
Haikubox, developed by Loggerhead Instruments, is an AI-powered bird call identifier and bird song recognition device that uses sound to identify birds in real-time, providing alerts and recordings to enhance birdwatching experiences. The product is a Wi-Fi enabled plug-in device that contributes to community science by creating a large network of passive acoustic monitoring stations. Haikubox's technology supports environmental literacy, conservation, and scientific research, including continent-wide studies such as bird behavior during solar eclipses. The company operates a direct-to-consumer business model with sales primarily in Europe and engages users in citizen science projects, leveraging neural networks and bioacoustics expertise from its founders and team.

Haikubox, developed by Loggerhead Instruments, is an AI-powered bird call identifier and bird song recognition device that uses sound to identify birds in real-time, providing alerts and recordings to enhance birdwatching experiences. The product is a Wi-Fi enabled plug-in device that contributes to community science by creating a large network of passive acoustic monitoring stations. Haikubox's technology supports environmental literacy, conservation, and scientific research, including continent-wide studies such as bird behavior during solar eclipses. The company operates a direct-to-consumer business model with sales primarily in Europe and engages users in citizen science projects, leveraging neural networks and bioacoustics expertise from its founders and team.
Founded: 2003 (Sarasota, Florida)
Flagship product: Haikubox — AI-enabled, 24/7 bird sound identifier that provides alerts, recordings and spectrograms
Research partners: Collaboration with Cornell Lab of Ornithology's K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics
Funding signal: Grant funding from NSF SBIR/STTR (most recent listed grant: Mar 1, 2022)
Other capabilities: Development and manufacture of underwater acoustics equipment
Automated bird vocalization identification and passive acoustic environmental monitoring (citizen/community-science enabled).
2003
Bioacoustics; Environmental monitoring
Listed as a grant round on Crunchbase; lead funder shown as NSF SBIR/STTR.
Listed as a grant round on Crunchbase.
Listed as a grant round on Crunchbase.
“NSF SBIR/STTR (grant support for product development)”