I have a situation with a couple of hundred chimney swifts. I want to set-up cameras to differentiate between individual swifts.
replyAny advice on how to go about this.
My current plan is to put multiple cameras at the mouth of the chimney opening which is about 42"x42"(1mx1m).
Does this sound realistic to anyone with experience?
There's a growing literature on individual animal identification from sound!
replyHere's one example: https://github.com/sammlapp/ovenbird-individual-recognition
My impression is that the hardest part is knowing whether or not you're actually doing a good job. For vocal learners (like the ovenbird example linked above), it seems to be pretty easy using embeddings from existing models (like perch or birdnet). For non-learning species (possibly including your swifts), you can use timbre clues to differentiate many individuals, but may not be able to really nail down individual identity.
Have you found a way to identify frogs? I also have a BirdNET (the older -PI, not -Go) setup, but haven't seen a way to get anything other than birds identified.
replyThe full Perch V2 model at https://huggingface.co/tphakala/Perch-v2 can do some frogs and cicadas and such, but it is not very good. It will certainly detect it, whether the species will be right is a whole other question.
replyThe many frogs around my house are identified as black-crowned night heron. I was very excited for a while since that bird is not common where I live.
replyOHHHH! That explains it. Had not figured out why that false detection kept coming up.
replyThe sound that a frog makes is 'kwak' in Dutch. And that is also the name of this bird which makes a similar sound. Onomatopoeia for the frog predator.
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