2040 Newsletter

Kia ora,

We are off to Field Days later this week. We will be in the Predator Free 2050 booth (Rm 186). Call in and say hi if you're going to be there. We will have our trap, bird monitor, thermal camera and hazing there for any of you that are interested.

This newsletter covers updates across our products

Banks Peninsula bird song analysis
New functionality for our bird monitors and thermal cameras, including the ability to set up your own alerts.
A story of some success at protecting Mamaku Point with our cameras and trap.

Kā mihi nui,

Shaun Ryan

2040 Limited.

Thermal camera and bird monitor updates

Alerts and bulk delete

We've added the ability to you to create near real-time email alerts. This works with both the thermal camera and the bird monitor. This lets see things such as this possum getting around a predator proof fence at Horseshoe Bay in Stewart Island/Rakiura or a wallaby crossing the Aviemore Dam (both in the last week). The alert functionality also works with our Bird Monitor, so you can get alerts if Morepork are detected and find recordings like this one in Lottery Bush near Waiau.

We are working on recognising more than just morepork. We have tagged over 1000 kiwi calls and are working on adding kiwi to our recognition model soon. What birds would you like us to add next? Let us know.

We recently published an analysis of the Banks Peninsula bird song. Although this can only look at Morepork and overall birdsong via the Cacophony Index, as we add the ability to recognise other birds, we will be able to retrospectively run that analysis over these historical recordings. This underlines the usefulness of making the recordings sooner rather than later.

We've also added the ability to bulk delete either thermal camera or bird monitor recordings. This simple functionality is a lot better than having to delete one recording at a time.

We continue to update our machine vision models. A new model released this week performs 5% better on our test set.

We are still having a camera sale.

Camera Sale

Morepork at Lottery Bush

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Mamaku Point Case Study

Thermal cameras and trap: saving birds and saving time.

Mamaku Point is a predator free reserve on Stewart Island. We've just published a case study describing how Thermal Cameras and our High Interaction Rate Trap are saving birds and saving time hunting intruders. They have a thermal camera on each end of their predator proof fence and a trap at one end that has caught a couple of cats in the last few weeks.

The image below is of a Fairy Prion after a cat has dealt to it. Luckily this is not an endangered species. They do have many rare birds in this reserve and it is often this type of scene that lets them know a predator has got around the fence.

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2040 Ltd is a social enterprise whose mission is to eradicate predators from NZ by manufacturing and selling open source technology developed by The Cacophony Project.

Mamaku Point and Banks Peninsula Case Studies