“Critically endangered plains-wanderers have been found living in Melbourne’s west for the first time in more than 30 years.

Notoriously elusive and difficult to spot, the rare birds were detected on two pockets of remnant grassland by Zoos Victoria, with the help of AI.

The zoo installed 35 audio recorders, called song meters, across nine properties with suitable habitat. After collecting tens of thousands of hours of recordings, they used AI to sift through the data. They identified the birds’ distinctively soft and low ‘ooming’ call at two sites, with human experts confirming the discovery.”

From The Guardian.