THE BIRDWATCHER

~~ spoor The 'Birdwatcher' D “From prediction uses AI models to to protect wildlife real-world data” ay HELPING WIND ENERGY GROW @ meyka BY ELIMINATING ONE OF ITS BIGGEST CRITICISMS: BIRD COLLISIONS. Asystem that predicts risk and slows turbines — translated into a visual language that changes public perception. Detailed insights into wind farm tech. leading Bil cee Zz # - isn’t just birdwatching. Monitoring and analysis of turbine operations. 30x me Enquiries up This is watching out for 7X longer dwell time Verified zero bird collision events. now used by global leaders Orsted | RWE | eauner BACKGROUND IDEA Pinet-based safety distance detection. ‘The Birdwatcher redesigned what biodiversity evidence looks like. An immersive, scroll-driven website that translates millions of real Zero confirmed collisions Wind energy faced a growing perception crisis. In January 2025, the President of the United States paused wind energy projects citing bird deaths, halting five offshore wind farms overnight. Spoor had already solved the problem technically, an Al continuously detecting, tracking, and classifying bird movement, trained on over one million birds and 200,000 hours of footage, with over 95% accuracy, But the category hadn't evolved. A dynamic system was being communicated through static formats: compliance reports, dashboards, and post-event summaries that few decision-makers engaged with. Systems that operate continuously were reduced to snapshots. The industry didn't lack evidence. It lacked a way to make that evidence visible, detection data points into a living visual system. Every design decision serves a function: particle motion indicates movement, proximity signals risk, interaction reveals cause and effect. Flight paths are rendered spatially. Species data layers contextually. Turbine responses link directly to detection events. A single visual logic ensures complexity becomes intuitive rather than overwhelming. The experience follows a single bird navigating the system, turning one of wind energy’s most complex datasets into a narrative that unfolds through interaction. By translating behaviour instead of displaying data, The Birdwatcher moved the industry from static, delayed understandable, and trustworthy at scale. analysis to immediate clarity, making invisible intelligence visible and turning scientific proof into something decision-makers could ‘grasp ata glance,