Photo: Daniel Berkowic

Technical Tools and Code


Poke a bird 

Poke-a-bird is a software developed to replace the Perspective Birdy (see below) by Michal Kern, and can be downloaded from her webstie: https://github.com/michalkeren/Poke-A-Bird-0.7/releases

The Poke-a-bird program was developed in 2019 and is more advanced and updated than the Perspective Birdy. It has two versions (0.7.3 and 0.7.4 to work with Windows 7 and 10, respectively).

The program may be used freely, for non-profit means only,

Users are expected to give credit or cite the program in their publications in one of the two following ways:

option 1:
Video analysis was done with the aid of the Poke-a-bird 0.7  software, coded by Michal Keren (http://arnonlotem.weebly.com/technical-tools--code.html)

option 2:
Video analysis was done with the aid of the Poke-a-bird 0.7  software [1].
<<in the reference section:>>

1. M. Keren. 2019 Video analysis software Poke-a-bird 0.7  software.
http://arnonlotem.weebly.com/technical-tools--code.html 

Perspective Birdy

Perspective Birdy is a program coded in Python that has been written in our lab as an aid to analyzing videos of animal behavior. It is designed for the analysis of videos of an experimental setting in which the animals move on a square grid of any size. The analyzer may use it in order to document up to two place-dependent behaviors and a variety of general behaviors, alongside their location on the grid and their time of occurrence. This can be done for up to 9 individuals simultaneously.

The current operating version is Birdy 1.0, written by Yonatan Perry and Eric Shellef.

The program may be used freely, for non-profit means only.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or are interested in more details. Also, if you choose to use the program, please let me know.
lotem@post.tau.ac.il.

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Recommended citation:

option 1:
Video analysis was done with the aid of the Perspective Birdy 1.0 software, coded by Y. Perry and E. Shellef.

option 2:
Video analysis was done with the aid of the Perspective Birdy 1.0 software [1].
<<in the reference section:>>

1. Perry, Y., and Shellef, E. Video analysis software Perspective Birdy 1.0.
http://arnonlotem.weebly.com/technical-tools--code.html
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Perspective Birdy 1.0, full program files: