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Sibling projects
Wells Riley edited this page Sep 27, 2026
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Featherframe stands on a lot of other people's work, and it has good company. Here are projects worth a look.
To suggest a project, open an issue with a link and a sentence about it. Your own projects are welcome.
| Project | What it is | Open source |
|---|---|---|
| inky-bird-frame | A color e-paper field journal for Pimoroni Inky screens. Pulls from BirdNET, BirdWeather, eBird, iNaturalist, and Bird Buddy. | Yes |
| AvianVisitors | A live collage of the birds at your window, from your own mic or a BirdWeather station, with an optional frame to build. | Yes |
| HABirdDashboard | A Home Assistant card showing BirdNET-Go detections as a collage, sized by how often each species calls. | Yes |
| fugleramme | A Raspberry Pi frame that shows the species BirdNET-Go hears as 1800s illustrations, on a color e-paper panel, a TV, or any screen. | Yes |
| BirdNetDisplay | A small desk display for BirdNET-Pi on an ESP32 "Cheap Yellow Display". | Yes |
| Project | What it is | Open source |
|---|---|---|
| BirdNET-Analyzer | BirdNET itself, from Cornell and TU Chemnitz. See About BirdNET. | Yes |
| BirdNET-Pi | A 24/7 listening station on a Raspberry Pi. The maintained fork of the original. | Yes |
| BirdNET-Go | A listening station written in Go, for birds and bats. Has its own Home Assistant integration. | Yes |
| BirdNET-Pi2Go | Moves your BirdNET-Pi history to BirdNET-Go. | Yes |
| birdnetlib | Use BirdNET from Python. | Yes |
| BirdWeather | A live world map of BirdNET stations. Featherframe can read any public station on it. | No |
| Project | What it is | Open source |
|---|---|---|
| BirdWeather PUC | A weatherproof, ready-made BirdNET station. | No |
| Haikubox | A backyard listening box, built with the Cornell BirdNET team. | No |
| AudioMoth | A tiny, cheap acoustic recorder used in field research. Also sold as a USB mic. | Yes |
More on building a station: BirdNET hardware.
| Project | What it is | Open source |
|---|---|---|
| YetAnother-WhosAtMyFeeder | Identifies birds on your feeder camera through Frigate. Can match them up with BirdNET-Go. A fork of WhosAtMyFeeder. | Yes |
| WAMF | Wildlife monitoring on Frigate, MQTT, and AI species ID. | Yes |
| Bird Buddy | A smart feeder with a camera. Community Home Assistant integration. | No |
| Merlin Bird ID | Cornell's free app. Identifies birds by sound, photo, or a few questions. | No |
| eBird | Log what you see. The world's largest bird-sighting database. | No |
| Project FeederWatch | Count the birds at your feeder in winter, for science. | No |
| BirdCast | Live bird migration maps and forecasts from weather radar. | No |
All public domain.
- Audubon.org: Birds of America: every plate, with Audubon's own text.
- University of Pittsburgh: high-resolution scans of all 435 plates.
- Biodiversity Heritage Library: the smaller octavo edition, page by page.
- Biodiversity Heritage Library: the Smithsonian's scans of Gould's books, where Featherframe's Gould illustrations come from.
- wr/historical-bird-plates: Featherframe's species identifications for every plate, and the cleaned Gould plates, as open data (CC0).
- nathanbuchar/audubon-bird-plates: all 435 as image files. Featherframe's Audubon illustrations come from here.
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- Settings
- Add a frame
- Detection sources
- Other screens
- Species and illustrations
- AI illustrations
- How AI illustrations are made
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- Quickstart
- Kits and screens
- BirdNET hardware
- Build the frame
- Status LED
- Battery
- Flash the frame
- Install the server
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