Haikubox owners participated in October Big Day, even if they didn't go birding! By plugging in the 24/7 birdsong identifier, they recorded bioacoustic data on October 11, 2025.
There were over 2,800 Haikuboxes online which identified over 500 bird species and created over 3.7 million bird song and call recordings in just one day. That's about half as many bird identifications as during May's Big Day, when birds were particularly vocal at the start of the spring breeding season.
The top bird species identified included Blue Jay (about 489 k recordings), Northern Cardinal (288 k recordings), Anna's Hummingbird (256 k recordings), Black-Capped Chickadee (209 k recordings), Red-bellied Woodpecker (201 k recordings). Together, they accounted for over 38% of all birds recorded on this day.
While not as diverse as birds identified in the spring, Haikuboxes identified Dark-eyed Junco (45,000 recordings from over 1,200 Haikubox sites), Acorn Woodpecker (over 6,000 recordings from almost 100 Haikubox sites).and the Cooper's Hawk (over 2,000 recordings from over 840 Haikubox sites).
This year we also looked at some birds identified in Euroope, including European Robin (identified over 36,000 times at 69 Haikubox sites), Eurasian Blue Tit (identified over 5,000 times at more than 70 sites), and Redwing (identified almost 2,000 times at more than 60 sites).
Other cool birds recorded included the Belted Kingfisher (identified 3,700 times at over 600 Haikubox sites), Lesser Goldfinch (identified 17,000 times at over 460 Haikubox sites), and Black Phoebe (identified 48,000 times at over 370 Haikubox sites).
See you next year!
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Mariah — Thanks for your comment! You are welcome to create a free account to look at the distribution of Haikuboxes and to check the birds they are identifying in real time. Download the Haikubox smartphone app or visit the webpage (https://listen.haikubox.com) to sign up. You’ll see that there are more Haikuboxes installed in the eastern US, and distribution follows the population distribution.
It would be interesting to see the distribution of haiku boxes on a map. Seems like a lot of eastern US species in the Oct 11 count. Are there fewer boxes in the western US or fewer birds, or both?