This AI-Powered Feeder Takes Ridiculously Cool Photos of Birds in Your Backyard

A few years ago, a hardware designer named Kyle Buzzard watched a viral video of a seagull that had stolen a GoPro and taken photos of itself looking into the camera.

“That started wonder and the questions, how can we do that and automate it?” recalls Buzzard, who incidentally has the perfect name for his avian interests.

Buzzard and his associates, Franci Zidar and Ziga Vrtacic, envisioned an AI-powered smart bird feeder that could identify and snap photos of 1000 bird species that might visit your backyard.

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