ReaWild

BirdNET and Perch listen to your field recordings. ReaWild turns what they hear into named regions on the REAPER timeline, for you to confirm by ear.

Built first-hand by award-winning wildlife sound recordist Axel Drioli, and used across terabytes of recordings on Across Continents.

Experimental: expect rough edges.

REAPER timeline with ReaWild regions on the BirdNET 2.4 and BirdNET 3.0 lanes, such as ? Blue-cheeked Bee-eater and ? Red-eyed Dove, above a recording from Tasso Island, Sierra Leone
Tasso Island, Sierra Leone: one lane per model, each region a suggestion until you confirm it.

Built in the field

Made first-hand by award-winning wildlife sound recordist Axel Drioli, for his own field work on Across Continents.

Terabytesof field recordings sorted with it
Europe to West Africaoverland, months on the road
Every nightseveral recorders running, sorted at camp, on a car bonnet, in a guesthouse room
Version after versiontested on those same recordings
Axel at a camp table with a laptop and recorder, his pickup truck behind him among the trees
Outamba-Kilimi National Park, Sierra Leone, April 2024
A laptop showing an audio session on a round table under a thatched roof, with recorders and cables
Sierra Leone, April 2024

Get started

1

Ask for a licence

Sign up and we'll email you your licence.

Ask for a licence
2

Download 0.19.0

Mac, Apple Silicon 2.6 MB Mac, Intel 2.6 MB Windows 10 or 11 2.6 MB

Which Mac? Apple menu → About This Mac.

3

Start

Unzip, open START HERE.txt and sign in once. After that it works offline.

Axel typing on a laptop on a home-made desk in the front seat of his van
Germany, May 2023
A laptop and headphones on the open tailgate of the truck, in long grass
Aiguamolls de l'Empordà, Spain, May 2023
A folding table with a laptop and recorder outside a forest station, the truck parked behind
Omo Forest, Nigeria, April 2025

What you need

  • REAPER 7.79 or newer.
  • macOS 13+ or Windows 10 / 11. Intel Macs: BirdNET 3.0 only, for now.
  • Internet to set up, then it works offline. Your recordings never leave your computer.
  • About 2.3 GB of free space.

Where it struggles

The models learned mostly from European and North American recordings, so they miss more birds elsewhere.

RegionBirds BirdNET 2.4 can't recognise
Europe, North America~5
Asia, North Africa, Central America10–40
South America, Australia25–55
West and Central Africa70–90
East and Southern Africa110+

Per 1° map square. BirdNET 3.0 and Perch v2, which ReaWild also runs, know many more.

Your data

  • We keep your name, email, a scrambled password, and each computer's name and scrambled id. Nothing else.
  • If you send us feedback from ReaWild, we keep it with your email, computer name and ReaWild version.
  • Remove a computer or delete your account any time.
  • The BirdNET models are for non-commercial use only.
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