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Testing the Accuracy of a birdNET, Automatic bird song Classifier

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In recent years, automated bird song classification programs have been becoming more common among researchers as a way to study, track, and monitor birds. In our research, we tested the accuracy of one such program called BirdNET. We tested 225 recordings by uploading them to BirdNET and manually classifying them to see how often BirdNET was accurate. The overall accuracy of BirdNET was 91.5%, with this number increasing when it came to bird songs that BirdNET was more familiar with, and dropping when it came to other bird songs that BirdNET was unfamiliar with. This paper will explore why such a program is needed, how it can be helpful to biologists, researchers, and anyone else interested in or looking to learn more about bird songs. This study also includes the methods used to test BirdNET, discussion about how automated bird song recognition programs can be improved, limitations when it comes to automated bird song recognition software, and other relevant studies about acoustic monitoring and automatic bird recognition programs.

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