Build Your BirdNET-Cloud Station
Choose the station that matches your interests and start listening to the wildlife around you. Whether you’re interested in identifying the birds visiting your feeder, monitoring bats after sunset, tracking nocturnal bird migration, or combining multiple technologies into a single station, BirdNET-Cloud gives you the flexibility to build the system that’s right for you.
Bird Station
Love using the Merlin Bird ID app to identify birds by sound? A BirdNET-Cloud Bird Station brings that same sense of discovery to your home, school, park, or nature center, but instead of listening only when you open an app, it listens continuously, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
System Requirements
- Raspberry Pi 3B+, Pi 4, or Pi 5
- 32Gb SD Card
- USB Microphone like a Lapel Mic
- Pi Power Supply
- Waterproof Case
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Bat Station
Just as the BirdNET-Cloud Bird Station lets you discover the birds visiting your yard, a Bat Station reveals the fascinating world that comes alive after sunset. Every bat detection is recorded and uploaded to your BirdNET-Cloud dashboard, complete with the date, time, species identification, audio recording, and ultrasonic spectrogram. By morning, you’ll have a detailed record of the bats that were active while you were sleeping.
System Requirements
- Raspberry Pi 4 or Pi 5
- 32Gb SD Card
- AudioMoth UBS Microphone
- Pi Power Supply
- Waterproof Cases
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Hybrid Station
Why choose between monitoring birds and bats when one station can do both? The BirdNET-Cloud Hybrid Station provides continuous, around-the-clock wildlife monitoring by listening for birds during the day and automatically switching to ultrasonic bat monitoring after sunset. During daylight hours, the station uses the BirdNET artificial intelligence model to identify bird songs and calls around your property. As evening arrives, BirdNET-Cloud transitions into bat-monitoring mode, using the AudioMoth USB Microphone to capture ultrasonic echolocation calls.
System Requirements
- Raspberry Pi 4 or Pi 5
- 32Gb SD Card
- USB Microphone like a Lapel Mic
- AudioMoth USB Microphone
- Pi Power Supply
- Waterproof Cases
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Nighthawk Station
Every spring and fall, millions of birds migrate under the cover of darkness, passing high overhead while most of us are asleep and completely unaware of the incredible journey taking place above us. The BirdNET-Cloud Nighthawk Station opens a window into this hidden migration by listening for the short flight calls that many birds make as they travel through the night.
System Requirements
- Raspberry Pi 5
- 32Gb SD Card
- NFC Microphone
- Power Supply
- Waterproof Case
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