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How to flag videos for review, label them as cool, or add an arbitrary label. And how to search for those videos.

The new version of the Cacophony portal is now live and is the default.

A description of how to export bird monitoring data from the Cacophony Portal and create charts in excel.

Mask off a portion of the field of view of the thermal camera, so that movement in the masked off region won’t trigger a recording. This is useful if you have some areas that have movement that you’re not interested in. For example, water, sky, or foliage.

Hamilton City Council is using DOC AI Cams to save monitoring costs and significantly improve monitoring. The information is allowing them to take actions that will help protect endangered species.

This is an analysis of how birdlife is changing in Akaroa. It was created by re-processing historic bird recordings now that many more birds can be automatically recognised. Tui and bellbirds have increased significantly, while blackbirds and morepork have decreased.

We have just released our latest bird recognition model that greatly expands the number of birds that we recognise to over 60. This uses data from DOC and eBird.

New tags are now available for horse, camel, donkey, antechinus, pygmy possum, feathertail glider, sugar glider, quoll, flying fox, and vole. Surprisingly Bynyip and drop bear are also available.

Lots of software improvements: Improved bird classification, Overlay photos on by default, stopped emails working in audio only mode, tracking improvements for thermal videos, mobile UI improvements, controls to change the size of an audio track, password remembering and reset on Sidekick, 5 min audio recording button and upload notifications.

Audio recordings can now be reviewed on the new version of the Cacophony Portal. The location photo feature has been fixed and now works on this new version, with an transparency slider that lets you see the photo and the thermal video at the same time. This makes it easier to interpret the thermal videos.

We have deployed a new algorithm that limits the number of tracks in a video to 10. This is to make your tagging experience easier.