beSpacific on Nostr: Most #birds #migrate at night, when it’s more difficult to identify them visually ...

Most #birds #migrate at night, when it’s more difficult to identify them visually and while most birders are in bed. For over a century, acoustic monitoring has hovered tantalizingly out of reach as a method that would solve #ornithologists’ woes...software called BirdVoxDetect, the result of a collaboration between New York University, the #Cornell Lab of #Ornithology, and École Centrale de Nantes, identifies the bird and classifies it to the #species level. https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/18/1108423/bird-migration-ai-machine-learning-ecology-research/ #migration