What your visitors see
The wildlife of your place, told as it happens.
Most properties have a richer cast of wildlife than anyone realizes — it just sings when no one's watching. Still Habitat listens around the clock and turns that into something your guests can follow: who's here, where, and when, across the seasons.
No app to download, no equipment to learn. A glance at a screen, and your land is telling its own story.
How it works for you
We handle the listening. You get the experience.
It's a turnkey amenity, not a tech project. We place the ears, tune them to your property, and hand you a live wildlife feed your visitors can enjoy.
We place the ears
Small, solar-powered, weatherproof ears go wherever your wildlife is — the meadow, the creek, the vineyard rows. No wiring, no Wi-Fi to run, nothing for your team to maintain.
Your land gets named
Each ear identifies what it hears on the spot and tuned to your region. The result is a steady, growing record of the species that share your property.
Your visitors watch it live
Detections appear in real time — on a screen in the lobby or great room, and on every visitor's phone. A naturalist program that runs itself.
Out in the meadow, the vineyard rows, or along the creek, a small solar panel keeps an ear running indefinitely — no trenching, no outlet, no battery swaps. Set it and forget it.
Near a barn, a porch, or the tasting room, just plug an ear into any USB-C charger. Shade, dense canopy, or a north wall is no problem — same device, same data, either way.
The experience
A reason to stay up, and a reason to come back.
People are curious about the place they're standing in. Still Habitat answers that curiosity all day long — the hawk over the vineyard at noon, the chorus of frogs after dusk, the owl at midnight, the first warbler at dawn. A glance at the screen, and your visitors are part of the place instead of passing through it.
It's a conversation starter at the tasting bar, a naturalist program that runs itself in the lobby, and proof of the living landscape members and guests came for. The land does the talking — and gives them a reason to return.
Catbird · the live view
The same wildlife, on the lobby screen and in every hand.
Catbird is the live view of your property. It runs in any browser — no app store, no download, no logins for guests. Put it on a screen at the front desk and it runs itself; share a link or a QR code and every visitor has it on their own phone in a tap.
Whole-property coverage
One ear can't hear 200 acres. A mesh can.
A single box covers a backyard. Real properties are bigger — and the best wildlife is usually far from the nearest outlet or Wi-Fi signal. Still Habitat's ears talk to each other over long-range radio (LoRa), so a far-flung ear by the creek can relay its detections across the whole property without any network of its own.
Every ear hands its findings down the chain to a single gateway — parked just outside the property, where there's power and a signal. That one point is all that ever touches the internet. The result: your guests see the owl at the back fence and the frogs at the pond in one live feed, no matter how far apart they are.
Beyond the visit
A year of listening becomes a story you can sell.
The live screen is for the people standing on your land today. But a season — or a year — of detections is something bigger: hard evidence of the biodiversity your property supports, ready for your website, your label, your grant application, your investor deck.
Claims you could make after a year of ears
What a season's data gives you
- A species list with counts and trends across the year
- Seasonal shifts — who arrives in spring, who sings at night
- Before-and-after proof for restoration or habitat work
- A verifiable biodiversity baseline for certifiers and funders
- Shareable highlights for your site, socials, and tasting room
Example claims for illustration. Still Habitat gives you the measured detections; the wording is yours. We keep it honest — birds are the strongest signal today, with other taxa emerging — so you only ever claim what your land was actually heard to support.
Who it's for
Properties with a story to tell.
If people visit, stay on, or invest in your land, Still Habitat turns its wildlife into something they can experience — and remember.
A signature amenity guests talk about: the wildlife around them, live in the lobby and on their phones.
A tasting-room talking point and a tangible sign of the healthy, living landscape behind your label.
Show members and donors the life their stewardship protects — a continuous record of a place worth saving.
A self-running naturalist exhibit that turns visitors into close listeners of the place.
Know — and share — the wild neighbors that make your land yours.
How we compare
Built for your property — not the backyard.
The popular bird-listening gadgets are made for one hobbyist's backyard: a single box, plugged into Wi-Fi, birds only. Still Habitat is built for properties that host people — turnkey, covering the whole place, hearing every taxon, with a season of data you can actually use.
| Still Habitat Us | Haikubox | BirdWeather PUC | BirdNET-Pi DIY | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnkey — we set it up | Yes — installed & tuned for you | Plug-and-play consumer box | Consumer box, some setup | Build it yourself (Raspberry Pi) |
| Subscription | None | ~$59/yr for history & alerts | None | None |
| Guest app required | No — opens in a browser | App to set up & use | App to set up & use | Self-hosted web page |
| Works fully offline | Yes — IDs on the device | No — needs the cloud | Records offline, IDs in the cloud | Yes — IDs locally |
| Your audio leaves the property | Never | Uploaded to their servers | Uploaded; shown on a public map | Local by default |
| Covers the whole property | Many ears, linked over LoRa | Single Wi-Fi box | Single Wi-Fi box | Single box, no meshing |
| What it hears | Birds, frogs, insects, mammals | Birds (+ bats) | Birds (+ bats, separate device) | Birds only |
| Identification model | Perch-based, tuned to your land | BirdNET-based | BirdNET | BirdNET |
| Made for hosting guests | Yes — the whole point | Consumer backyard gadget | Hobbyist / citizen science | Maker / DIY project |
Standard offerings as of mid-2026, from public materials. Product names belong to their owners.
You're in control
You decide what the world sees.
Show your wildlife proudly — most properties want their biodiversity seen. But it's your call: the public view shows the species and the story, while the complete record, the exact spots, and the raw recordings stay with you in Catbird, to share or keep as you like. Nothing about your land goes public unless you put it there.
You keep every insight. You choose what to share.
About
Still Habitat is an independent project by Jack Beautz, a software engineer and naturalist in the Bay Area — the hardware, models, and dashboard are all built in-house. [email protected]
There's more out there to hear
Keep it wild. Keep it yours.
Still wild. Still yours. Still habitat.
We're placing a small number of installs on Bay Area properties in summer 2026 — lodges, wineries, preserves, and estates. If you'd like to give your land a voice your visitors can hear, let's talk.