BirdNET
3.8star
12.3K reviews
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About this app
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.
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.
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Ratings and reviews
3.8
12K reviews
Adam Dawood
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March 15, 2025
It's a great app, but it lacks backup functionality, either locally or via the cloud, leaving recordings vulnerable to data loss. Scrolling through recordings beyond 30 seconds is impossible, making it frustrating to analyze data outside that timeframe despite the option to record longer. Selecting the entire 30-second spectrogram is also difficult on modern phones, as touching the far left or right edges triggers Android’s navigation gestures, making precise selection impossible.
6 people found this review helpful
Christopher Robin
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March 15, 2025
I have reinstalled this app to try again, having given up on it last year. It was always failing with "could not connect to server" or "we are experiencing technical difficulties". Since reinstalling have had a couple of successful identifications, so I'm hopeful that it has improved. It is a superb app when it works.
17 people found this review helpful
Liam Goddard
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August 31, 2023
Good app - really easy to see what birds are around. If the recording is clear and it gives a "Highly likely"/"Almost certain" result, it is almost always right. However, it fails on some common birds you'd expect it to manage: it was unable to identify a very clear recording of a female tawny owl's distinctive 'ke-wick' call.
22 people found this review helpful
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BirdNET: The easiest way to identify birds by sound.
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About the developer
Stefan Kahl
kahl.stefan@googlemail.com
Germany
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