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Sibling projects

Wells Riley edited this page Sep 27, 2026 · 6 revisions

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.

Other bird frames and displays

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

BirdNET software

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

BirdNET hardware

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.

Other backyard bird projects

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

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