Re:BirdNet – Identify Birds by Sound
by anigbrowl on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:36PM
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Thanks for your work! I'm installing right now but won't be able to try it out for a while. How far away are we from distinguishing between different calls from the same species?
Some birds in my locale mostly repeat themselves, but some seem to have 'vocabularies' of 3-5 different calls, and you can hear pitch and timing inflections within those - might be just random variation in combination with different calls it might yield 30-60 'words'. Sometimes I've been sitting under a tree and heard what seemed to start out as a conversation that degenerated into an argument followed by a physical fight.
Even crows seem to have distinct patterns/variations in their cawing, and given what we know about their tool-using abilities I'm curious to know how they use their voices. I've seen remarkable behaviors like a group of crows harassing a falcon to interfere with its pursuit of a smaller songbird.
Some birds in my locale mostly repeat themselves, but some seem to have 'vocabularies' of 3-5 different calls, and you can hear pitch and timing inflections within those - might be just random variation in combination with different calls it might yield 30-60 'words'. Sometimes I've been sitting under a tree and heard what seemed to start out as a conversation that degenerated into an argument followed by a physical fight.
Even crows seem to have distinct patterns/variations in their cawing, and given what we know about their tool-using abilities I'm curious to know how they use their voices. I've seen remarkable behaviors like a group of crows harassing a falcon to interfere with its pursuit of a smaller songbird.