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Have You Ever Wanted to Know What Kind of Bird is Singing that Song?
Let The Cornell Lab of Ornithology tell you with their handy App.
Have you ever heard a bird singing and wondered what it was?
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Chemnitz University of Technology have teamed up and created an App to help you identify it!
The app is called BirdNET Bird Sound Identification.
When you open the App, it opens with the above screen for a few seconds, then switches to the recording screen below.
When the recording screen comes up, you’ll see audio waves moving across the screen like this:
The App will automatically start recording any sounds it hears, but hones in specifically on bird song.
In this instance, when the bird started singing, the yellow in the wavelengths become more pronounced. The yellow line below was where this bird was singing its head off.
Once you have a good recording, you place your finger at the beginning of the song sequence and drag it across the screen to the end of the song sequence, specifically where the bird was singing longest and loudest.
Once you’ve blocked in the song sequence, you hit “Analyze” and the software will review its catalog of audio clips. It currently has a catalog of 984 species.
Once you analyze, it will bring up the most likely identity of your songbird, like this:
This recording I took identified the correct bird, the American Robin.
Hit submit, so Cornell gets the info, and there you have it!
This is a really fun activity to do with kids. They love it and they get to know birds by sight and sound.
Want to hear the song of specific birds? Check out the article below and listen.
Krista Bennett, writer, photographer, Proprietor of Evergreen Creek Vintage & Gifts, homesteader, boy-mom-coffeeholic with an acute affection for cats.
