Re: [cobirds] BirdWeather

It looks like the stations are available to purchase for about $250.  Pretty cool!

Diana Beatty

El Paso County

On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 8:38 PM Jeff Percell <jeff.percell@gmail.com> wrote:

So this is pretty cool... 

Have you ever wondered what all birds would be observed if you left something like Merlin running on your phone outside your house all day? 

A neighbor sent me this link where he set up his weather station to run BirdNET-Pi, so now it is continually streaming audio to BirdNET for identification, through a platform called BirdWeather. (BirdNET is a similar project to Merlin). I think my neighbor has an admin interface where he gets more interesting data, perhaps, but just from the public map interface (link below), you can explore what birds have been identified over the recent various time periods from 24 hours to a month. If you watch the map it will also stream as birds are identified. Additionally you can click in to listen to the audio clips from said observations. 

There are about 20 stations across Colorado, in addition to my neighbor's in Erie, and more than 200 across the world. It looks like Bird Weather has several different station types, from one's like my neighbor's to live audio & video streams, as well as other devices BirdWeather now sells.  

I have a pretty healthy neighborhood patch list & barcharts in eBird (10-30 checklists/week of the year over the last 4 years). The only bird that my neighbor's station has picked up that wasn't on my patch list is a Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay from the afternoon of January 1. A very good bird for Southwest Weld County (a stone's throw from Eastern Boulder County). Now I just need to get out and scour the neighborhood to see if that Jay stuck around.

My neighbor's station:

https://app.birdweather.com/stations/2300

More on Bird Weather & BirdNet:

https://www.birdweather.com/about

https://www.birdweather.com/about/stations

https://birdnet.cornell.edu/

***Caution: As with using the Merlin app, I assume this is perfectly capable of incorrect identifications. Also you shouldn't use something like a BirdWeather station to submit eBird lists, eBird rules explicitly states to not report birds that are Remotely sensed images or video (assume same goes for audio) ***

Happy New Year & Good Birding,
Jeff Percell

Erie, CO

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