Northern Territory · Australia

Which bird is calling?

Recorders left in the bush capture months of sound. Avian Observatory works out which birds are in it, and tells you how often it gets the answer right.

Explore the Observatory How accurate is it?

The fairest test so far

Live model

Bird species our model knows
Example recordings to listen to
Bird species with example recordings

Listen

Play real recordings and see which birds each model heard, second by second.

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Meet the birds

The species the AI recognises, with the recordings it learned them from.

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What's next

What works today, and what is still being built.

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Check the accuracy

Our models against BirdNET and Google’s Perch, on the same recordings.

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What we don’t know yet

Every accuracy figure here comes from clean recordings of one calling bird. How well the system does on months of noisy bush audio needs experts to listen and label, and that work is under way. See how it works

Harsh Rastogi · Charles Darwin University · PRT840 IT Thesis. Recordings belong to their recordists and are used under Creative Commons licences.