FiRN Now Using Haikubox for Sound ID
The Finch Research Network is collaborating with Foothills Birds and Haikubox Sound ID…..and with the kind donation from Haikubox we will have a page dedicated to this collaboration showing what species are being heard at the Foothill Location.
Haikubox is the smart bird song identification device that brings you real-time alerts, bird call sound recordings, and loads of information about your birds. Identify bird calls by sound, listen to and download your bird recordings, track activity, and share your birds with family and friends using the Haikubox app.
Links here for what can be heard at the feeder cam site using the Haikubox:
https://birds.haikubox.com/listen/8CBFEA017198
https://listen.haikubox.com/#/haikubox
The Finch Research Network (FiRN) has been collaborating with Foothills Birds the past couple years with a Feedercam near Calgary, Alberta. It often has lots of Evening Grosbeaks, Pine Grosbeaks, and/or Pine Siskins and Redpolls, among other species.
Foothills Birds is located in the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, east of Kananskis Country and southwest of Calgary, Alberta, close to Brown-Lowery Provincial Park. There place has also become a Certified Wildlife Friendly Habitat by the Canadian Wildlife Federation.
Haikubox Story:
David Mann, Haikubox founder, was a young birder who 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.
In this photo, nine-year old David had his binoculars ready for something more interesting than Canada Geese.
The Science
When David and long-time colleague Holger Klinck, PhD, Director of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, realized they shared a common interest and the technical skills to develop an automatic birdsong identification tool, Haikubox was hatched.
Core Values