Twigle Birds Identification App

Twigle is a birding app which sets itself apart from other bird watching apps for in that it can record a singing bird and identify the bird by its song. For those who have used or are familiar with music recognition apps like SoundHound or Shazam, the concept is the same. Twigle pretty much does for birds what those apps do for music that is being played.

Its bird song recognition technology employs machine learning to classify the user's recording of a bird song. This bird song recognition app helps people to identify birds by their songs, which is often a hard and tedious task to accomplish by ear. According to a survey by BBC Gardeners World Magazine the majority of people in the Britain can’t identify the songs of their country’s most common garden birds, giving rise to the need for birdsong identification apps like Twigle.

The app has been available on iTunes App Store and on Windows Phone Store since 2014. Its database provides coverage for birds of Southern Africa, UK, and North America. Twigle uses image recognition to help you identify 540 species of birds from North America, 350 species from Southern Africa and 310 species from the UK & Ireland with an accuracy of 60%.

Twigle's feature list
• Identifying birds based only on their calls and songs.

• Keeping a bird journal to record bird sightings

• Searching birds using their visual attributes like color, habitat, bird size, and beak appearance.

• Composite identification images that show birds in various poses and stages of their lifetime on a single plate.

• Playback of several songs and calls for each bird through the in-app database.

• Ability to pinch and zoom HD pictures to see each bird in great detail.