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While these models excel at detecting common birds with abundant training data, they lack options for species with only 1\u20133 known recordings, a critical limitation for conservationists monitoring the last remaining individuals of endangered birds. To address this, we leverage the embedding space of large bird classification networks and develop a classifier using cosine similarity, combined with filtering and denoising preprocessing techniques, to optimize detection with minimal training data. 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