A project which uses birdsong as a key to unlocking the secrets of wildlife has been launched in a collaboration between the UK Agri-Tech Centre and Chirrup.ai.

Chirrup.ai launched the technology to help make nature monitoring an affordable solution for measuring and managing biodiversity.

The project, 'ChirrupNano', with funding from Innovate UK, uses birdsong to monitor wildlife previously unseen in nature reserves and back garden bird counts.

Hayley Gerry, project manager at the UK Agri-Tech Centre, said: "The expanse of knowledge we can gain about biodiversity in an area using the bioacoustics of bird song is extremely impressive.

"To enable sustainable farming, we need to encourage multi-species habitats to enrich the areas, which in turn makes the farming of livestock and arable products sustainable.

"In order to do this we need to be able to measure the baseline of the current situation, and that is where this project comes in."

The project will be put to the test in the spring of 2025 across the UK.