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You can now tag at a finer level of granularity. For example, rather than tagging a track as a mustelid you have the option of tagging it as a stoat, weasel or ferret

You can now change the length of your bird monitor recordings.

A new software release adds a couple more requested features:

• the ability to add pictures to recordings, and
• the ability to manually upload bird recordings.

Bird tagging improvements include the ability to zoom in on the frequency axis, change the colour pallet, and an expanded list of birds. Several small bug fixes, a new bird monitor manual and a video showing how to do the tagging.

A new software update includes improvements to audio and video tagging, making the process more efficient and precise. Zoom in on a audio recording to see the wave form, add attributes, many more labels and the ability to control which buttons you see. Station locations are now created automatically

Three bird monitors were installed at Lake Hāwea Station to monitor the biodiversity outcomes from trapping and planting of native bush. This includes a description of the carbon positive farming practices used on this high country station.

A new tagging interface for audio recordings includes a spectrogram enabling you to easily identify the interesting parts of a recording. The Cacophony Index and tags added by machine learning are now visible.

We have just released our automatic ruru/morepork identification software. This software runs over every file uploaded from a Cacophony Bird Monito...

A summary of the Pestival hui on Great Barrier Island, April 2021.

A discussion of a research paper comparing human and automatic bird monitors.

Automatic algorithms developed by The Cacophony Project have been used to find recordings of Morepork in Karaka Bay and Centennial Park.

Two Android apps developed by the Cacophony Project have recently been updated: the Bird Monitor and Sidekick apps. Bird Monitor At the heart of t...