Someone has figured out how to encode data into bird calls

The Register: Flock storage: Audio boffin encodes data in a starling

"...little bird successfully learned and emulated the sound in the exact same frequency range that he heard it, effectively transferring about 176 kilobytes of uncompressed information."

It's a neat demonstration of what a starling is capable of. "While there are a lot of caveats and limitations there," Jordan went on, "the fact that you could set up a speaker in your yard and conceivably store any amount of data in song birds is crazy."

We asked Jordan if there might be more attempts in the future. "I suppose if I were to try again, I'd use FT8 signals, which are used in amateur radio and designed to transmit data with the imperfections of analog signals.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/30/encoded_audio_starling_song/

#hamradio #ft8