OT: Birdsong ID

Sounds like a blue tit to me.

Could be but louder than I'd heard them normally. Is there some kind of app like Shazam for birds? Brian

blackbird?

I'm pretty sure now that it's not a blue tit. My birdwatcher son can't identify it, and doesn't think that it's a British bird - possibly American he says.

Accent ?

That was my initial suspicion (but I'm no bird expert!)

I've got an app on my Android tablet which is quite good. Might be BirdNet - but could be one of the others. Testing it, I found most suggestions totally believable. Less good on birds that don't so much sing as squawk or screech.

(Sorry - tablet is not with me.)

I also find PlantNet quite good - for plants, not birds.

Could it be a skylark?

Flora Incognita (Free Android app). You take a picture of the flower, a leaf and the whole plant and it has a pretty good stab at identification.

One of the warblers perhaps? Its too loud for blue tit, though I don't know how its been recorded. Brian

Bit fast for a Blackbird I'd have thought, and they do tend to vary their song and only repeat after quite a long time. You have the added issue of the song being different in the breeding season and at other times for many birds. On Kate Bush' Arial you get many birds near the beginning and although I can here pigeons and blackbirds, one is very similar to that one, so maybe its a good old stock recording used by anyone wanting birds on their records! Brian

Do you have noisy plants where you live then? Brian

Its not a nott though.

Brian

Skylarks are much more "bubbly" and don't pause.

Blackbird has also been mentioned, they tend to be more melodious for longer in each burst, the melody of each burst will only be similar to previous ones.

Certainly has the sounds that Blue T*ts use and has the short repetative style.

The album was recorded in Colorado and Los Angeles in 1977, so a better app would be BirdGenie, which identifies North American birds.

et - but could be one of the others. Testing it, I found most suggestions t otally believable. Less good on birds that don't so much sing as squawk or screech.

Not convinced. BirdNet covers, well, read their own words:

"What is BirdNET?

How can computers learn to recognize birds from sounds? The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Chemnitz University of Technology are trying to find an answer to this question. Our research is mainly focused on the detection a nd classification of avian sounds using machine learning ? we want to assist experts and citizen scientist in their work of monitoring and pro tecting our birds.

This page features some of our public demonstrations, including a live stre am demo, a demo for the analysis of audio recordings, an Android app and it s visualization of submissions. All demos are based on an artificial neural network we call BirdNET. We are constantly improving the features and perf ormance of our demos ? please make sure to check back with us regul arly.

We are currently featuring 984 of the most common species of North America and Europe. We will add more species and more regions in the near future. C lick here for the list of supported species."

When I was looking for an app, the fact that BirdGenie has a cost and does not claim to cover the UK/Europe rather put me off (for my purposes).

I really wanted an app that works on both IOS and Android. Largely because I use an iPhone and an Android tablet and wanted to be able to use pretty much the same thing on both - just to make it easy for me.

Managed to avoid the triffid - so far:

'They have three small, bare sticks which grow straight up beside the stem. These "clatter sticks" create a rapping noise which is considered to be some form of communication.'