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A ruru inside a nest box looking at the camera. The picture is low resolution and blue/black due to the infrared camera.

Are we going to move in or not?

Night vision (infrared) screen grab of 2 ruru sitting on a branch in a bush setting and both looking cheekily towards a large nest box mounted on a tree to the right. Their eyes are reflecting the light which makes it appear somewhat comical

Question for #aoteoroa #nzBird nerds:
I'm trying to detect #ruru calls from an audio stream so that I can identify camera footage to review.
I'm using Frigate for visual object detection with little success so far.
The Frigate audio detection works much better for a variety of sounds, just not so well for ruru (since it wouldn't have been included in the training set and sounds quite different from other birds, owls, etc.).

Is there a (free) software/model I can use that might work better?

Sample clip from last night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gifDxEebWls

*1 Frigate audio detection uses https://www.tensorflow.org/hub/tutorials/yamnet which is trained on https://research.google.com/audioset/

IR (night vision) photo of 2 ruru at a nest box with one sitting on the perch and the other inside the entrance, boch looking at the camer with their eyes reflecting the lights.

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