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If you like watching birds, and you would like to meet the guests up close that come to your bird feeder, then the Birdbuddy is definitely the smart bird feeder for you!
Winner of the Innovation Award, in the Artificial Intelligence category, at the SXSW™ Conference, held in Austin, TX, March 10 - 19, 2023, the Birdbuddy, with app, is a smart birdfeeder. The Birdbuddy is smart because the feeder not only takes beautiful, high-resolution, pictures and videos of your bird guests, the Birdbuddy is also designed to identify approximately 1000 species that are likely to drop in and feed. Vistor identification that comes with bonus information about each species. The Birdbuddy also sends you notifications when there is a guest feeding, and when the feeder sensor has detected that the bird seed level is low. The Birdbuddy even comes with an optional solar roof accessory for powering the camera, which is otherwise powered via battery or USB cable.
Below, one of the owner-uploaded YouTube videos of first and second Birdbuddy visitors.
The Birdbuddy app collects data on all Birdbuddy guests. Thus, for example, on March 12, 2023, the Birdbuddy statistics had already recorded a sum total of 42,590,015 photos taken, 502 spotted species and 52,605 active feeders. Bird guest information, which is collected in a database of bird migrations and populations, and then forwarded to experts to help them better understand and protect birds. The data is also visually processed on maps showing sightings in North America, in real-time, for all species combined, or per species, such as for the Northern Cardinal, or the Tufted Titmouse.
Masterminded by a bird-loving group of developers and engineers, hailing from Slovenia, the Birdbuddy was kickstarted at Kickstarter, where it is available for pre-order, as well as on the Birdbuddy website.
References
Kickstarter: Birdbuddy – A smart bird feeder.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mybirdbuddy/bird-buddy-a-smart-bird-feeder
MyBirdbuddy
SXSW 2023 Innovation Award Winners
https://www.sxsw.com/apply-to-participate/innovation-awards/#finalists
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