How artificial intelligence may help NZ birds | RNZ News:

A study to identify individual kākā using AI has received a funding boost of $1 million, one of a number of research projects using artificial intelligence "for good". …

The project began with photographs taken in nesting boxes at Zealandia, perfectly set up to allow snapshots of the birds heads in profile while they fed.

They were now achieving 90 to 95 percent accuracy with this method, Lensen said, but in a surprise twist, the AI was using posture rather than beaks, which the team had initially thought would be easiest, to tell birds apart.

The next step would be to scale up the complexity and test the AI's ability to identify birds against a background of trees, rather than the inside of a feeding box.