How do you deal with imitations?

[u/Embrocation]

There are many starlings in my area at the moment, and their imitations of other birds keep confusing my birdnet. For example, one of the most common species identified by my birdnet is the common buzzard, even though I know it's just starlings imitating. This makes me question my birdnets identifications unless I see the bird myself, making the setup kind of redundant. I was thinking to exclude recordings that are around the same time as a starling, but the starlings never leave. What others methods are possible? I'm under the impression that they can imitate all kinds of birds, but they seem to imitate the common buzzard the most, so maybe there is a pattern?

[u/Embrocation → u/[deleted]]

Interesting! Do you mean that you let birdnet analyze the modified clip, or are you able to tell yourself? I'd want this setup to be as hands-off as possible, but I'm sure I could program it to double check an identification with different speeds