News

  • Camera updates: new lens, AI on camera, and more.

    by Shaun Ryan
    I was recently asked what was new with the camera. As I looked at the work we had done recently, I thought it was worth sharing. New lens design ...
    Posted in Cacophony Portal, Sidekick, Software updates, Thermal Camera

  • You can now see your Cacophony Index

    by Shaun Ryan
    As promised, the fantastic engineers at The Cacophony Project have released the first version of the Cacophony Index and you can now have a look at...
    Posted in Bird Monitor, Cacophony Portal, Software updates

  • Software updates - November 2019

    by Shaun Ryan
    The Cacophony team now have a weekly release cycle where new software is released to a test environment and tested software is released to producti...
    Posted in Bird Monitor, Cacophony Portal, Software updates, Thermal Camera

  • Bird monitors can use battery packs now

    by Shaun Ryan
    The power bank enabler is now available for sale, allow you to use power banks with your bird monitor, and a smaller, lower cost solar option.
    Posted in Bird Monitor

  • Automatic bird detection is coming

    by Shaun Ryan
    We have a new machine learning engineer working on a Cacophony Index, automatic speech detection and automatic bird classification
    Posted in Bird Monitor, Software updates

  • Updated camera manual

    by Shaun Ryan
    We have just updated the manual for the thermal camera. This includes changes for: The new waterproof plug Battery usage, safety and transport Sim...

  • Camera batteries now available

    by Shaun Ryan
    We have received our first shipment of batteries for our Thermal Cameras, tested them and they are now available for sale. The battery will last ap...
    Posted in Thermal Camera

  • The Cacophony Project’s presentation at Pestival 2019

    by Shaun Ryan
    Last weekend we attended Auckland City Council’s Pestival. It was a great opportunity to find out about the initiatives around Tāmaki Makaurau and...

  • Record your five-minute bird counts

    by Shaun Ryan
    5 minute bird counts are a popular way of monitoring forest birds. One of the problems with these is that they are sensitive to the hearing abiliti...
    Posted in Bird Monitor, Software updates

  • New search and video viewing interface and data export

    by Shaun Ryan
    This week we have released a new version of our search interface, tidied up our page for viewing videos, fixed a few errors and created an easy way...
    Posted in Bird Monitor, Cacophony Portal, Software updates, Thermal Camera

  • Longer battery life and cheaper solar for Bird Monitors coming

    by Shaun Ryan
    The intention of this article is to give you a little bit of insight into what's coming up for the Bird Monitor and into our development process. C...
    Posted in Bird Monitor

  • First morepork automatically identified

    by Shaun Ryan
    Tim Hunt is a lecturer at the Centre for Information Technology at Wintec.  Tim has done a lot of work on the software for the Bird Monitor and rec...
    Posted in Bird Monitor