Tag: machine learning

June 29, 2022

Using sound, bird ID app opens a door for citizen scientists

Biologists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology knew their BirdNET app was popular. Since they rolled it out, over 2.2 million people have used it to identify birds by their...

March 10, 2022

Tourist photos help wildlife conservation

If you’re going on a vacation, you may be able to help researchers collect important information about endangered species. Researchers have trained computers to search social media and find photos...

February 24, 2022

Artificial Intelligence helps predict bird declines worldwide

For many bird species, scientists don’t have much information to figure out whether their populations are rising, falling or staying about the same. To get a better sense, researchers turned...

September 3, 2020

The September/October issue of The Wildlife Professional

The Wildlife Professional is an exclusive benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published six times annually, the magazine presents timely research news and analysis of trends in the wildlife profession....

July 30, 2020

Soundscapes reveal habitat quality

By setting out recorders in the middle of ecosystems, researchers have developed unique audio “fingerprints” representing the whole system to tell them whether habitat is high or low quality. “Traditional...