Launch BirdOMatic. Click here (preferably on a computer – it’s pretty impossible to navigate on a phone).
Show me how it works! Check out Lauren Wick’s “How-To” videos here, and check out the “Tabs” links in the menu for her detailed descriptions.
Watch Mike’s Gee-Whiz intro video. Click here..
Use our code. Click here
Contact Mike (for copies of the data, questions, etc.). Click here
All about…
BirdOMatic is the latest project in our Ears In the Driftless bioacoustic monitoring effort. It arrived in several parts, shown from left to right in this diagram.
Data capture: has grown from 3 to 6 bioacoustic recorders since we started in 2020. Click here for a map and info about locations we’re capturing.
Bird ID System: BirdNET-Analyzer is a terrific tool that we think of as “Merlin looking through tons of bioacoustic data files.” Click here to visit their page on GitHub for lots more info.
Shell-scripts: have arrived over the course of the project. These are aimed at managing and processing the audio files that come in from the recorders. These are available on our project site on GitHub.
R Scripts: This is the view you see when you come in the front door of BirdOMatic. This is powered by several scripts written in R by Lauren Wick. These are also available on our project site on GitHub. Go to https://www.birdomatic.com to try out the BirdOMatic for yourself.
The Data: we built this BirdOMatic gizmo mostly for me, so’s I could get my arms around all that data. The audio data has some holes in it, especially in the early years as I wrestled with keeping the recorders supplied with batteries and SD cards. There are many fewer gaps in the data since early 2024 when solar powered backup batteries were added to the recorders
Please contact me if you would like a copy of the data for your own analysis — I can provide a copy the FST file that is driving Lauren’s UI (along with pointers on how to import it).
And we’re also keen to help people who would like to use this as an example design for their own analysis workflow.