News Raspberry Pi Smart Bird Feeder Identifies Feathered Dinner Guests

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Hermy65 has built a Raspberry Pi smart bird feeder that can recognize birds who stop by for a snack and documents them so you can see who visited later.

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[bit_user]

During the recent bird flu outbreak that devastated a large portion of the poultry stock (egg prices, anyone?), I head the advice that people should take down their bird feeders. It's better if you can promote a habitat friendly to birds, than to have fixtures like feeders or baths which could help spread diseases.

It would be cool if you had some way to integrate a bird flu detector into a feeder, and could automatically shut down the feeder once an infected bird has used it. Then, the owner could sterilize it before putting it back up for use.