In this paper, we address the problem of bird audio detec-
tion and propose a new convolutional neural network archi-
tecture together with a divergence based information channel
weighing strategy in order to achieve improved state-of-the-
art performance and faster convergence. The effectiveness of
the methodology is shown on the Bird Audio Detection Chal-
lenge 2018 (Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes
and Events Challenge, Task 3) development data set.