# How AI trained on birds is surfacing underwater mysteries

DevFeed: [How AI trained on birds is surfacing underwater mysteries](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-ai-trained-on-birds-is-surfacing-underwater-mysteries-6812.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://research.google/blog/how-ai-trained-on-birds-is-surfacing-underwater-mysteries/>)

Published: 2026-02-09T18:38:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The latest research from Google](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-latest-research-from-google.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [foundation-models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/foundation-models.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [dataset](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dataset.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>)

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## AI overview

Google Research describes how Perch 2.0, a bioacoustics foundation model trained primarily on birds and other terrestrial animals, transfers effectively to underwater audio tasks. The article highlights whale-vocalization classification, marine-ecosystem research, and a Google Colab tutorial using NOAA acoustic data through Google Cloud.

## Source excerpt

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