Birdfy has introduced a brand new model of its camera-equipped metallic feeder with an upgraded digicam to make you’re feeling even nearer to nature whereas gazing your telephone from the couch. The Birdfy Feeder Metallic 2 has the same design to the unique, utilizing metallic panels that animals like squirrels can’t chew via to entry its 1.8-liter stockpile of seeds. Nevertheless 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 Metallic 2 (4K) is launching at this time for $269.99. You’ll must pay an elective 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 most recent model can acknowledge greater than 6,000 species and makes use of AI to generate a customized abstract of info and insights in regards to the fowl, 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 earlier model prices $4.99 monthly or $49 per yr.)
The brand 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 extra sign extenders. However regardless of the place it’s put in, video is completely capped at 20fps to maintain livestreams operating easily. Additional streamlining set up is a built-in photo voltaic cell so the Birdfy Feeder Metallic 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.
