Bird Buddy’s new AI update lets you name your backyard’s frequent flyers
The Bird Buddy smart bird feeder is getting an AI-powered update allowing users to name specific birds who frequently visit. | Image: Bird Buddy
The Bird Buddy smart bird feeder is getting a collection of new features as part of a recently announced Nature Intelligence update. The feeder’s ability to identify the species of a visiting bird is being expanded, and users will now get notifications when individual birds stop by.
The company describes the Bird Buddy’s new Name That Bird feature as being a noninvasive form of bird tagging — a practice that usually keeps tabs on the movements of birds using trackers or tags physically attached to their legs. The Bird Buddy instead relies on images captured by the smart feeder’s camera and AI image recognition that can spot the differences between individual birds.
“The detail made available by the 5MP high-resolution Bird Buddy sensor…