Pune · Baner Hill · BirdNET on two recorders

Birds of Pune: what Baner Hill hears

Earth Pulse records birdsong on two recorders in Baner, Pune, the east node and the south node (which faces Baner Hill), and names each bird with Cornell Lab's BirdNET. This page lists only confirmed birds: species that BirdNET scored at 0.70 or more in a recording.

Data refreshed hourly from the Earth Pulse snapshot.

At a glance · confirmed birds only (BirdNET ≥ 0.70)

Confirmed species
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Confirmed detections
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Recordings analysed
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Species heard today
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Species, last 7 days
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The species

Confirmed birds

Each card shows the highest confidence BirdNET gave the bird here, and how often it is heard: the share of all recordings in which it was confirmed. Tap a bird for its own page.

Did you know?

Did you know?Facts from the recordings load with the data.

How we count

From birdsong to a confirmed bird

Record

Each node records 5 minutes at a time: every 10 minutes around dawn and dusk, and at :00 and :30 the rest of the day and night.

Slice

BirdNET splits each recording into 3-second slices and gives every bird it recognises a confidence score from 0 to 1.

Detect

One detection is one species heard in one recording, scored by its best slice.

Confirm

Only detections scoring 0.70 or more are published here. Everything from 0.15 up is kept for researchers.

The two recorders
Recordings and confirmed birds by node. The east node is on an east-facing balcony; the south node faces Baner Hill.
NodeRecordingsDaysSpeciesDetections
Until the shared recording schedule began, the east node recorded only around dawn, dusk and at night, so raw counts from the two nodes cannot be compared directly. Rates per recording can.

Daily rhythm

When do Baner's birds call?

Birds sing hardest in the first hours of light. Because the recorders also listen more often at dawn, the chart shows confirmed detections per 100 recordings in each hour, which removes that bias.

Through the year

Species by month, and the discovery curve

Monthly counts rise with the winter migrants and dip in the monsoon, when rain noise lowers BirdNET's confidence. The discovery curve adds each species on the day it was first confirmed: when it flattens, the recorders have heard most of the birds that call here in that season.

The community

Who lives on Baner Hill?

Useful for tree planters, teachers and researchers: what the confirmed birds eat, where they feed and when they are active. Traits come from field guides for the Pune region and are marked provisional until reviewed for Baner; birds not yet described are shown as such, never guessed from their names.

Bars show the number of confirmed species in each group; the right column adds the group's share of all confirmed detections.

Go deeper

Explore Baner's birds

Migrants this seasonWhich winter visitors have arrived since 1 July, and which are still expected. Bird of the dayOne confirmed Baner bird each day, with its daily rhythm and calendar. Top birds of Baner HillThe most-heard species over the past year. Dawn birdsThe species that open the morning chorus. Night birdsOwls and nightjars heard while the city sleeps. Download the dataEvery BirdNET result from 0.15 up, after free sign-in.

More from Earth Pulse

Checklist

Confirmed species checklist

All 76 species BirdNET has confirmed here (confidence 0.70 or more), with each one's highest confidence, as of . The page refreshes this list from the hourly snapshot.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

How many bird species have been confirmed in Pune by Earth Pulse?

As of , Earth Pulse's two recorders on Baner Hill, Pune have confirmed 76 bird species (BirdNET confidence 0.70 or more) in 12,045 recordings since 29 Mar 2026.

What does "confirmed" mean on Earth Pulse?

BirdNET scores each 3-second slice of a recording from 0 to 1. A bird counts as confirmed in a recording when at least one slice scored 0.70 or more. Only confirmed birds are published on the site.

Which birds are heard most often on Baner Hill?

By the share of recordings they are confirmed in: Asian Koel (9.3%), Ashy Prinia (7.6%), Red-wattled Lapwing (6.5%), Common Tailorbird (2.3%), Jungle Prinia (1.7%), Gray Francolin (1.2%). These rates measure calling, not numbers of birds.

When is the best time to hear birds in Baner, Pune?

At first light. Between 05:00 and 07:59 IST the recorders confirm 45.8 birds per 100 recordings, against 40.2 over the whole day.

Are migratory birds heard on Baner Hill?

Since 1 July, 14 migrant or visiting species have been confirmed this season. The migratory birds page lists each with the date it was first confirmed.

Does Earth Pulse keep the lower-confidence results?

Yes. Every BirdNET result from 0.15 up is stored, because researchers set their own thresholds for each species. Signed-in users can download them from the data page under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence. We suggest 0.70 as the starting filter.

How does Earth Pulse record birds?

Two Raspberry Pi recorders in Baner, the east node (east-facing balcony) and the south node (facing Baner Hill), record 5 minutes at a time on the same schedule and run Cornell Lab's BirdNET. Monitoring began in March 2026.

What we record and what we publish

Recorded: two Raspberry Pi recorders in Baner, Pune, at the eastern edge of the Sahyadri (Western Ghats) foothills: the east node on an east-facing balcony and the south node facing Baner Hill. Each records 5 minutes at a time and runs BirdNET, the classifier from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Chemnitz University of Technology. BirdNET only considers species expected at these coordinates in that week of the year (about 230 to 240 species), so a bird outside that list cannot be detected.

Stored: every 3-second slice BirdNET scored 0.15 or more, with the time, node, EU air-quality index and temperature at that moment.

Published: only confirmed birds, those scored 0.70 or more in a recording. Counts are detections (one species in one recording), not individual birds or calls. Rates are given per 100 recordings so that busier listening hours do not look like busier birds.

Times: since the new recorder scripts, each call has its exact time. Before that, rows carry the time the recording was saved, 5 to 10 minutes after the call; hourly charts use the recording's time and say so.

Downloads: researchers, students and citizens can download every stored result from 0.15 up on the data page after free sign-in. Earth Pulse observations are shared under CC BY-NC 4.0. Species photos come from Wikimedia Commons; tap © on a photo for the photographer and licence.