Our Story
The Naturalist
David Mann, Haikubox founder, was a young birder who spent hours in nearby Sapsucker Woods at Cornell. He later studied biology at Cornell and earned a PhD from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution focused on bioacoustics.
In this photo, nine-year old David had his binoculars ready for something more interesting than Canada Geese.
The Science
When David and long-time colleague Holger Klinck, PhD, Director of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, realized they shared a common interest and the technical skills to develop an automatic birdsong identification tool, Haikubox was hatched.
Core Values
Our mission is to improve environmental literacy and promote conservation and stewardship by helping people learn and care about the natural world.
We are fulfilling our responsibility to positively impact the environment, one backyard at a time
