.
BirdNET: Bird sound identification details
BirdNET: Bird sound identification is a free Education app for Android with 1,000,000+ installs on Google Play and a 4.5/5 average rating from 3,686 ratings. It was released on September 21, 2018 and last updated on May 27, 2020. It's developed by Stefan Kahl. It requires Android 5.0 or later.
- Category
- Education
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (3,686 ratings)
- Installs
- 1,000,000+
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- No
- Ads
- No ads
- Current version
- 1.73
- Size
- 17M
- Requires Android
- 5.0 and up
- Content rating
- Everyone
- Released
- September 21, 2018
- Last updated
- May 27, 2020
- Developer
- Stefan Kahl
What’s new in BirdNET: Bird sound identification
BirdNET: The easiest way to identify birds by sound.
Version 1.73 · Updated May 27, 2020
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
How does BirdNET recognize birds from sounds?
What does BirdNET identify?
