BirdNET

The easiest way to identify birds by sound.

BirdNET

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By: Stefan Kahl

Users: 4,900,054

6.35K

Rating: 4.09

(12,001)

3 new ratings

Version: 1.93 (Last updated: 2024-07-29)

Creation date: 2018-09-21

Email: ka*****@googlemail.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Permissions

Location: approximate location (network-based), precise location (GPS and network-based)

Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Microphone: record audio

Other: view network connections, full network access

Ranking

# 20,824 ▼ 8

Other rankings

#7 in merlin keyword 36 ▲ 1 #29 in identify keyword 59

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App summary

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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.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Accurate bird identification
Easy to use and intuitive interface
Automatically records and analyzes bird calls
Stores audio clips and location info
Great resource for bird enthusiasts

Cons

Problems with audio recording and playback timing
Issues with saving multiple recordings
Limited offline functionality
Difficulties in isolating specific sound segments
Occasional inaccuracies in species identification

Most mentioned

Identifying bird songs
Recording functionality
User interface issues
Need for improved offline access
Sensitivity to different bird calls

User reviews

I'd give a 6 but sometimes the phone's microphone, in tandem with the application, can't quite pick up the birds I'm inquiring about. Case in point, if there are several birds calling, it will latch on to birds I know about close by but not those slightly farther away which I could not remember what they are. I wonder if this app would work with microphone extensions or adding more sensitive and distinguishing audio equipment?

Adam K, 2024-09-21

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.

Mark Injerd, 2024-07-24

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.