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Spot the difference: the AI model can identify individual great tits with an accuracy of over 90%. Photograph: Arco Images GmbH/Alamy
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For even the most sharp-eyed of ornithologists, one great tit can look much like another. But now researchers have built the first artificial intelligence tool capable of identifying individual small birds. Computers have been trained to learn to recognise dozens of individual birds – which could potentially save scientists arduous hours in the field with binoculars, as well as the catching of birds to fit coloured rings to their legs.

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