BirdGenie™
BirdGenie™
Record
Tap anywhere on BirdGenie’s™ opening screen to record a singing bird: our Pre-Record feature means you’ll never miss the start of the song.
Identify
BirdGenie™ includes up to two hundred vocalization types for one hundred species: all of the birds likely to be encountered in a backyard, local park, or on a hike in North America at any time of the year. The app is easy to use: just point your smartphone or tablet at a bird, and tap the screen when the bird starts singing. The app’s automatic pre-record feature ensures that you won’t miss the beginning of the song and BirdGenie’s™ patented, highly accurate expert system matches the recording to the closest species. The app’s sophisticated noise-reduction feature means that even in noisy environments, where there is conversation or traffic, you can discover what bird you’re listening to.
Discover
Tap again to stop the recording at the end of the song and BirdGenie™ immediately analyzes and identifies the bird from its extensive onboard library–no internet connection required.
Record
Tap anywhere on BirdGenie’s™ opening screen to record a singing bird: our Pre-Record feature means you’ll never miss the start of the song.
Identify
BirdGenie™ includes up to two hundred vocalization types for one hundred species: all of the birds likely to be encountered in a backyard, local park, or on a hike in North America at any time of the year. The app is easy to use: just point your smartphone or tablet at a bird, and tap the screen when the bird starts singing. The app’s automatic pre-record feature ensures that you won’t miss the beginning of the song and BirdGenie’s™ patented, highly accurate expert system matches the recording to the closest species. The app’s sophisticated noise-reduction feature means that even in noisy environments, where there is conversation or traffic, you can discover what bird you’re listening to.
Discover
Tap again to stop the recording at the end of the song and BirdGenie™ immediately analyzes and identifies the bird from its extensive onboard library–no internet connection required.
Explore
After matching you can find out more about each species, browse their songs, learn about their habits, see photos of all of the bird’s different plumages, and share your recording with friends.
My Matches
This screen shows you all of the matches you have made. From here you can easily share your recordings, tap on the species to learn more about them, or re-edit and rematch them.
Developers
Stephen Travis Pope
Stephen Travis Pope is an award-winning composer, performer, and software engineer who develops new digital-audio processing applications. He has worked on audio analysis programs and music search engines for over a decade. In 2007, the Electronic Music Foundation released a triple-disc anthology of his music and videos
Tom Stephenson
Tom Stephenson’s articles and photos have appeared in Birding and Bird Watcher’s Digest, at Surfbirds.com, and in the Handbook of the Birds of the World. He has guided groups across the United States and Asia. A musician, he has had several Grammy and Academy Award winners as clients, and was director of technology at Roland Corporation. He is the coauthor, with Scott Whittle, of The Warbler Guide (Princeton University Press), a groundbreaking visual and sound identification guide.
Scott Whittle
Scott Whittle lives in Cape May, New Jersey, and has twenty years of experience as a professional photographer and educator. His images have been published in a wide range of magazines, newspapers, and books. He holds an MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York, is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony, and is a one-time New York State Big Year record holder. He and Tom Stephenson are members of the team that holds the U.S. Big Photo Day record. He is also the coauthor, with Tom Stephenson, of The Warbler Guide (Princeton University Press).
What is BirdGenie™?
BirdGenie™ is a new app that allows you to identify birds by their songs. By simply pointing your phone at the bird and tapping the record button, BirdGenie™ analyzes the song and helps you identify the species confidently from a small selection of the closest matches.
What birds will BirdGenie™ identify?
Will you add more birds to BirdGenie™?
What geographical area and habitats does BirdGenie™ cover?
Do you need to be connected to the internet for BirdGenie to work?