Check Out this Cool App that Will Identify Birdsong Instantly!

Krista Bennett
3 min readJul 5, 2024

In case you ever wondered.

Photo by Hans Veth on Unsplash

“Mom, I hear a kitten in the field!” my son yelled as he ran across the yard and into the house grabbing me by the hand.

“Mom! It’s a kitten!!” He couldn’t contain his excitement.

We found our old gentleman, Randall, on our property 15 years ago and he has been a wonerful kitty.

Phot of Author’s Cat Randall, 16 years old

It’s a thing about living on a farm with barns. People really do drop off litters of kittens in the fields thinking they’ll find shelter in our barns.

They don’t last long with all the Eagles, Barn Owls, and Hawks around. Not to mention coyotes.

So the thought of finding another one, made this cat lover happy, I must admit.

So we went looking for the whiner and couldn’t find it anywhere! It sounded like it was out in the corn, then it sounded like it was out in the field.

Hold on a minute.

I went and grabbed my phone and pulled up the BirdNET Bird Sound Identification App.

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