AX Visio from Sabah, Borneo (1 Viewer)

[Jason Bugay Reyes]

Currently testing the AX Visio and so far been impressed with its capabilities in identifying birds from long and short distances plus against the morning sun.

Will keep this thread updated



White-browed Crake




Long-toed Stint taken from inside the car by wife through the window




Wood Sandpiper taken from inside the car by wife through the window

 

[Jason Bugay Reyes]

One best thing about the AX Visio is we could adjust the exposure value at -10 to +10 through the Swarovski Optik Outdoor app and as the light was fading fast, I set the EV to +3 to helped the lens in getting almost accurate reading of the species below. If the pics are not in focus or blur, it will struggle to ID

So far, no problem in identifying Great White, Medium and Little Egret at one click!




Collared Kingfisher




Purple Heron




Little Egret




Great Egret




Little Egret




Black-winged Stilt




Medium Egret




Oriental Pratincole at 5.58 PM

 

[Jason Bugay Reyes]

Spent several hours on the Mt. Trusmadi bird hide yesterday morning and started using the AX Visio around 6.55 AM and it was a bit dark for the AX but still manages to ID those birds below:

When I stepped out from the hide, tried to get few birds for ID but it was not able to do so for fast moving species...




Sunda Scimitar-Babbler




Asian Emerald Dove




Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush




Oriental Magpie Robin




White-crowned Shama

 

[Jason Bugay Reyes]

Quite happy with the inflight Oriental Darter




And the skulker Yellow Bittern

 

[adhoc]

Thank you, J.B.R.

Just wonderful. Amazing.

Terrifying.

I see 3 stages in the relationship between this forum and such devices.

Stage 1. The present. Most posts on this forum on them show some resentment to them, most of these again emotional or at least partly irrational.

Stage 2. Very soon. Most posts on this forum on them show acceptance and appreciation.

Stage 3. Too soon. Most posts on this forum are by them.

Disclosure. For decades have been increasingly worried about AI.

BTW, I wonder what are the basic, "field", ID algorithms used, for the species above, especially for, and "between", the 2 larger Egrets. How these are then processed is, of course, where the magic happens.

Adding in edit. Seeing the post by Peter.home below I would clarify: By "such devices" I mean any with this technology. The future I fear, of course, includes enhancement with other technologies.

Should also explain: The phrase above beginning "especially" is only due to the limitations of my familiarity with the species shown here.

 

[Jason Bugay Reyes]

Thank you, J.B.R.

Just wonderful. Amazing.

Terrifying.

I see 3 stages in the relationship between this forum and such devices.

Stage 1. The present. Most posts on this forum on them show some resentment to them, most of these again emotional or at least partly irrational.

Stage 2. Very soon. Most posts on this forum on them show acceptance and appreciation.

Stage 3. Too soon. Most posts on this forum are by them.

Disclosure. For decades have been increasingly worried about AI.

I wonder about the basic, "pure", ID algorithms used, and how numerous, especially for, and "between", the 2 larger Egrets. How they are then processed is, of course, where the magic happens.

Thanks and based on the feedbacks from my place, this device is also useful for enforcement inside the forest reserve for illegal hunters, loggers and the unethical behaviours by bird photographers when dealing with nesting pictures etc via function of video and picture wit the AX.

For researchers, those unidentified birds on the field, they could do that with Merlin once they are back on their base camp or office. No need to carry long lens etc

 

[Peter.home]

I don't think the long term is necessarily this technology bolted onto binoculars.
I could see a more seamless relationship between cameras with telephoto lens uploading pics to smartphones, and the auto identification taking place on the smartphone, in the field.
Pros being:
*Better quality pics,
*Potentially a choice of different auto identification apps
*Cheaper binoculars!

 

[Jason Bugay Reyes]

With new updates for the AX Visio, I spent several hours at the rice fields with friends and some of those ID birds in flights below:




Barn Swallow, common migrants




Germain's Swiftlet uncommon residents




Common Greenshank, common migrants




Long-toed Stint, common migrants




White-winged Tern, common migrants from North Asia




Common residents

 

[Maljunulo]

Probably the best I could do with those photos would be “Most probably a bird”

I don’t know about anyone else.

 

[tenex]

With new updates for the AX Visio, I spent several hours at the rice fields with friends and some of those ID birds in flights below

AX is correctly identifying those birds from the photos you posted? I'm impressed.

 

[Jason Bugay Reyes]

Drove early to Likas Lagoon in the city and started using the AX Visio at 5.56 AM before sunrise and following bird in flight while focusing on the left finger and pressing the button on the right finger for identification are the only way to get better results 😍




Oriental Darter, common residents




Great White Egret, common migrants




Germain's Swiftlet, uncommon residents on the coast of Sabah




Yellow-bellied Prinia, common residents




Java Sparrow, scare residents




Blue-throated Bee-Eater, common residents like a bullet!




I think it was taken last Saturday

 

[Canip]

Species in last pic probably luna decrescens, common resident worldwide?

 

[Jason Bugay Reyes]

Field trip for the seabirds identification workshop at Mantanani Island, the AX Visio did well except for the Mantanani Scops Owl which it did not managed to identify...




Pied Triller




Lesser Frigatebird from the moving boat!




Crested Honey-Buzzard




Eyebrowed Thrush, common migrants




Supposed to be Mantanani Scops Owl, but it did not managed to identify the bird...

 

[kabsetz]

Did you try the owl with Merlin afterwards?

 

[Jason Bugay Reyes]

Did you try the owl with Merlin afterwards?

Yeah and also with friend's image of the owl taken with mirrorless, Merlin couldn't identify it too

 

[Canip]

Look like the Mantanani Scops Owl is not yet in the list of birds in the Merlin app.

EDIT: Jason knows it better! I was wrong

 

[Jason Bugay Reyes]

Look like the Mantanani Scops Owl is not yet in the list of birds in the Merlin app.

It is in the Merlin app and I think, the lesser images per species in the Merlin would be the main factor for difficult identification with the AX Visio. I could be wrong though...

 

[Jason Bugay Reyes]

Few more and I noticed in the low light rainforest, AX does struggle a bit to identify moving birds and with the EV at +3, it does reduced the shutter speed, hence the blur images but it was sharp while on identification like the Kingfisher below



Brown-throated Sunbird, common residents




Asian Glossy Starling, common residents




Rufous-backed Dwarf Kingfisher, common residents

 

[Jason Bugay Reyes]

What I like the most about this AX Visio, its ability to ID birds in flight even in low light like overcast like the two images of Wandering Whistling-Duck. I focused on the left finger for the bino and uses right finger to pre-focus on the bird and once it is in focus, I pressed the button all the way down 🤤





Striated Grassbird




Asian Glossy Starling




The lovely Java Sparrow

 

[tenex]

What I like the most about this AX Visio, its ability to ID birds in flight even in low light like overcast like the two images of Wandering Whistling-Duck. I focused on the left finger for the bino and uses right finger to pre-focus on the bird and once it is in focus, I pressed the button all the way down

This may seem a silly question, but while doing all this, do you feel you had time to enjoy watching the bird or think about identifying it yourself?