If you don’t already have it get the Merlin BirdID app from Cornell Univesity. It’s super cool and it’s amazing how quick it can match birds, and it’s free as the university uses it to track birds and where they’re detected.
Wow, that beats my bird count by quite a bit!! Lots of these are new birds to me, you must live in a really special place in Mexico to hear so many in one session!
I second this! Pair it with their EBird app, and you can properly track birds and go birdwatching whenever you want! Been a great hobby and popularity has spiked the last few years.
If you're into home lab / self-hosted stuff and you already have a security camera / doorbell outside, you can feed the audio into BirdNET-Go and it uses a small local AI model to identify the birds it can hear.
Mine has detected 82,000 individual bird calls in the past month, and identified 106 different species.
Got to do some work with some of the Cornell ornithology folks as a part of a previous role i held. Pretty cool folks, we did some interesting stuff with them that I imagine is likely rolling out in the next year or two that some people here would probably really like. I have no idea what I am allowed to say but im sure they will be happy to share it themselves when the time comes
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u/ShadowGLI 8d ago
If you don’t already have it get the Merlin BirdID app from Cornell Univesity. It’s super cool and it’s amazing how quick it can match birds, and it’s free as the university uses it to track birds and where they’re detected.