The AI program for recognizing bird vocalizations, Merlin, is available on your phone. It's really changed how birding is done. It will detect and identify the species of birds in real time as you are walking around, often before you yourself recognize them (if you are even able to).
How about an amplifier connected directly into the Merlin bird app’s always listening mode. You don’t even have to review the files. You’ll just get a list of all the birds it has picked up. Birdnet is probably the same API Merlin uses.
Why not keep all the electronics and sound card in the house and run a long XLR cable to the microphone?<p>Battery and sound card and preamplifier outdoors to then run a USB cable out to it seems like a bit of a faff.
Are there microphones that would let you "listen" to bats? We have bats fly around our house at dusk, it would be interesting to know what they "say", especially when two of them come close (unclear whether that's intentional or not).
See also <a href="https://app.birdweather.com/" rel="nofollow">https://app.birdweather.com/</a> which uses a community of stations using AI to match vocalizations with bird species. It was pretty easy to setup a Pi with a microphone using <a href="https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi">https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi</a> to start identifying birds outside my place.