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KaiserPro 44 seconds ago [-]
I have this too, I was looking to get more automated call recognition after we spotted a pheasant in my (suburban) back garden. I was going to buy a dedicated mike, but then realised that birdnet go works with any rtsp audio stream.
I do need to tune the false positives though.
inventor7777 2 minutes ago [-]
I run BirdNET-Go as an app on my Home Assistant i7 M710q. I use the GPU-enabled BirdNET model and Perch V2, and it works swimmingly.
Input is three RTSP streams from various Reolink PoE cameras around our house, and it is pretty cool to be able to find and listen to the birds/frogs that come.
ben1040 1 hours ago [-]
I did exactly this with BirdNet-Go and my Unifi doorbell cam. Unifi exposes an RTSP feed for each camera so it was easy for the tool to just "listen" to the doorbell and start classifying.
I have a spare e-ink display and my next weekend project to follow onto this is to wire it up so it shows some faux "woodcut" images of birds detected, or something like that.
sciencesama 51 minutes ago [-]
just use trmnl it will make it super easy
tacodestroyer 14 minutes ago [-]
Nice! I never thought about using my security cameras but ended up building a regular Birdnet-Pi with a microphone. I took it one step further to make it portable so that I can use it when we hike or travel to new places. Added a little e-ink display to the front and it allows me to see Top 3 for the day, last detected, and total number for the day.
Been working on a similar project for doing animal behavioral analysis on cameras setup in a barn. I got YOLO running in real-time on several streams on a RTX4070. Managing the training data and doing DINO->YOLO distillation has me writing my own data management suite that I plan on OSing soon.
comboy 1 hours ago [-]
Btw, Merlin Bird ID app by Cornell University is so good that I got some people interested that weren't into that topic at all.
phainopepla2 17 minutes ago [-]
But a warning for novice birders: Merlin's sound ID feature produces a lot of false positives.
bakibab 37 minutes ago [-]
Indeed. I use Merlin Bird ID all the time. I found it good across many countries.
drcongo 18 minutes ago [-]
I call it Pokemon Go for grown ups. How many do you have in your life list? I finally managed to snag a Tawny Owl last week.
nbaugh1 8 minutes ago [-]
I've got 33. I don't know how that stacks up against other but a large percentage of them came just from my backyard. Just got added a Baltimore Oriole that showed up this week.
KyleWasTaken 1 hours ago [-]
Heads up. I noticed the screenshot of your markdown card has an ASCII block that goes below the baseline. `U+2588` (Full block) tends to do that depending on a lot of things.
I made a change to the markdown card sometime ago that uses only `U+2581` through `U+ 2587` instead to avoid that issue.
Nice! I've tried to build something similar with Unifi cameras (https://github.com/dewey/birdhomie) and it worked pretty well, the species detection wasn't that accurate but I'll continue on that project in the winter.
order-matters 22 minutes ago [-]
how confident is it in the identification? i imagine sometimes the angle is or resolution is bad and it may detect a bird but not have a lot to go off of to say what kind. does it narrow the list down or just make a guess?
tdb7893 15 minutes ago [-]
It looks like they are using audio. Even with poor audio on my phone I find that it works very well. Once in a blue moon I'll get an ID I am doubtful of from BirdNet but it's rare in my experience.
tolerance 1 hours ago [-]
I am imagining a Gary Larson strip about a flock of birds who are so not fond of this.
jamesforestwest 28 minutes ago [-]
What an interesting and fun project. Now I want something similar too.
I'm also working on a little project that is a walnut frame with a waveshare eink display and esp32 that polls for latest detection and display the picture.
bix6 45 minutes ago [-]
Wow kingfisher, lucky!
xattt 1 hours ago [-]
Has your observation record reached a steady state, or are you regularly seeing unusual species?
arm32 1 hours ago [-]
I’m at a very steady state now years into running a BirdNET-GO instance. Disclaimer: I’m a contributor to the project.
I’m a pretty unhinged sorta engineer, so I actually recently created a 24/7 weather TV channel that combines real-time bird alerts, weather radar, timelapses and a sky cam feed (just a UniFi camera mounted on my home’s roof PV).
(i have a few https://www.birdweather.com/ devices strewn across North America and Europe because I am time poor and preferred a turnkey solution for those gifted to, but love the DIY efforts! no affiliation!)
Aboutplants 1 hours ago [-]
How do you like the bird weather device? I’m interested in a more turnkey solution as well
toomuchtodo 45 minutes ago [-]
I'm fairly satisfied with it and would recommend it to others who aren't interested in building their own solution. I like supporting the folks who are building it, although I'm unsure what the future looks like for the product. Could enshittify, could turn into Home Assistant Foundation [1] (which I also financially support). Time will tell. That's why I think its important to have open alternatives, similar to how one of the https://www.adsbexchange.com/ operators went rouge [2], sold to private equity, and others have filled the gap with new ADS-B network solutions.
110 detections over 7 days? Here in Sydney I would expect >110 detections per day!
zucked 24 minutes ago [-]
I've done essentially the same thing before (using my existing Go2RTC and Frigate setup) but the challenge I ran into is that the microphones on my cameras just aren't very good.
deepvibrations 28 minutes ago [-]
You can adjust which detections are accepted based on confidence level, so it might be that the settings are very strict.
LIMEVINCE 1 hours ago [-]
In the non-fucked up timeline where Hilary won in 2016, Flock cameras is a nationwide network of automatic bird identification cameras to track bird population and migration.
CamperBob2 59 minutes ago [-]
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LIMEVINCE 27 minutes ago [-]
I don't love it either, but it's better than the alternative of Peace President(tm) -- famous for strokes of genius such as "can't we just shoot [the protestors] in the legs"; asking the military to "shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs; and the masterful decision to deny Iran nuclear weapons by withdrawing from the JCPOA and joining Israel in waging an illegitimate war.
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dhosek 50 minutes ago [-]
Come on man, let us have a nice little alternate universe without peeing in our Cheerios.
nautilus12 1 hours ago [-]
I get jealous of people that have the luxury of time to do things like this
IncreasePosts 1 hours ago [-]
I just used AI(antigravity with gemini 3.6 flash, but i'm sure many others would work) to implement this and integrate it with my security cameras after reading the blog post 26 minutes ago. I suspect the author did the same thing. I also had it steal the idea from the AvianVisitors link in this thread and it displays a generated collage of the recently detected birds.
ck2 1 hours ago [-]
ha, now imagine some hacker changing all the Flock firmware nationwide to do bird identification too
would have been a great Mr. Robot episode
dhosek 49 minutes ago [-]
Sorry, no luck tracking down your ex-girlfriend, but we do have a line on an ivory-billed woodpecker.
dylan604 1 hours ago [-]
My cat wants to know who/where does one ask to request to have a specific bird located?
I do need to tune the false positives though.
Input is three RTSP streams from various Reolink PoE cameras around our house, and it is pretty cool to be able to find and listen to the birds/frogs that come.
I have a spare e-ink display and my next weekend project to follow onto this is to wire it up so it shows some faux "woodcut" images of birds detected, or something like that.
Case I used to make it portable and fit the display https://makerworld.com/en/models/1336154-portable-pi-sdr-cas...
I really gotta set mine up!
I made a change to the markdown card sometime ago that uses only `U+2581` through `U+ 2587` instead to avoid that issue.
It's under a collapsed block here:
https://www.kyleniewiada.org/blog/2025/05/backyard-bird-trac...
I like the idea of doing something with the timestamp of the recording, or highlighting new (or recently unheard) visitors.
https://alec.is/posts/building-a-solar-powered-bird-station/
I'm also working on a little project that is a walnut frame with a waveshare eink display and esp32 that polls for latest detection and display the picture.
I’m a pretty unhinged sorta engineer, so I actually recently created a 24/7 weather TV channel that combines real-time bird alerts, weather radar, timelapses and a sky cam feed (just a UniFi camera mounted on my home’s roof PV).
https://www.youtube.com/live/sAC3o6KW2N0
Watchable from every TV in the house and shows the birds photo and name when it hears one. Whole thing is a single cursed FFMPEG command.
> No cloud services. No API calls.
> No subscription fees. No terms of service changes. No company shutting down the service in two years.
(i have a few https://www.birdweather.com/ devices strewn across North America and Europe because I am time poor and preferred a turnkey solution for those gifted to, but love the DIY efforts! no affiliation!)
[1] https://www.openhomefoundation.org/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582907 (citations)
(you either go the path of a burner or a birdie, I don't make the rules)
would have been a great Mr. Robot episode