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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.

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You can now delete recordings in bulk. Up to now you could only delete recordings individually. This was painful if you wanted to delete lots of recordings. Now it is easy.

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...

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 your display name and are required to use your email address to log onto Cacophony Portal and Sidekick. When adding to users to a group you must now use their email address.

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

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.

New software release to the Cacophony Portal includes improved visits reporting, more maps and the ability to listen to audio lures before uploading them to a thermal camera with a speaker.

Newly released software includes an undelete functionality and the ability to reset your password, along with various bug fixes.