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At the suggestion of a couple of friends, I finally scraped together enough parts from the junk drawer to put together a BirdNET-PI<\/a> system. This is a Tensorflow-based machine learning system that listens to the audio stream from an outdoor microphone and can identify over 6000 species. A station can be set up inexpensively; all that is needed for a minimal system is a Raspberry Pi board and an outdoor microphone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new station’s results can be seen on Birdweather:
https:\/\/app.birdweather.com\/stations\/7366<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Example results<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The results are pretty impressive so far, although I’ve seen a few false detections- the local squirrels are being detected as Belted Kingfishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The system is configured to ignore detections of Northern Saw-whet Owl, Boreal Owl, and Western Screech-owl for now since the owl banding operation uses audio lures of those species- no need to pollute the BirdNET results with our lure playback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the suggestion of a couple of friends, I finally scraped together enough parts from the junk drawer to put together a BirdNET-PI system. This is a Tensorflow-based machine learning system that listens to the audio stream from an outdoor microphone and can identify over 6000 species. 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