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I used facial recognition technology on birds

  • Written by Lewis Barnett, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Richmond
I used facial recognition technology on birdsDo you know this downy woodpecker?Lewis Barnett, CC BY-SA

As a birder, I had heard that if you paid careful attention to the head feathers on the downy woodpeckers that visited your bird feeders, you could begin to recognize individual birds. This intrigued me. I even went so far as to try sketching birds at my own feeders and had found this to be...

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