Identify birds by their song
Point your phone at a singing bird, or upload a recording you made earlier. BirdAmp tells you which of more than 6,000 species you just heard — then pulls that one bird forward in the recording so you can hear it over everything else.
How it works
Record or upload
Hit record when you hear something, or bring audio you already have — a voice memo, a video, a file from a dedicated recorder. Ten to thirty seconds is plenty.
Neural Boost does the listening
The clip is broken into short windows and passed through a neural network trained on a very large library of bird vocalisations. Boosting isolates a single bird from the wash of everything else, so a distant song competing with wind and traffic still has a chance.
Read the result
You get a ranked list of species, each marked High, Medium or Low confidence, with the moment in the clip where it was heard so you can listen back and judge for yourself.
Boost the bird you picked
Choose a species from the list and the separator runs again on that bird alone. You get two faders — one for the bird, one for everything else — so you can bring a call forward out of the wind and traffic, then play it back or export the clip.
Hear what boosting does
Three ordinary field recordings, six seconds each. Every one is the same moment twice: once as it came off the microphone, and once with the separator asked for a single species and everything else turned down. The two clips in each pair are level-matched, so what you are hearing is the separation and not a volume change.
Common Blackbird
Turdus merula
A blackbird singing from a tall tree in a Warsaw park, with a Hooded Crow and the city behind it. Boosting pushes the crow and the traffic back and lets the fluting through.
It runs on your device
The model runs on your phone, not on a server somewhere. Your recordings are not uploaded for identification, which means the app works with no signal — down a valley, deep in a wood, halfway up a hill — and your audio stays yours.
Over 6,000 species
BirdAmp recognises more than 6,000 species worldwide, and can narrow the field using where you are and the time of year. A bird that has never been recorded within a thousand miles of you is unlikely to be the answer, and telling the app roughly where you are makes the shortlist markedly better.
Species names follow your region, so a Kingfisher stays a Kingfisher here rather than becoming a Common Kingfisher, and a Sparrowhawk stays a Sparrowhawk.
Common questions
Does it work without an internet connection?
Yes. Identification happens on your device, so once the app is installed you can use it anywhere.
Is my audio uploaded anywhere?
Not for identification. The recording is analysed locally and stays on your device unless you choose to share it.
How accurate is it?
A clean, close recording of a bird singing on its own is usually identified correctly. A distant bird in wind, or several birds at once, is much harder — which is why every result carries a confidence level rather than a bare answer.