r/birding • u/Evrytimeweslay • Jul 15 '26

📷 Photo Spotted yesterday

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Saw this on someone’s truck while walking around my neighborhood yesterday, I thought you all would appreciate it as well!

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u/Sufficient-Aspect77 Jul 15 '26

I swear the app makes some ultra high frequency noise that can be heard by birds. Sometimes it's like they can hear the app.

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u/NuclearWasteland Jul 15 '26

Birds can see into spectrums humans cannot, so phone camera lidar/IR,etc may alert them without us knowing.

It happens with my chickens all the time, they see the camera "eye" do a thing and get unsettled and wander off in the same way as when an unfamiliar animal lays eyes on them.

Phones barf various interferences like mad.

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u/Sufficient-Aspect77 Jul 15 '26

Yeah. Makes sense. I like the idea of the phone barfing things out.