The BirdWeather Ecosystem

Global analysis of more than 60 million acoustic detections representing 583 diurnal bird species; examines how artificial light changes vocal activity timing. Paper and analysis code are one project.

Evidence & status Published paper, Science, 2025

Combines BirdWeather and Eclipse Soundscapes observations for 181 species at 873 locations to study responses to the 2023 annular and 2024 total eclipses.

Evidence & status Published paper, Ecology and Evolution, 2026

Methods demonstration fitting hierarchical models to Wood Thrush vocalization timing, using BirdWeather detections and light-at-night covariates. A research highlight with a worked example, not a separate large ecological survey.

Evidence & status Published Research Highlight, Journal of Animal Ecology, 2025

Torres and colleagues investigate the interaction of cloud cover, artificial light and vocal behavior. The lab lists the manuscript under review; the repository has placeholder publication DOI fields.

Evidence & status Manuscript listed as in review; public analysis code

Huynh and colleagues combine over 579,000 detections with EPA particulate-pollution data to study June 2023 Canadian wildfire smoke effects in the northeastern United States. Dataset version 2 is public; a journal publication was not verified.

Evidence & status 2026 conference abstract and public dataset

Hannah Slesinski and Jocelyn Behm evaluate detection range, background noise, direction and identification thresholds. Conference evidence, not a verified published journal article.

Evidence & status 2025 conference abstract, Temple University

Danish comparison of detections and activity patterns from a PUC and a human listener, followed by reporting on acoustic monitoring as a supplement to migration recording. Keep site-specific performance estimates separate from general device accuracy claims.

Evidence & status Draft field evaluation, updated July 2025; related 2026 observatory article

Compares Merlin, BirdWeather and BirdNET identification outputs across 15 observation sessions around Denver, including errors caused by mimicry. These are comparison workflows, not three independent underlying AI models.

Evidence & status 2026 undergraduate symposium, MSU Denver

Cross-border Biodiversity Tool Box work tests AudioMoth and BirdWeather PUC in 2025 as monitoring tools for urban biodiversity interventions. The thesis covers birds, bats and pollinators; that does not mean the tested PUC identified all three groups.

Evidence & status University of Padova thesis, 2024–25 academic year

Environmental measurements from PUC sensors support a Guilford County arthropod study. This is a use of the environmental sensing platform, rather than BirdWeather bird-identification records.

Evidence & status 2024 undergraduate research abstract

Combines BirdWeather detections and audio with environmental information to flag unusual activity and acoustic patterns for expert review. Evaluated against virus and mortality references; it is not a validated diagnostic system.

Evidence & status Research-placement prototype, February–June 2026

Insect acoustic-recognition project includes a BirdWeather benchmark comparison with BirdNET. Includes audible and ultrasonic experiments. The anonymized review repository is the same research effort.

Evidence & status Public research code; publication status not verified

Field comparison of acoustic models, with a documented BirdWeather submission pathway. No associated peer-reviewed result verified.

Evidence & status Public experimental code

Combines acoustic detections, feeder observations and other environmental or migration information for a local backyard ecology dashboard and analyses.

Evidence & status Public analysis project

Side-by-side garden observations compare PUC, a BirdWeather-connected audio stream and Haikubox. Downloadable observation tables make this a reproducible citizen evaluation, not a controlled published validation.

Evidence & status Documented 2024 personal comparison

Little Owl call monitoring in the Netherlands, using deployed PUCs and volunteer review of recordings to investigate calling behavior.

Evidence & status Documented 2026 citizen-science project

Volunteer project collected a 2024 baseline and redeployed a PUC after the fire to follow bird community recovery. Its broader bird-and-bat project uses more than one recording device.

Evidence & status Documented monitoring before and after the 2025 Eaton Fire

A 24-hour survey across ten community-supported farms combines acoustic monitoring with human observations to explore farm bird diversity.

Evidence & status Documented May 2025 survey

Three PUC units tested at Sionnet, Mategnin and Bois de Châtillon to assess wetland bird detection and the usefulness of acoustic monitoring.

Evidence & status 2024 pilot and public report

PUC bird monitoring at conservation properties in Chatham-Kent, alongside other wildlife audio recorders. Broader program includes species-at-risk work.

Evidence & status Documented 2024 monitoring program

BirdWeather stations at Alazas on Naxos and Gundari/Petousis on Folegandros, plus mobile observations from the research vessel Artina. Grouped as one organizational program.

Evidence & status Documented field stations

Restoration and predator-control program lists BirdWeather PUC ID alongside annual five-minute bird counts. The funding document is evidence of stated methods, not of completed restoration outcomes.

Evidence & status Use documented in a community-fund application

BirdWeather station provides bird detections and environmental context for a nature refuge. Its other research programs should not automatically be attributed to the PUC.

Evidence & status Documented monitoring station

BirdWeather appears in the sanctuary's ecological monitoring and citizen-science activities.

Evidence & status Documented sanctuary science program

William Rippon describes donated PUCs used as passive sensors at a South African reserve. Source is a first-person WILDLABS field account.

Evidence & status Practitioner-reported field deployment

Acoustic listening supports exploration of birds associated with restored or managed open farm habitats.

Evidence & status Documented farm listening station

Public stations and outreach at locations including Amity Creek, Boulder Lake Environmental Learning Center, Chik-Wauk and Hawk Ridge. Grouped as one regional community effort.

Evidence & status Builder-reported public network, 2026

Local soundscape monitoring and data art, with the station shared through OE-Map for place-based learning across the Okanagan.

Evidence & status Documented community monitoring and visualization

Before-and-after visualization of local bird detections around tree removal. An illustrative local observation, not a demonstrated causal effect.

Evidence & status Exploratory citizen-science example, 2025

Student and citizen-science observations across eight or more locations, including the arboretum, E.H. Steffen Center and Magpie Forest, explore seasonal arrivals and urban–rural differences.

Evidence & status Public monitoring report, May 2024

Nocturnal migration initiative uses PUC and BirdNET-Pi observations with an interactive map, initially focused on Regensburg. ZUG-BirdNet and its GitHub code are components of this same project.

Evidence & status Documented conservation and visualization project

Audi apprentices and LBV developed solar-powered birdhouse-style acoustic stations using Raspberry Pi and BirdNET, with observations sent to BirdWeather.

Evidence & status Documented hardware and conservation pilot

Passive monitoring of resident and migratory birds, presented through a public BirdWeather observations page.

Evidence & status Documented preserve monitoring

Two Norwegian stations illustrate continuous listening under extreme seasonal daylight and winter conditions. A case-study grouping, not a coordinated research trial.

Evidence & status Documented community stations, 2024 spotlight

Travis and Jacki use a PUC in Lafayette, Indiana, and on birding trips to Costa Rica and Colombia, combining sound records with visual observations.

Evidence & status Documented mobile and backyard project

Six PUCs support biodiversity teaching and field comparisons, including riparian collaboration with the University of Oregon.

Evidence & status Documented funded teaching project, 2024

Campus bird occupancy and habitat use work informed by several PUCs, with relevance to bird-friendly campus practices.

Evidence & status Documented 2025 student independent study

Public environmental-data display and student activities track local bird diversity and seasonal patterns; internship material includes a solar-powered PUC project.

Evidence & status Documented monitoring and internship program

Interactive museum exhibit brings local bird detections to visitors. Source and deployment repositories are grouped as one exhibit.

Evidence & status 2024 conference poster and public code

A real-time bird display described by its developer as built for Mass Audubon. Deployment was not independently confirmed from an institutional page.

Evidence & status Public code; institution named by developer

Bird-monitoring systems for schools with BirdNET-Go and BirdWeather participation.

Evidence & status Documented education initiative

Live bird tracking installed with Susquehanna Riverkeepers Association, forming part of sanctuary environmental education.

Evidence & status Organization-reported educational field station

Program supplies educators with PUCs and classroom possibilities. Individual classrooms are not inferred from the overall donation total.

Evidence & status Official education initiative

BirdNET-Pi setup and BirdWeather API examples for school-based bird-call monitoring.

Evidence & status Public educational tutorial

Live and historical station data power maps, activity analytics and classroom exploration. Two related platform repositories are grouped here.

Evidence & status Public educational platform code

Tools and instructions for making nonhuman activity visible in ecological and arts settings. Related toolkit repositories are grouped together.

Evidence & status Public creative-education toolkit

Local continuous sound recognition with optional BirdWeather uploads. The original mcguirepr89 project directs users to the Nachtzuster community continuation; mirrors are not counted separately.

Evidence & status Public software; original repository deprecated

Self-hosted continuous acoustic monitoring with explicit BirdWeather integration. Configuration and optional upload are separate from local sound analysis.

Evidence & status Public software

Python-based station with a modern web interface. Its BirdWeather service implements soundscape and detection upload even though the short top-level README does not mention it.

Evidence & status Public software; integration source verified

Expanded BirdNET-Pi interface and observation workflows; BirdWeather uploads are explicitly opt-in.

Evidence & status Public derivative software

Extends local monitoring to ultrasonic bats and custom classifiers. Its inherited BirdNET-Pi documentation lists BirdWeather integration; compatibility for every bat model/output was not verified.

Evidence & status Public derivative software

Rust implementation of local acoustic detection with BirdWeather upload support.

Evidence & status Public code

Rust-based local monitoring with behavioral analytics and BirdWeather uploads.

Evidence & status Public code

Modular local bird detector with an optional BirdWeather connection.

Evidence & status Public code

Local acoustic pipeline forwarding detections and audio to BirdWeather.

Evidence & status Public code

Local station software with multiple-model analysis and BirdWeather contribution support.

Evidence & status Public code

Small-screen birdsong identification station, operating offline with optional BirdWeather synchronization when connected.

Evidence & status Public code

Kiwi-oriented bird station platform combines BirdNET-Pi-style monitoring with BirdWeather station statistics and community recordings.

Evidence & status Public derivative code

RTSP-fed BirdNET-Go system with mapping, alerts and optional display components; optional BirdWeather participation.

Evidence & status Public prototype

Local BirdNET detection with MQTT output and an optional BirdWeather station submission setting.

Evidence & status Public code

Python microphone-based bird classifier with documented BirdWeather logging/upload support.

Evidence & status Public prototype

Monitoring pipeline with local exports and optional BirdWeather participation.

Evidence & status Public student-project code

Personal local detection node with optional BirdWeather reporting.

Evidence & status Public build/project documentation

Outdoor station construction guide with BirdWeather support in the monitoring setup.

Evidence & status Public build guide

Named BirdNET-Pi variant retaining a BirdWeather connection. Other undifferentiated Pi copies are grouped in the audit appendix.

Evidence & status Public derivative code

Named BirdNET-Go variants retain documented BirdWeather integration. Grouped as variants rather than independent BirdWeather platforms.

Evidence & status Public derivative code

BirdWeather station exploration and visualization, including activity patterns, comparisons and soundscape exploration. No verified public source-code repository found; unrelated Twitter tools named TweetSheet are excluded.

Evidence & status Public web app, introduced May 2026

Garden bird discovery and tracking with a web interface. A community project featured by BirdWeather; its app and repository are one entry.

Evidence & status Public web app and code

Station-based species-by-hour visualizations, useful for comparing daily vocal activity.

Evidence & status Public chart tool; featured by BirdWeather

Multi-station analytics, bird activity charts and environmental comparisons.

Evidence & status Public code

Annual species activity, dawn chorus and seasonal timing visualizations. Related derekeder and wilkart versions are grouped to avoid counting the same project family repeatedly.

Evidence & status Public code

Hourly activity, seasonal detection volume, species gallery and environmental comparisons using PUC readings.

Evidence & status Public dashboard

Station dashboard showing activity, common birds and first or unusual appearances.

Evidence & status Public code

Multi-station web dashboard with a retro desktop-style interface.

Evidence & status Public code

Simple recent-bird display using BirdWeather observations. The JeroenBoersma copy is grouped with the iMartzen project.

Evidence & status Public code

Ticker for recent detections, including non-avian identifications where returned by the source.

Evidence & status Public code

Maps observations from BirdWeather, eBird and other sources alongside modeled distributions and seasonal occurrence. Model predictions and observed detections are different layers. Release-candidate repository grouped here.

Evidence & status Public web app and code

Self-hosted field journal for a BirdWeather station, using cloud APIs for observations and history.

Evidence & status Public code

Self-hosted PUC dashboard for phones, computers and kiosk screens, using public GraphQL station data.

Evidence & status Public code

Nightly archives of station detections plus a periodically refreshed public dashboard.

Evidence & status Public code

Single-station dashboard with scheduled collection of environmental sensor history.

Evidence & status Public code

React viewer for BirdWeather detections.

Evidence & status Public code

Species information, public station analysis and private BirdNET-Pi export exploration.

Evidence & status Public code

Finds and displays nearby BirdWeather stations and their observations.

Evidence & status Public code

eBird observations mapped with species photos supplied by BirdWeather. A media integration rather than use of BirdWeather detection records.

Evidence & status Public code

Small PUC dashboard repository. Feature scope is not well documented.

Evidence & status Public code; sparse documentation

Map-oriented station/detection project; limited public description.

Evidence & status Public code; sparse documentation

Station/event monitoring dashboard for a named transect deployment.

Evidence & status Public project code

Personal station statistics and a detection ticker.

Evidence & status Public web pages and code

Plots timestamped GPS detections along travel routes, using bird images and connecting lines. Described by its maker; reusable public code not verified.

Evidence & status Author-documented visualization

Companion app for BirdWeather, BirdNET-Pi and BirdNET-Go with multiple stations, audio and activity views. The Shamdon/perch repository carries related BirdEcho documentation and is grouped here.

Evidence & status Public Android app code

Desktop access to BirdWeather PUC station data.

Evidence & status Public macOS app code

Home-screen station information using Scriptable.

Evidence & status Public iOS widget code

Mobile interface to a local BirdNET-Pi station, including its BirdWeather integration settings. It is not documented as an independent BirdWeather-cloud viewer.

Evidence & status Public app code

Automated bird reports with visualizations; jdchristensen and pbleic derivatives grouped as one family.

Evidence & status Public code

Daily email digest of species detected at one or more family stations.

Evidence & status Public code

Email summaries of station bird observations.

Evidence & status Public code

Python scripts for BirdWeather reporting.

Evidence & status Public code; sparse documentation

Posts station detections or summaries to Bluesky.

Evidence & status Public code

Daily Bluesky/Mastodon summaries and longer-term graphs for BirdWeather, Haikubox and Ambient Weather sources.

Evidence & status Public code

Station and detection monitoring in Telegram, with optional eBird enrichment and a read-only MCP interface.

Evidence & status Public code

Raspberry Pi frame renders locally detected birds using curated historical illustrations on e-paper, televisions or other screens. Its documented source is BirdNET-Go; a direct BirdWeather API mode was not found.

Evidence & status Public code; early development

Bird collage with optional e-paper frame. The frame can use regional BirdWeather data or one station. UK, Upper Brookfield, Melbourne, xsaveopt and Umbrel adaptations are grouped as related builds.

Evidence & status Public code and live example

A related live-bird art display with a distinct illustration style and regional BirdWeather support. Listed as a named adaptation, with its lineage noted.

Evidence & status Public derivative code

ESP32 e-paper frame displaying historical bird art for detected species.

Evidence & status Public code

Field-journal plates for color e-paper, using station summaries or other observation sources. The baldyparrot/Birdy version belongs to the same project family.

Evidence & status Public code

Artwork for Samsung Frame TVs based on the birds detected near a station.

Evidence & status Public code

Bird-based artwork for Samsung Frame television displays.

Evidence & status Public code

BirdWeather station information on a TRMNL e-paper display.

Evidence & status Public display plugin code

BirdWeather detections and station information for a Tidbyt display.

Evidence & status Public display code

Bird activity and regional nature imagery presented as desktop wallpaper.

Evidence & status Public code

Helsinki station observations presented as a woodblock-style bird collage.

Evidence & status Public code

Daily nature newspaper combining birds, local weather and sky information.

Evidence & status Public code

E-paper-oriented nature display combining regional birds and sky information.

Evidence & status Public code

Mobile PUC observations and species timing enrich nature journals and illustrations about place, weather and fire ecology.

Evidence & status Documented journaling practice, 2024 spotlight

BirdWeather station entities and dashboard cards using the platform's APIs.

Evidence & status Public integration and cards

Extends the eklundjon integration with bat identifications, behavior, views and automation triggers.

Evidence & status Public derivative integration

Home Assistant dashboard combines PUC observations with Bird Buddy postcards and feeder information.

Evidence & status Public configuration project

Station overview, top-species photo wall and Bird Buddy postcard viewer.

Evidence & status Public dashboard cards

Live station data for Hubitat; brossow and texasaggie97 versions are grouped as one driver family.

Evidence & status Public driver code

Polls the BirdWeather API and publishes observations to MQTT for downstream displays and automations.

Evidence & status Public code

Exposes BirdWeather data to Prometheus-style monitoring; related Home Assistant add-on packaging is grouped here.

Evidence & status Public code and Home Assistant packaging

Packages BirdNET-Go for Home Assistant with its optional BirdWeather station setting. The repository name does not establish an official Merlin API integration.

Evidence & status Public packaging project

Combines feeder-camera observations with acoustic BirdWeather information.

Evidence & status Public code

Research-oriented access to acoustic and environmental data. A lab page lists a JOSS manuscript in review, but the public submission is closed/rejected at pre-review; no JOSS publication verified.

Evidence & status Public R package

Converts exported detections to an eBird record format. Formatting does not make automated detections validated observations or authorize unattended submission.

Evidence & status Public conversion code

Editor for PUC-related CSV data.

Evidence & status Public code; sparse documentation

Collects local records for selected migration species through the BirdWeather API.

Evidence & status Public code

Cached read-only station data through a Cloudflare Worker, with benwaldencab.in as a related deployment.

Evidence & status Public API relay code

Shortcodes for embedding BirdWeather information in WordPress sites.

Evidence & status Public plugin code

Custom GPT project for bird statistics and observation queries; availability and live actions were not tested.

Evidence & status Public assistant project

Exposes bird-statistics system prompts and API schemas/context. Its documented tools are not themselves a general live BirdWeather data-fetching service.

Evidence & status Public MCP server code

Station species, environmental readings, local history and new-species alerts. Reviewed as an integration project, not installed or run.

Evidence & status Public assistant integration

Reproduces discrepancies between API and CSV views, useful for understanding data quality and extraction differences.

Evidence & status Public diagnostic code

Foundation for third-party projects: detections, station views, soundscapes, filtering and export. REST and GraphQL are access routes within the same platform, not separate research projects.

Evidence & status Public services and documentation

Mobile soundscape exploration, station interaction and PUC workflows. Grouped separately from third-party apps.

Evidence & status Published iOS and Android listings

Hardware contributors to the platform, including standard and bat-oriented recording capabilities. These are one product family here; specific field uses are listed under their projects.

Evidence & status Public products

BirdWeather ingests live audio streams, with Locus Sonus identified as a source network. Individual stream deployments are not all separately catalogued.

Evidence & status Officially documented station type

Feeder, nest and landscape stream audio can form BirdWeather stations; these are a connection route rather than a single research project.

Evidence & status Officially documented station type

BirdWeather's station-types page describes BirdNET-app and eBird observation layers. This is not evidence that eBird accepts unattended BirdWeather detections, or that all BirdNET projects upload to BirdWeather.

Evidence & status Officially documented platform connection

Produces reports, activity charts and phenology plots from BirdNET-family CSV data. Supports Pi/PiPy/Go workflows; no native BirdWeather connector was verified.

Evidence & status Public reporting tool; direct BirdWeather import not verified

Dial, bar-chart and tabular displays from BirdNET-Analyzer output. Included as a useful nearby visualization tool.

Evidence & status Public code; direct BirdWeather link not verified

Live bird collage card for a BirdNET-Go-powered Home Assistant dashboard. Direct BirdWeather-cloud support not established.

Evidence & status Public Home Assistant display code

Local Pi signage that can sit beside a BirdWeather-uploading station; it does not establish that the display consumes BirdWeather data.

Evidence & status Public display code

Publishes an Avian-style rendered page to a small display; its README explicitly excludes the BirdWeather-specific server code.

Evidence & status Public code; BirdWeather-specific code excluded