BirdNET v1.96

Stefan Kahl

About this app

Developer Description

The easiest way to identify birds by sound.

How can computers learn to recognize birds from sounds? The BirdNET research project uses artificial intelligence and neural networks to train computers to identify more than 3,000 of the most common species worldwide. You can record a file using the microphone of your Android device and see if BirdNET correctly identifies the probable bird species present in your recording. Get to know the birds around you and help us to collect observations by submitting your recordings.

BirdNET is a joint project of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Chemnitz University of Technology.

What's New

BirdNET: The easiest way to identify birds by sound.

Version Information

Version: 1.96
Downloads: 5M+
Updated on: Jun 12, 2025
Released: Sep 21, 2018
Requires: Android 7.0

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★★★★★

Sarah Johnstone

I love this app! Only ever knew 1 or 2 common birdsongs before; it seemed too hard to attempt to learn more (and frankly the image of 'twitchers' isn't the coolest..! I couldn't have been more wrong, I've been steadily adding common birds thanks to this app and now regularly recognise 15-20 species when out for walks, it couldn't be easier-just like learning new words in a language :) My one ask would be a way to retrieve previous observations on an old phone?

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Christopher Robin

I have reinstalled this app to try again, having given up on it last year. It was always failing with "could not connect to server" or "we are experiencing technical difficulties". Since reinstalling have had a couple of successful identifications, so I'm hopeful that it has improved. It is a superb app when it works.

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Gary Hodges

Doesn't seem to be identifying birds as well as previously!

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ICH Shares

It sounded like a good APP to identify bird song. But I got not one correct identification in my region, Haute Provence (France), althougt I had the location set correctly. Some wrong identifications were quite hilarious. Like to mistake the cries of a little owl shortly after midnight with a gull or the song of a nightingale sitting in the bush in front of me by a robin. So, unfortunately this App is useless to identify birds in Southern France.

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Roberta Eastman

This app is absolutely terrible. No matter how many birds you record it's a 1 out of 10 that you may get a response. Otherwise, it's sorry it can't identify. Crazy & frustrating.