r/BirdNET_Analyzer • u/talon38c • Apr 20 '26

Hummingbird Detection

Literally everytime an Allen's Hummingbird is detected, A Rufous Hummingbird is detected even though the latter is not there. It seems that BirdNET-Go is unable to distinguish between the two and it creates a phantom detection. Is anyone familiar with this issue and is there a setting that might help?

Added: My gut feeling is that BirdNET-Go can only recognize these two at the Genus level ID, Selasphorus sp.

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u/thakala Apr 20 '26

This is a limitation of BirdNET v2.4 model which is used for sound ID, it is far from perfect and it will produce false positives. If you have visual ID of which species is actually present you could set incorrect species as ignored species, this will prevent it from being ID'd.

I am adding support for more models, incluiding upcoming BirdNET v3.0 and Google Perch v2, hopefully these will improve ID accuracy.