About

The birds heard recently in the yard, drawn from a backyard listening station and dressed up with photographs, sounds and lore from across the web.

It began with a request from my wife when she stumbled across AvianVisitors by Teddy Warner: “Could we do this at home?”

In place of its e-ink screen, we ported it to the television: a Samsung Frame whose Art Mode we refresh on an interval to reveal the latest visitors. This website became the next place to ingest and display the same data.

Credits

• Concept & collage: after AvianVisitors by Teddy Warner, whose frequency-packed bird collage this project ports.
• Photographs: iNaturalist contributors, under Creative Commons (each photo credits its photographer).
• Range maps, sounds & species accounts: eBird and All About Birds, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
• Detections: a backyard BirdNET listening station.
• Illustrations: whenever a new species is encountered, an image is generated based on Ohara Koson and Hiroshi Yoshida woodblock prints found on the Internet Archive. A few were borrowed from AvianVisitors (CC BY-NC-SA), where its West Coast populations cross over with my location in the Northeast.