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Overview

Birds in the Northern Territory can be counted by listening. This site finds which birds are in recordings from the bush, shows where and when they were heard, and is open about how often it gets them right.

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Where things stand

Species with example recordings

Example recordings

Bird species our model knows

Northern Territory birds

Clips labelled by people

The honest summary

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It works on clean recordings

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We don’t yet know how it does in the field

Every accuracy figure comes from clean recordings of one calling bird. On real bush audio, two models that agreed on almost every clean recording agreed on just 3 of 21 field segments. Settling it needs people to listen and label. Help by listening
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Some questions can’t be answered yet