A Card-Triggered Audio Player for [Learning] the Birds

Fin & Feather Corner: Fishing is for the birds!

One of the most valuable clues an angler can find on the water is not a slick, a mud boil, or even a tailing fish — it's bird activity. Birds and fish have a relationship that has played out over…

Bird lovers invited to count feathered visitors at McKay Gardens | Brimbank & North West

Bird lovers and community members are being invited to take part in a bird count at McKay Gardens in Sunshine next month. Friends of the McKay Gardens will host the first session of its bird count from 8.30am to 9.30am on Saturday 5 September at 120 Anderson Road, Sunshine. The initiative aims to build a […] The post Bird lovers invited to count feathered visitors at McKay Gardens appeared first on Brimbank & North West

A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds

Birduino is Hannah Robertson’s card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds. It consists of a deck of bird cards, an audio player, and a card reader. Tapping a card triggers playback of one of the vocalizations associated with that bird. You can trigger a bird-of-choice to learn its calls, or pick a random card and keep it hidden as you try to guess the bird from its call alone. Programming the NFC tags on the bird cards to match them to…