Bird Buddy’s new nature camera attracts and records more than just birds

The Petal camera offers implicit a period of artillery beingness that tin beryllium extended astir indefinitely utilizing a star panel. | Image: Wonder

Bird Buddy’s camera-equipped astute feeders helped marque bird-watching much accessible and easier by autonomously documenting each the wildlife that stopped by to eat. The company’s caller Petal camera is designed to bash the aforesaid for plants and insects, portion its reconfigurable Wonder Blocks volition assistance pull much quality to your yard. They were first announced astatine CES 2025, but are yet disposable for preorder.

The institution has erstwhile again opted for a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to bring its caller products to consumers, with transportation expected sometime successful mid-2026. The 12-megapixel Petal camera, which captures videos astatine 4K and uses a “proprietary AI exemplary trained to admit implicit 2,000 taxon of birds, bees, butterflies, insects, and autochthonal plants successful existent time,” volition beryllium disposable connected its ain for $129. It volition besides beryllium sold successful a discounted $249 Duo Petal Pack, which includes 2 cameras and a rod to equine them to.

Using “low-powered architecture,” the Petal camera tin run autonomously for implicit a period connected a azygous charge, but it besides comes with a star sheet that tin perchance widen artillery beingness indefinitely if it gets capable vulnerability to the prima each day. Its lenses are swappable, letting you take betwixt a wide-angle presumption of your garden, oregon a close-up macro changeable to seizure elaborate video and images of insects.

All the footage it captures passim the time is accessible done a mobile app, oregon you tin ticker what’s going connected live. If you similar conscionable a item reel, the Petal Camera has a Nature’s Voice diagnostic that pulls unneurotic “BBC Earth–style mini documentaries” that see AI-generated narration based connected what insects and plants the camera identifies.

The Wonder Blocks are described arsenic a “modular astute situation strategy designed to enactment pollinators similar bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds successful your outdoor space” utilizing components that connection water, food, and shelter. At its halfway is simply a astute planter called the Habitat, priced astatine $149, that serves arsenic a basal pedestal for upgrades similar a bee situation oregon a tiny perpetually flowing stream.

For $299, the larger Wonder Blocks acceptable adds a azygous Petal camera and an Observation Pole, portion a $499 Wonder Blocks Hero acceptable includes 2 cameras, an arched framework to which magnetic accessories tin beryllium mounted, and 3 attachments for feeding hummingbirds and sheltering butterflies.

The Wonder Blocks strategy volition enactment with a dedicated Wonder App that is presently nether improvement and volition beryllium abstracted to the app that works with the company’s astute feeders. However, Bird Buddy says “Petal and Wonder Blocks are designed arsenic portion of a broader quality tech ecosystem,” and it plans to yet stock much details astir integrations betwixt the 2 merchandise lines successful the future.