tphakala/birdnet-go

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1592 stars · 152 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

BirdNET-Go is a self-hosted, 24/7 realtime soundscape analyser that classifies birds, bats, and other wildlife using local AI models like BirdNET, Perch, and BattyBirdNET. It ingests soundcard or network audio streams, runs multi-model inference on hardware as small as a Raspberry Pi, and presents detections, spectrograms, and heatmaps in a web UI with alerting to many notification services.

Use cases

• identify bird species from realtime audio on a raspberry pi
• monitor bats and wildlife sounds 24/7 in my backyard
• send bird detection alerts to discord or home assistant
• run multiple bioacoustic AI models in parallel on audio streams
• self-host a bird song classifier with a web dashboard
• stream live spectrograms and detection heatmaps in the browser
• integrate bird detections with mqtt and home assistant discovery

When to choose

• you want continuous, local wildlife sound monitoring on low-power hardware like a raspberry pi
• you need multi-model classification (birds, bats) with cross-model confidence boosting
• you want rich integrations: Discord, Slack, Telegram, MQTT, Home Assistant, webhooks, BirdWeather
• you prefer self-hosted inference without sending audio to the cloud

When to avoid

• you need a permissively licensed tool for commercial use - the license is CC-BY-NC-SA (non-commercial)
• you only need offline batch analysis of pre-recorded files rather than realtime monitoring
• you need Windows/macOS as first-class supported platforms - it is primarily Linux/Raspberry Pi oriented

Facets

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audio-processing machine-learning llm-inference monitoring webhook self-hosted artificial-intelligence self-hosted iot analytics windows self-hosted go birdnet bioacoustics wildlife-monitoring raspberry-pi soundscape-analysis bird-detection bat-detection realtime-audio home-assistant pwa audio linux macos docker

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