Unable to detect birds from a different region

[tanishasaraf25]

I am currently in the US, and i am trying to play sounds of birds mainly found in the South American region. However, it is not able to detect any of the species. I have tried using some of my own recorded audios and ones found online. I tried switching to the Global Model from the tools bar, but that did not work either.

Does the model/server switch based on which region you are in? Are there any settings i should change to tackle this?

I am currently using a Raspberry pi 5 and have connected MicroMoth as the microphone. I am using this repo: Nachtzuster

If anyone else has faced this issue, or resolved it, please comment.

Thank you!

[alexbelgium]

Hi, you should try decreasing your species threshold, and use the old species occurrences model. If you go in the config, you can see in the first options the type of birds seen with your selected threshold of occurrence. Lower it until reach the species you want. I have it around 0.000556 to have all owl species that occur naturally here

[tanishasaraf25]

I did try to use the older model but that didn't work

I was able to resolve it by changing my latitude and longitude to the region where the birds are more commonly found. So i suppose that the location does matter when trying to detect different species.

[alexbelgium]

Have you tried to check the values of occurrence threshold with the tool in the options? I get sometimes misidentification of a Chinese bird due to my very low threshold so I think all species are available for all locations, even if it is with a lower threshold

Anyway glad it worked in the end for you!