Summary

We hear the terms ‘artificial intelligence’ and ‘AI’ all the time these days. Beyond the issue of evil robots taking over the world, AI technology is helping scientists do some pretty amazing things in the field of ornithology.

In this episode, we’ll talk about what artificial intelligence is and give some interesting examples of how it’s being used to study birds.

We’ll also touch on some tools that use artificial intelligence to help you in your quest to identify birds.

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Links of Interest

• BirdCast
• BirdNet
• Merlin
• iNaturalist
• Haiku Box
• Digital Guide monocular ‍
  

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Research Citations

• Classification success of six machine learning algorithms in radar ornithology
• Deep learning‐based methods for individual recognition in small birds
• Integrating drone-borne thermal imaging with artificial intelligence to locate bird nests on agricultural land
• Using artificial intelligence classification of videos to examine videos of nest provisioning

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Photos of Some Species Mentioned

Attributions

• Northern Lapwing sound (Xeno Canto recording XC638538)

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