“In fact, not only can WeBIRD tell you which species you’re hearing, it’s good enough to identify individual birds from their song.”
Designed by Mark Berres, a University of Wisconsin–Madison ornithologist.
October 12, 2011
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VERY cool.
Why not iBird?
Free Bird!!!!!!
Bender: "Do they have an app for kissing my shiny, metal ass?"
Nerd: "Several."
Way Cool!!! now I'm going to have to go get an iPhone!!!!
My son does a perfect cardinal. He fools my cat. He's done it in movie theaters and has had ushers looking for the birds.
I wonder if he could fool We Bird.
WeBIRD. Sounds like Ebonics.
If an F22 passes low overhead, does it say "Raptor, Raptor..run for your life."
Will it recognize a turd bird?
WeBIRD. Sounds like Ebonics.
No, that would be "DatBird", "WackBIRD" or "CrazyassedBIRD"
I'd like an app that could identify wildflower species from camera phone pictures.
I'd like an app that could identify wildflower species from camera phone pictures.
Or spiders from a picture. Especially the really big, fuzzy ones. Or that one that just bit me with the violin on it's back...
My son does a perfect cardinal.
Heh... I do too!!! That was my favorite bird growing up in Dallas. Sadly, out here in CA, we don't have them, so no one ever recognizes my whistle.
Useful, educational, valuable, obvious, wonderful application. When I first read the headline, I thought it was something like Angry Birds, which is none of those things.
Great.
Does it detect a Roadrunner's laugh?
Perry and Romney will need it to detect the laugh of Roadrunner Cain leaving them in the dust.
Cool.
My nephew showed me an ap that if you hold your phone up in the air, it will show you which constellations are overhead.
Anyone know how to get this app?
@MarkG I guess it's not up yet. I'm just reading the announcement at the UW website.
Excellent!
So now I can perfectly identify the precise bird that is waking me up early in the morning, track it down and shoot it?
Outstanding!
:)
well, you can use it to identify the bird, but you're going to need iSHOOT to actually, well, you know...
photograph it?
That's awesome!
It's cool along the lines of one of my favorite pop-up books Birdscapes. Available directly through the Althouse-Amazon portal. I just now noticed they've sold 400K copies.
Each double page opens to a different habitat with birds placed within it. An extended audio file plays birds calls. The calls are overlapped. The idea is to match the sound with the bird pictured in the splayed tableau. The book helps you match bird to call two ways including a key in the back, but for the life of me I cannot match bird to call for a single spread, even for the habitat and birds of my own area. It's a great learning instrument for people better at this sort of thing than me. The tiny batteries of my copy were dead on arrival so I enjoyed the book without sound until they were replaced, and then a whole noisy bird world opened up. The sound stops when you turn the page or close it.
It's likely to be very tricky to do, unless it limits itself to easy ones.
The particular song is less important than what it sounds like it is. There's huge variation.
It might have an application to easy ones that you just don't know owing to rarity, like warblers that only sing in early May.
It would be more likely to be correct if it used location and month and migration patterns as much as song, the song being just one input.
Also there are calls and songs, which are quite different.
Newcomb's Wildflower Guide, for wildflowers.
@chip Just go ear alone and ignore what the bird looks like. You won't be able to find the bird anyway.
The Peterson Backyard Bird Song is a trivial beginning, then Peterson Birding by Ear. At some point the narrator will begin to be less helpful than the time he takes, and then the Stokes CD set is better.
The narrator though teaches you how to listen, which is important to start.
Peterson's second Birding by Ear set is well past that point.
Why not iBird?
That name is already taken by another great bird identification app.
Surely this must conflcit with the "Angry Birds" app. I don't see how the two could exist on the same device.
wiiBird?
WeBIRD just told me "that guy in the white Camry is really pissed that you wouldn't let him make that right turn from the middle lane." Anyone ever heard of that species?
This might be what pushes me over the edge to get a smartphone. Very fun.
I love knowing who the bird neighbors are wherever I'm at.
No such app.
I just went to the Apple App Store.
Yeah, I think they only developed the database so far, and he was musing on how cool a smartphone app would be if it could integrate with that database. Badly written article.
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