Fresh BirdNET installation detecting birds incorrectly (e.g. from a remote geography) #956

jgelsey · 2023-06-12T18:12:06Z

jgelsey
Jun 12, 2023

Hi,

I've freshly installed BirdNET yesterday on a freshly-installed Raspbian Bullseye RPI4 system. The system is detecting birds incorrectly - e.g. this morning it found a Blue-headed Parrot, even though I am in western Washington state. I've run species.py and then rebooted to see if that might nudge the system to look at local species, but no luck.

If it's useful at all for debugging this, the most common species detected is a Yellow-bellied Elaenia, which does not range further north than Mexico.

Thanks for any suggestions on what I might try here!

Answered by ehpersonal38

Jun 13, 2023

Okay, got your system all fixed up! Turns out you were using the old model so the labels file was mismatched. I just changed the model to the new one and all is well. You also had some weird issue after that where the analysis was hanging... I still don't know why it happened, but a few restarts of services and it seems to be chugging away again. Let me know if you need any other assistance!

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ehpersonal38 · 2023-06-12T19:49:16Z

ehpersonal38
Jun 12, 2023
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Could you try running this command and seeing if things come back to normal?

language=$(grep 'DATABASE_LANG=' ~/BirdNET-Pi/birdnet.conf | awk -F '=' '{print $2}') && chmod +x ~/BirdNET-Pi/scripts/install_language_label_nm.sh && ~/BirdNET-Pi/scripts/install_language_label_nm.sh -l $language

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tsiawd Mar 4, 2024

Mine is doing this also only finding birds from a different continent. Does anyone know a fix to this?

jgelsey · 2023-06-12T20:42:51Z

jgelsey
Jun 12, 2023
Author

Thanks - unfortunately this doesn't seem to help.

When I installed, I created a local version of newinstaller.sh (from curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi/main/newinstaller.sh) and put the chmod +x in there in order to get the original install to work. It finished with no errors.

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ehpersonal38 Jun 12, 2023
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Can you uninstall then reinstall BirdNET-Pi? (scripts/uninstall.sh).

jgelsey · 2023-06-13T02:58:29Z

jgelsey
Jun 13, 2023
Author

Done. Doesn't seem to have made a difference, other than it's now detecting a "White-browed piculet" (native to Asia) with 75%-95% confidence. Given that I am in Washington state, doesn't seem likely this is accurate. :)

Happy to give you ssh access to the RPI4 through a Tailscale VPN if you want to poke around - it's a fresh install of Bullseye so nothing sensitive there.

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ehpersonal38 Jun 13, 2023
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Sure, that sounds good. Send me an email with the details and I'll have a look. My email is my Github username @gmail.com.

ehpersonal38 Jun 13, 2023
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Okay, got your system all fixed up! Turns out you were using the old model so the labels file was mismatched. I just changed the model to the new one and all is well. You also had some weird issue after that where the analysis was hanging... I still don't know why it happened, but a few restarts of services and it seems to be chugging away again. Let me know if you need any other assistance!

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rovermeyer Aug 22, 2023

What is the fix for this? I did a new install yesterday. I live in Maryland and all of the birds I'm detecting are from Africa.

Quake9203 Dec 15, 2023

Same issue. I just installed earlier this week. I live in Michigan and am detecting birds in China and Vietnam.

jgelsey · 2023-06-14T01:33:26Z

jgelsey
Jun 14, 2023
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Awesome - thank you! Super appreciate you fixing it up for me. We just moved to a very rural area with all sorts of interesting birds to track, so BirdNET will be super useful to us.

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vinceskahan · 2023-06-22T02:15:16Z

vinceskahan
Jun 22, 2023

(apologies - solved this one myself by switching to the BirdNET_GLOBAL_6K_V2.4_Model_FP16 (2023) database via the Tools menu. Should that be the default these days ???)

~~ Me too. Also near Seattle/Tacoma. Merlin on the iPhone is correctly identifying the white-crowned sparrow that I'm sitting here looking at, but BirdNET on the pi.is incorrectly identifying it as a Malagasy Bulbul or a Long-tailed Koel, neither or which are from anywhere near here. This is on a clean pi4 using latest raspi os 64 bit. ~~

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SharonD214 Jun 30, 2023

Thanks, this solved my issue as well

kpcmm · 2023-07-26T03:35:24Z

kpcmm
Jul 26, 2023

I've had the same problem, and hopefully solved it by switching to the new model. Is there any way to get a list of corresponding names for the new model. E.g. what should a blue headed parrot really be? I'd like to have a go at updating the detections table with the correct names and renaming all those mp3 files to match. I have over a week of data which it would be a shame to lose. Did this data get uploaded somewhere? Is bad data percolating up? Thanks, Kevin

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vinceskahan · 2023-08-22T21:21:07Z

vinceskahan
Aug 22, 2023

Read the thread. Switch which db you use.

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rovermeyer Aug 22, 2023

I don't see any instructions on how to change DB's

rovermeyer Aug 22, 2023

Found it under settings.

Thanks

illflavored Jan 3, 2024

This happened to me as well
The fix is to go to Tools --> Settings
Under this you will see Model at the top with a dropdown to Select a Model:

It defaults to BirdNET_6K_GLOBAL_MODEL which is legacy. You don't want this one. It's described as

BirdNET_6K_GLOBAL_MODEL (2020)
This is the BirdNET-Lite model, with bird sound recognition for more than 6,000 species worldwide. This has generally worse performance than the newer models but is kept as a legacy option.

The fix is to switch the model to

BirdNET_GLOBAL_6K_V2.4_Model_FP16 (2023)
This is the BirdNET-Analyzer model, the most advanced BirdNET model to date. Currently it supports over 6,000 species worldwide, giving quite good species coverage for people in most of the world.

Then don't forget to hit Update Settings at the bottom of the page to save/restart services

I think it would make sense to change the default to the current instead of legacy on new installs

srd424 · 2023-08-25T07:18:05Z

srd424
Aug 25, 2023

@ehpersonal38 :

You also had some weird issue after that where the analysis was hanging... I still don't know why it happened, but a few restarts of services and it seems to be chugging away again. Let me know if you need any other assistance!

I've seen an issue fairly frequently where incomplete recordings cause analysis to hang, but I've never managed to capture a good example for debugging!

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Candyjet · 2024-01-27T17:06:37Z

Candyjet
Jan 27, 2024

I had the same problem. Switching the model fixed it, thanks.

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AlaskanAstro · 2024-03-16T20:54:54Z

AlaskanAstro
Mar 16, 2024

I had the same issue. Seems like the default model should be changed if people keep having this issue?

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macjustice Mar 17, 2024

Just ran into it myself, reviving my birdnetpi after a year or so off. Glad the fix is easy, but definitely change the default

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