Dawn-Chorus

A developer built Dawn Chorus Pro, a lightweight tool that lets hikers and birdwatchers record morning bird sounds with their phone in their pocket and identify calls after the walk instead of staring at a screen. The app filters BirdNET CSV acoustic logs against local seasonal and morning-hour data to drop false positives, plays verified calls from Xeno-canto on an interactive timeline, and uses Google's Gemma 3 1B model to generate a naturalist summary of the hike, keeping screen time to about one minute after a 45-minute walk.

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week1-2026-10-05 What I Built Dawn Chorus Pro is a lightweight tool for hikers and birdwatchers that gets you off your phone and into nature . The Problem When people go birdwatching, they stare at their screens trying to identify calls in real-time. This ruins the walk, drains phone battery, and sound classifiers often make mistakes confusing wind or car horns with rare birds . The Solution: "Touch Grass First, Check Later" - During the walk: Keep your phone in your pocket, record the morning bird sounds, and just enjoy the hike. - After the walk: Upload your acoustic log BirdNET CSV . - Smart Filtering: The app checks each detection against local seasonal and morning-hour data, dropping false positives and keeping only verified birds. - Listen & Learn: Click any bird on an interactive visual timeline to hear genuine calls from Xeno-canto. - AI Field Journal: Google's Gemma 3 1B model writes a clean, naturalist summary of your hike. Screen time is kept to just 1 minute after a 45-minute outdoor walk Demo Run It Locally in 1 Step Offline :