[$] Saving birds with technology

Two members of the Cacophony
Project came to linux.conf.au
2019 to give an overview of what the project is doing to increase the
amount of
bird life in New Zealand. The idea is to use computer vision and machine
learning to identify and eventually eliminate predators in order to help
bird populations; one measure of success will be the volume and variety of
bird song throughout the
islands. The endemic avian species in New Zealand evolved without the
presence of predatory mammals, so many of them have been decimated by
the predation of birds and their eggs. The Cacophony Project is looking at
ways to reverse that.