News

  • A comparison between bird monitoring techniques

    by Shaun Ryan
    A discussion of a research paper comparing human and automatic bird monitors.
    Posted in Bird Monitor

  • Morepork/ruru in Karaka Bay

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

  • Updated Bird Monitor and Sidekick apps.

    by Shaun Ryan
    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...
    Posted in Bird Monitor, Sidekick, Software updates, Thermal Camera

  • Cacophony Index back processing now complete

    by Shaun Ryan
    We started calculating Cacophony Index values for each bird recording back in December. A few weeks ago we made the Cacophony Index accessible usin...
    Posted in Bird Monitor, Cacophony Portal

  • You can now see your Cacophony Index

    by Shaun Ryan
    As promised, the fantastic engineers at The Cacophony Project have released the first version of the Cacophony Index and you can now have a look at...
    Posted in Bird Monitor, Cacophony Portal, Software updates

  • Software updates - November 2019

    by Shaun Ryan
    The Cacophony team now have a weekly release cycle where new software is released to a test environment and tested software is released to producti...
    Posted in Bird Monitor, Cacophony Portal, Software updates, Thermal Camera

  • Bird monitors can use battery packs now

    by Shaun Ryan
    The power bank enabler is now available for sale, allow you to use power banks with your bird monitor, and a smaller, lower cost solar option.
    Posted in Bird Monitor

  • Automatic bird detection is coming

    by Shaun Ryan
    We have a new machine learning engineer working on a Cacophony Index, automatic speech detection and automatic bird classification
    Posted in Bird Monitor, Software updates

  • Record your five-minute bird counts

    by Shaun Ryan
    5 minute bird counts are a popular way of monitoring forest birds. One of the problems with these is that they are sensitive to the hearing abiliti...
    Posted in Bird Monitor, Software updates

  • New search and video viewing interface and data export

    by Shaun Ryan
    This week we have released a new version of our search interface, tidied up our page for viewing videos, fixed a few errors and created an easy way...
    Posted in Bird Monitor, Cacophony Portal, Software updates, Thermal Camera

  • Longer battery life and cheaper solar for Bird Monitors coming

    by Shaun Ryan
    The intention of this article is to give you a little bit of insight into what's coming up for the Bird Monitor and into our development process. C...
    Posted in Bird Monitor

  • First morepork automatically identified

    by Shaun Ryan
    Tim Hunt is a lecturer at the Centre for Information Technology at Wintec.  Tim has done a lot of work on the software for the Bird Monitor and rec...
    Posted in Bird Monitor