Join a growing community of citizen scientists
To live sustainably and have a healthy planet, we must understand how the systems which we depend on function.
Birds are a critical component of virtually every ecosystem on earth, and their fate is intertwined with ours.
BirdNET uses a neural network to identify birds by the sounds they make, and is a joint project between the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Chemnitz University of Technology.
Studying birds and bird populations is a way to further our understanding of the ecosystems that support all life on earth (including humans). Changes in bird populations and their behavior can tell us a great deal about the impacts of climate change, drought, weather, and habitat change.
Using the BirdNET artificial neural network, BirdWeather is continuously listening to a growing number of citizen science stations around the globe.
With your own BirdWeather station, you're not only contributing to the global community, you can identify and track the species in your own backyard!
Our open approach supports a growing list of ways to participate.
Since going live on Nov 4, 2021 we've heard
... different species vocalize
... times across
... locations.
Set up your PUC outside and we’ll continuously listen for any birds in your backyard soundscape, posting all detections to BirdWeather.
Take your PUC with you (even stash in a safe place for a few days) and once you're back home, it will automatically upload to BirdWeather.
Our BirdWeather Mobile App (for iOS) is now available in the App Store for iPhone/iPad! With the BirdWeather app, you’ve got the full power of the BirdNET AI in your pocket. Featuring:
Note - our Android app currently only supports the BirdWeather PUC
From the beginning, we built BirdWeather to be an open system, with multiple ways for researchers to pull data from the library.