News

  • Bird monitors now identify birds

    Our bird recognition algorithm now identifies generic bird song. This should help you when you're tagging birds and will help us make a better Cacophony Index.
  • Fieldays with Predator Free 2050

    A summary of the companies exhibiting on the PF2050 stand at Fieldays 2022: NZ Autotraps, Envico, Trap.NZ, Encounter Solutions, eTrapper, Boffa Miskell, and of course The Cacophony Project.
  • Try our new visits dashboard

    Try our new dashboard that focuses on visits. We'd love your feedback.
  • A poem about predator Free NZ

    Find out who wrote this poem about Predator Free NZ and who it is relevant to our mission.
  • Mamaku Point success with trap and cameras

    Mamaku Point in Rakiura, Stewart Island is using thermal cameras and a high interaction rate trap to protect the rare birds on this reserve from predators that make it past the fence.
  • Bulk delete

    You can now delete recordings in bulk. Up to now you could only delete recordings individually. This was painful if you wanted to delete lots of recordings. Now it is easy.
  • Bird song analysis on Banks Peninsula

    An analysis of 38,000 bird recordings taken across Banks Peninsula, showing the relative abundance of birds and morepork.
  • Create email alerts - near real time.

    You can now create your own email alerts when specific animals are detected. Up until now you had to ask us to set this up for you. A new interface...
  • Hierarchical tags - you can now tag stoats, rats, etc!

    You can now tag at a finer level of granularity. For example, rather than tagging a track as a mustelid you have the option of tagging it as a stoat, weasel or ferret
  • Change your display name on Cacophony browse

    You can now change your display name and are required to use your email address to log onto Cacophony Portal and Sidekick. When adding to users to a group you must now use their email address.
  • Bird monitor recordings now variable length

    You can now change the length of your bird monitor recordings.
  • Synchronising recordings across bird monitors

    We have released a new version (1.10.3) of the Cacophony Bird Monitor Android app. This version allows you to synchronise recordings across bird mo...