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A new software update for the DOC AI Cam allows enables the audio bird monitor.

Our old bird monitors have recently stopped uploading recordings. These bird monitors typically use old Android phones which stopped recognising th...

Norfolk Island are using The Cacophony Project Bird Monitors to create hotspots of various birds, including Morepork and Feral Chickens. These inform and direct their conservation efforts and will enable them to measure progress over the years.

You can now see tagging stats - what has been tagged, who did it and where.

You can now add notes to bird recordings and flag the recording as requiring review, or cool. Stations with no recordings can now be deleted.

We now have the ability to automatically remove recordings that contain human voices. Also, you can now pin as many tags as you want.

The Cacophony Bird Monitor can now recognise human, kiwi, morepork, whistler, generic bird calls, bellbird, black noddy, blackbird,  crimson rosella, fantail, frog, grey warbler, house sparrow, insect, noise, norfolk gerygone, norfolk robin, rifleman, rooster, silvereye, sooty tern, sparrow, white tern. More improvements are on their way.

A new software release means our bird monitor will now recognise kiwi, whistler and humans. We also have a new Cacophony Index.

Our bird recognition algorithm now identifies generic bird song. This should help you when you're tagging birds and will help us make a better Cacophony Index.

A summary of the companies exhibiting on the PF2050 stand at Fieldays 2022: NZ Autotraps, Envico, Trap.NZ, Encounter Solutions, eTrapper, Boffa Miskell, and of course The Cacophony Project.

An analysis of 38,000 bird recordings taken across Banks Peninsula, showing the relative abundance of birds and morepork.

You can now create your own email alerts when specific animals are detected. Up until now you had to ask us to set this up for you. A new interface...