Birdnet-go is a real-time sound analyzer that detects bird species. It can take in audio from microphones. I set mine up to stream audio from my security cameras that I already had installed. There’s even a Home Assistant App, if you’re using it.
I live in a more suburban/semi-urban environment, but was really surprised to so many different bird species.
There is also this similar software, which is a little clunky but not slop https://github.com/Nachtzuster/BirdNET-Pi
Let this post be the one to ask a question that’s been bothering me (not a coder):
Multi-model local AI inference, runs 24/7 on a Raspberry Pi.
This and similar claims in other software suggest - to me - that the AI is running locally on the raspi, no need to exchange data with sites providing AI APIs or whatever.
I struggle to believe that this is possible, let alone on a raspi.
So, how “local” ar the AIs that help more and more software with various tasks?
Is “local AI” some sort of selling point that is often false or deliberately misleading? “Localwashing”?
It can run on device on your phone https://birdnet.cornell.edu/
I haven’t verified it, but it local ML models on audio is pretty efficient and should run fine on a raspberry pi.
Ditch the AI slop logo, please.
It’s an AI program specifically to use AI models to recognise birds. If you’re against AI you should probably learn to recognise them manually.
“AI” is a pretty bad blanket term. BirdNet / Merlin is a model trained specifically on bird calls (and some noises) built to recognize bird calls. App and logo use huge general-purpose models to create content of questionable quality.
And yes, a decent birder should never trust just Merlin ID.
🔗 AI Logo
🔗 and probably everything else too
🔗 Including the readme
and probably everything else too
*Takes a look at the top three folders*
.agents/skills.claude/skills.cursor/rules
Yep…
The maintainer of the project probably won’t see it here, but that repo does appear to be fairly active, they’ve got thousands of merged PRs. If you contribute a better logo they might replace the AI one.
Xale, the logo is pretty, on topic and quite cute. Is it made with AI? No idea. Does it really matter?
Give open source projects a break will you?
If you don’t like the logo just say so.
If you don’t like the logo just say so.
That’s literally what I did.
I guess if you spend enough time chatting with sparkling autocomplete you forget how real conversations work.
They did express their displeasure. Even said please
That’s true…
It is AI. 2min doodle would be better than this
I still like it and i have seen projects with much uglier logos made by humans. Nothing against humans or AI either.
An ugly logo made by a human wasn’t made by stealing from artists and contributing to a climate crisis.
and contributing to a climate crisis.
Unless you want to argue that simply being alive is contributing to the climate crisis, I sure hope you don’t eat meat.
Or drive a car
How does this compare to merlin? I dont currently have any reason to distrust the cornell university department of ornithology… but if they ever turn evil its good to know there’s a backup
It is the same back end, but this one runs continuously on a server instwad of on your phone.
Yeah, Merlin has been my go-to forever.
Rule 7+8
OMG, birdnet-go is amazing. I had setup birdnet-pi, till an update to either docker or birdnet-pi broke it.
Now using birdnet-go and the stats are insane, this is just the last week
Nice. What kind of microphone setup do you have? I’m just starting with security cameras because I have those, but the audio quality is ehh.
Like you, using my security cameras. Riolink seems to have the loudest audio of the 2 I use. The other is a Unifi UVC G3 I had from work
My mom loves this so I build some additional microphones using https://github.com/Sukecz/ESP32-birdnet-mic and by 3d printing some casing for it to keep bugs out.
Someone share this with the bird voyeurs.
