Nest box camera

A nest box camera, also known as a bird box camera, is a device for monitoring birds in nest boxes. Many pictures and videos of nesting birds can be watched on Internet sites that broadcast video stream and still images in real time.^[1].

Technology

As well as using visible light, infrared cameras may also be used; the infrared light not being dangerous to the nesting birds, according to the sites.^[2] The camera which is used is usually a web camera. Some of the nest box cameras also have microphones inside them.^[3] It is relatively easy to construct a nest box camera because often it involves little more than installing a camera in a nest box, remembering only to choose or construct a nest box large enough to contain the camera, and to use a camera suitable for outdoor conditions.

Sources

These sources have been translated to English from Finnish:

• Ponttokamera.net
• Vogel-nest-kamera.com

References

1. ^ http://ponttokamera.net/mika_tama_on.htm
2. ^ http://ponttokamera.vogel-nest-kamera.com/sivu_3.html
3. ^ http://ponttokamera.vogel-nest-kamera.com

See also

• Nest box
• Bird