Screenshot of BirdNET-Pi home page with four species detected today

You probably can run BirdNET-Pi on a Pi Zero, but it will work a lot better on a Pi Model 4B.

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Sepia photograph of a young man looking directly into the camera wearing a dark, double-breasted suit, with a square watch on his wrist, a ring on his finger and a white handketchief in his breast pocket

My father

Our little terrace is not exactly a wildlife haven, though some birds do occasionally pop in to investigate, most notably some lovely hooded crows. Nevertheless, I quite liked the idea of a 24/7 monitor that would tell me what birds are around and that I could maybe take to the nearby park with me. So the seed of a BirdNET-Pi found fertile ground when I read a fine, detailed write-up that explained exactly how to Set up BirdNET-Pi on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W.

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There was considerable excitement out on the terrace a couple of days ago, because The Squeeze had noticed two very definite flower spikes emerging from a plant that has mostly just sat there for the past couple of years. At first glance I thought it might possibly be Chincherinchee (Ornithogalum t...

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Lots of people are far more diligent than I am about recording, critiquing, and sharing the various things they read, watched, litened to etc. over the previous year. I thank them for their service and enjoy reading their posts and, sometimes, following some of their recommendations.

Having just u...

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