BirdNET
4.4star
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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
4.4
12.4K reviews
Sarah Johnstone
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June 4, 2025
I love this app! Only ever knew 1 or 2 common birdsongs before; it seemed too hard to attempt to learn more (and frankly the image of 'twitchers' isn't the coolest..! I couldn't have been more wrong, I've been steadily adding common birds thanks to this app and now regularly recognise 15-20 species when out for walks, it couldn't be easier-just like learning new words in a language :) My one ask would be a way to retrieve previous observations on an old phone?
41 people found this review helpful
Mark Injerd
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July 24, 2024
Great app for identifying birds, but there is one really annoying bug preventing it from being 5 stars. When selecting a range of the spectrum to play back or analyze, the audio doesn't line up, it's shifted a second or two after the selection and gets worse the further it is to the left. It usually takes multiple tries to get an accurate selection. This wasn't a problem a few years ago, though it could be because I had a different phone (Moto X4). Would also love the app to be open source.
11 people found this review helpful
Mikki Jazeker
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July 23, 2024
It works great, as long as the sound is clear and there isn't too much background noise, which js fair enough. However, I have to manually give permission to use GPS and access microphone, every single time I open the app. This makes me lose precious seconds in which the bird sometimes stops calling, leaving it unidentified. I don't know how to get it to save my permission settings, it didn't use to give me this message.
12 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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