The Finch Research Network is collaborating with Foothills Birds and Haikubox!
For the past several years, the Finch Research Network (FiRN) has collaborated with “Foothills Birds.” The spot is located in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, east of Kananskis Country and southwest of Calgary, Alberta, close to Brown-Lowery Provincial Park, and it is a Certified Wildlife Friendly Habitat by the Canadian Wildlife Federation. This location hosts many Evening Grosbeaks, Pine Grosbeaks, and/or Pine Siskins and Redpolls, among other species, and FiRN sponsors a Feedercam you can view here. (ADD LINK)
Haikubox is the smart bird song identification device that brings its owners real time alerts, bird call sound recordings, and loads of information about their birds. It uses BirdNET technology which was developed at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Fostering a collaboration between the Foothills Birds location and Haikubox means we can learn more about the important birds that visit this site, and we are excited to announce this joint endeavor. With each Haikubox listening and recording birds 24/7, we hope to analyze Red Crossbill and Evening Grosbeak call types from across their range. Stay tuned for more.You can see the birds identified by the donated Foothills Birds Haikubox here, or create a free Haikubox account to see the birds being identified by thousands of Haikuboxes through their website (listen.haikubox.com), or download the Haikubox smartphone app. Haikubox Story
Growing up in Syracuse, NY, the Haikubox founder, David Mann, spent hours in nearby Sapsucker Woods at Cornell. He later studied biology at Cornell and earned a PhD from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution focused on bioacoustics. After speaking with his colleague, Holger Klinck, PhD, about a new neural net his team developed at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, David launched Haikubox to bring this new technology and automatic bird identification tool to the general public.
Community science is at the heart of Haikubox, with each box serving as a bioacoustic data collecting node in a larger network. Through education and lifelong learning, Haikubox seeks to improve environmental literacy and to promote conservation and stewardship of the natural world.
We also hope to analyze Red Crossbill and Evening Grosbeak call types from across their range using archived Haikubox recordings. Stay tuned for more.