GoKawiilAvian Visitors
I was initally planning on leaving this as a ‘true’ personal project of sorts. I love a good project writeup of course, but frankly I thought this was too quick an afternoon project to warrant any more documentation than a tweet. Twitter thought otherwise …
i mounted a tiny microphone on my apartment balcony to listen for any birds passing by and built a site to collage them as they're heard pic.twitter.com/85KrLRL5tu — Teddy (@WarnerTeddy) May 28, 2026 i mounted a tiny microphone on my apartment balcony to listen for any birds passing by and built a site to collage them as they're heard pic.twitter.com/85KrLRL5tu — Teddy (@WarnerTeddy) May 28, 2026
… so I’ve thrown together this short writeup for any of you who want to monitor any avian visitors that may be passing by your own place. It’s short and sweet for now in an attempt to get something out quickly, but this work is part of a longer chain of bird-tangent projects i’ll write something up about soon!
Apartment Birds¶
Avian Visitors is a fork of BirdNET-Pi with a kachō-e collage overlay on top of it. BirdNET-Pi handles the audio capture and the species identification, running Cornell’s BirdNET acoustic classifier against whatever a USB mic on the Pi picks up.
See it running at bird.onethreenine.net:
Building a bird tracking station of your own is easy enough. The full project repo is at github.com/Twarner491/AvianVisitors. Here’s all you need:
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