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I've been using birdnet, but it seems to want an internet connection to do the identification and sometimes that is dicey when there is a bird that I want to id
by dunham 6mo ago
I've been using birdnet, but it seems to want an internet connection to do the identification and sometimes that is dicey when there is a bird that I want to identify. (Also birds seem to shut up around the time you get the app open.)
I'm going to give Merlin a try - the app has UI to download the network for offline use.
- rurp 6mo agoRequiring an internet connection for a nature app is absurd. As annoying as it is I get why a big tech company like Google fails at this sort of thing, many of their employees probably never leave a city and so the products always work well for them. But a nature app has no excuse, normal usage will get blocked by that all the time.
- meta-meta 6mo agoThat's what Merlin is for but it's a ~450mb install. BirdNet is only a ~30MB install and birds are everywhere, so what's wrong with having an online option for most people who spend most of their time within range of a cel tower?
- tejtm 6mo agobirdnet pi or go run the model locally with an option to push observations back to Cornell https://www.birdweather.com/birdnetpi https://www.birdweather.com/birdnetpi https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go
- shellfishgene 6mo agoTphakala recently also published a cli tool to process recordings, it can also use other models such as Google perch. https://github.com/tphakala/birda https://github.com/tphakala/birda