You don't need to care about birds for this to get you. I barely did.
Picture this: you're walking somewhere and something starts singing and it's genuinely one of the most beautiful sounds you've ever heard and you have absolutely no idea what it is. You slow down for a second. Then you keep walking because what are you going to do about it.
That used to eat at me every single time.
I found Merlin one year ago, Cornell University's bird recognition app, and it was already kind of magic. Pull it out, hold it up, get the answer. Except pulling out your phone means you're not outside anymore. You're just a person standing in a park holding a rectangle.
So I built Birdie. Same science, BirdNET is Cornell's open ML model, same research as Merlin. But it lives on your glasses now.
You hold still. It listens. When it's confident it puts the name, scientific name and a field guide image on your HUD, then disappears. You never opened anything. You never looked down. You just know.
The rare bird thing especially. The ones passing through your region twice a year that you'll never actually see. You hear it in the canopy, invisible, and your glasses name it like it's nothing. That one gets me every time.
Or yeah, someone's hiking with you and you just casually say the name of the bird singing above you. Works too. Very effective lol
Open source on GitHub like everything else I've built for Even Hub. Loads more features coming, genuinely want to know what people think.
https://hub.evenrealities.com/landing?package_id=com.plungarini.birdie