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Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends
- jna_sh 1y agoThis post references Logan Williams’ BirdNET experiments, he did a really fantastic talk on that project at WHY2025 (the Dutch hacker camp) recently: https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-240-is-ai-for-the-birds-the-beauty-of-backyard-birdsong-data https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-240-is-ai-for-the-birds-the-b...
- 3abiton 1y agoThanks for sharing, thoroughly enjoyed it!
- shellfishgene 1y agoVery nice, I wonder how this was made, couldn't find anything on his github.
- jna_sh 1y agoWhich part of it? I assume you mean the visualisation as that’s (if I recall correctly) the only part he doesn’t break down technically in the talk. I asked him after the talk and he said he uses Vue
- shellfishgene 1y agoThanks, I had hoped there was a tool I could just feed my csv data into...
- hypercube33 1y agoI was mild hoping there was a birdnet pi image with all of the magic mostly done for something like this. like the author I'd love to set this up for my mom and mother in law as they have the phone app but it's not as exciting unless you're sitting outside.
- jna_sh 1y agoI recently completed a MSc with a focus on bird bioacoustics, and this problem goes for the whole ecosystem/pipeline: there are very few (non-proprietary) off-the-shelf, ready to go products. Even the most popular methods that are extolled in lots of papers and by NGOs all practically need a dev/data scientist for basic implementation
- shellfishgene 1y agoBoth BirdNET-Pi and BirdNET-Go provide statistics pages with similar plots where you can choose birds and date ranges, but they are not as polished.
- ben1040 1y agoI have a UniFi doorbell that I chose because it's self hosted and the video stays in my home. It also easily lets you get an RTSP stream of the camera feed. Earlier this spring we put a bird feeder outside the front door and it dawned on me I could be piping the doorbell cam into BirdNET to classify the bird calls. With an RTSP stream there's no need to mount a microphone anywhere, that comes for free from the doorbell. My wife is the bird person in the house more so than I am, but it was still really fun to set up and watch the identifications come across.
- tetris11 1y agoRTSP listening instructions for anyone curious: https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi/wiki/Using-an-internet-stream-as-input-(RTSP-and-HTTP) https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi/wiki/Using-an-inte... I need to try this with my Reolink
- hentrep 1y agoLong time BirdNET fan, but I used the Merlin app for the first time yesterday and found it much more useful [0] It’ll display multiple bird species at the same time, and highlight which song belongs to which species in real-time. Recommend giving it a shot if you haven’t! [0] https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/ https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
- Lorean1 1y agoJust to clarify - the article describes BirdNET-Pi, not the mobile app Birdnet. In the mobile app we have to record and manually select a fragment to analyze, here it's a continuous monitoring where detections are visible in real time and can be replayed.
- gerdesj 1y agoOP explains all that admirably in the section entitled: "Terminology: BirdNET vs BirdNET-Pi" I use both. I have a BNPi at home in our summerhouse with a mic on the outside. We live next to a park and the bird song can be deafening in summer! I have the Birdnet app on my mobile and its ideal when out walking to do a quick survey or identify a song I don't recognise. Whilst I'm commenting here, I'll drop a shout out for the "Flora Incognita" app for plant identification.
- joks 1y agoBirdNET has some advantages -- it lets you select a segment of audio and it'll give suggestions, even if it's not extremely confident in those suggestions, meaning it can sometimes do better in noisy environments. Merlin is generally more useful, but the BirdNET app has its place for sure
- bix6 1y agoThat bird viz is awesome
- paffdragon 1y agoThis is so cool. I'm using BirdNET on Android for a long time and that is awesome, but running continuous monitoring on a Pi is really interesting. I saw there was also a Home Assistant integration for it.
- WaitWaitWha 1y agoyes! Home Assistant integration with BirdNET will take the audio streams from your cameras; no immediate need for the BirdNET-Pi. Since cameras are often outside, there is better chance to capture some interesting bird audio.
- mdswanson 1y agoAnother BirdNET option if you don't want to build your own: https://www.birdweather.com/ https://www.birdweather.com/
- hypercube33 1y agoInteresting. Are you an owner of this product and if so do you have any feedback on it?
- wewewedxfgdf 1y agoI wonder if I could use on old phone for this. This might work well for frogs too.
- heidarb 1y agoThere’s also BirdNET-Go https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go It’s under active development and uses the same data models.
- bradly 1y agoI make realtime algo generated ambient music based on my Birdnet-Pi server in my backyard. Give a listen at https://birdymusic.com https://birdymusic.com or search birdymusic.com in your music app for some cut tracks. I recently added an in URL meter after getting inspired by the URL based snake game on HN last week.
- adaptbrian 1y agoThis is awesome.
- bradly 1y agoThank you!
- driverdan 1y agoThis is cool. FYI the URL meter makes copying and pasting the URL impossible while the music is playing. Not the best idea if you want people to share it.
- DrSiemer 1y agoOne of my future hobby projects is developing a low-cost device that can detect pigeon calls and will automatically respond with random audio of whatever local predator they fear the most. I can't stand their monotone calls in the morning.
- shellfishgene 1y agoGoogle research also recently released their Perch v2 model, which identfies 10k birds and 5k other species' sounds (and human noises). https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/how-ai-is-helping-advance-the-science-of-bioacoustics-to-save-endangered-species/ https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/how-ai-is-helping-adva...
- voidUpdate 1y agoJust checked the dataset, it only uses the top 1000 most common north american and european birds, so if you don't live in those regions, you may not find it particularly useful