Identify bird by photo or sound (song and call)
Picture Bird: Identify Birds by Photo or Sound
By Irfan Rosli
News editor
- Bird ID from a photo taken with the camera or uploaded
- Up to 1,000+ species matched by photo or sound
- Recording a bird's song or call to find its name
- Species details on looks, sound, habitat, range and diet
- Articles on bird ID, attracting birds and birding tips
- Saved sightings collection and shareable bird cards
What Picture Bird is for
Picture Bird is a bird identifier for Android, listed under Books & Reference and published by Next Vision Limited. Its main job is to put a name to a bird you have seen or heard. It also works as a reference, since each identified bird comes with written details about it.
The listing says the app can identify up to 1,000+ species. It works from two kinds of input: a picture or a recording of the bird's song or call. People who want to name a bird on a walk, in the garden or from a call they cannot see the source of are the obvious audience.
Identifying a bird from a photo
You can take a photo inside the app or upload one that already exists on your phone. The app compares the image against a database that the listing describes as millions of photos, then returns its closest match.
The result is a species name, which you can open for more detail. The listing describes the matching as machine deep learning applied to pictures, so the photo is the input and the species match is the output.
Naming a bird from its song or call
If you hear a bird but cannot find it, you can record its song or call instead of taking a picture. The recording is compared against a sound database that the listing describes as millions of recordings. This is the feature that covers birds you can hear but not see.
Photo and sound identification sit in the same results view, so a bird you photographed and a bird you recorded both end up as species pages.
Reading species profiles and bird articles
Each identified species has a profile with its appearance, its song or call, the habitat it lives in, its distribution and its feeding habits. The profile is the reference part of the app, and it is what you read after the name comes back.
Beyond the profiles, the app includes articles on bird identification, tips for attracting birds to a garden, general birding hints and bird sightings. These are reading material rather than tools, and the listing gives no further detail on how they are organised.
Saving sightings and sharing bird cards
The in-app collection stores the birds you have identified as observations, so you can review and organise your own record over time. It is the only place the listing describes for keeping results.
The app also produces bird cards that you can send to friends. The listing presents these as a way to share a find, and it does not say what a card contains beyond the bird it represents.
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