The Kiwibit Beako 4K Smart Bird Feeder With Solar Roof is a bird feeder that captures video of visiting birds in 4K quality and automates the process of building a bird book. It is easy to set up, refill, and recharge, and has microSD local storage support. However, its species recognition is often wrong, and the still images it pulls to fill the bird book don't look great. The Beako offers higher video quality than many smart feeders, but it's a step behind the Bird Buddy Smart Feeder Pro, which captures even better pictures and video and works without a subscription fee. The feeder is powered by a removable, rechargeable battery that pops out of the bottom of the feeder so you can top it off via USB-C. It takes around 6 hours to fully charge the Beako battery. The Kiwibit app is available on both Android and iOS, and it guides you through connecting the feeder to your home Wi-Fi network. The app has four main pages: Home, Birds, Activity, and Account. The Birds page is a record of every species that's visited your feeder, and the Activity tab shows a list of every visitor in a daily calendar view. The Beako records 16:9 widescreen video at 4K (3,840 by 2,560) resolution, better than the soft 1080p you get with budget-line feeders. The camera switches to a monochrome night vision mode if a bird happens to stop by before or after sunset. The Beako is more about video than stills, and the lack of good stills is one of the reasons it is rated a little bit lower than the Birdfy 2 or Bird Buddy Pro.
