Birdfy’s new 4K feeder will educate you in regards to the birds it identifies

Birdfy has introduced a brand new model of its camera-equipped metallic feeder with an upgraded digicam to make you are feeling even nearer to nature whereas looking at your cellphone from the couch. The Birdfy Feeder Metal 2 has the same design to the unique, utilizing metallic panels that animals like squirrels can’t chew by way of to entry its 1.8-liter stockpile of seeds. But it now contains a 4K wide-angle digicam — a giant improve from the 1080P digicam on the unique — for capturing and streaming higher-res video.

The Birdfy Feeder Metal 2 (4K) is launching at the moment for $269.99. You’ll have to pay an optionally available month-to-month or annual subscription to entry the corporate’s AI-powered Birdfy OrniSense system, which initially launched at CES 2026 with its Hum Bloom feeder for hummingbirds. The newest model can acknowledge greater than 6,000 species and makes use of AI to generate a customized abstract of details and insights in regards to the chicken, as a substitute of pointing customers to a information base just like the earlier iteration. Subscription pricing isn’t recognized but, however for an additional $30, there’s additionally a $299.99 model of the feeder that comes with lifetime entry to the AI options. (The subscription for the previous version prices $4.99 per thirty days or $49 per yr.)

The new feeder’s Wi-Fi capabilities are additionally prolonged utilizing an exterior antenna, so Birdfy claims it may be put in removed from a house in a big yard with out the necessity for added sign extenders. But irrespective of the place it’s put in, video is completely capped at 20fps to maintain livestreams working easily. Further streamlining set up is a built-in photo voltaic cell so the Birdfy Feeder Metal 2 (4K) doesn’t want entry to energy, and an IP66 weatherproof ranking so that you don’t want to fret about sheltering it from rain or different inclement climate.