Icteria
Passive acoustic monitoring, made insightful

Turn a field recording into a conservation insight.

Upload a field recording and Icteria identifies the birds, cross-checks them against a second model and live eBird sightings, and writes you a clear field report — plus a calendar of the best days and times to record where you are.

No sign-up, no password. Start recording and your reports, insights and species list are saved as you go.
Wood Thrush
Wood Thrush
Baltimore Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Northern Cardinal
Northern Cardinal
Common Loon
Common Loon
Black-capped Chickadee
Black-capped Chickadee
Pileated Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-winged Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Song Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Barred Owl
Barred Owl
American Robin
American Robin

A few of the ~6,000 species Icteria can identify — from your own recordings.

What Icteria does

Three real acoustic models and live ecological data behind every report.

Identifies ~6,000 species

Cornell's BirdNET runs on your audio across the full global taxonomy, filtered to what's plausible at your location and date.

Two-model verification

A second model (HawkEars) weighs in on the same clip. When the models disagree, you see it — an honest signal of uncertainty, not a false certainty.

Hears the whole soundscape

YAMNet flags the non-bird sounds present — wind, traffic, voices, rain — so you know how the noise floor affects each detection.

A smart recording calendar

Best days and the daily dawn-chorus window for your exact location and season — blended with the live weather forecast, since wind and rain swamp field audio.

Conservation insights over time

Icteria reasons across your recording history and live data to surface patterns — new arrivals and departures, migration, and shifts in the diversity you're hearing season to season.

A field report, written for you

Icteria synthesizes the detections, weather, season and nearby sightings into a clear, readable report — and every one is saved to your account to build on.

~6,000species Icteria can identify
3independent acoustic models
LiveeBird & weather on every report

How it works

1

Set your location

Tell Icteria where you record. Everything — the calendar, the species filter, the sightings — tunes to it.

2

Record when it counts

Pick a day the calendar rates highly and record in the window it recommends, then upload the clip (any common audio format).

3

Get your report

Species, second-model check, soundscape, and a report written by Icteria — in under a minute.

Start listening to your landscape.

Free to use, no account required. Your recordings and reports are saved as you go.