Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab app for iPhone and iPad

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Developer: Cornell University

Free

Current version: 3.0.1, last update: 6 months ago
First release : 11 Dec 2013
App size: 97.44 Mb

Whats that bird? Ask Merlin—the world’s leading app for birds. Just like magic, Merlin Bird ID will help you solve the mystery.

Merlin Bird ID helps you identify birds you see and hear. Merlin is unlike any other bird app—its powered by eBird, the world’s largest database of bird sightings, sounds, and photos.

Merlin offers four fun ways to identify birds. Answer a few simple questions, upload a photo, record a singing bird, or explore birds in a region.

Whether you’re curious about a bird you’ve seen once or you’re hoping to identify every bird you can find, the answers are waiting for you with this free app from the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

WHY YOU’LL LOVE MERLIN
• Expert ID tips, range maps, photos, and sounds help you learn about the birds you spot and build birding skills.
• Customized lists of birds to find where you live or travel
• Merlin was created by bird experts for everyone.
• Merlin is global—look up any bird at any location.
• Keep track of your sightings—linked to eBird, a global database of more than 1 billion bird observations!

MACHINE LEARNING MAGIC
• Powered by Visipedia, Merlin Sound ID and Photo ID uses deep learning to identify birds in photos and sounds. Merlin learns to recognize bird species based on training sets of millions of photos and sounds collected by birders at eBird.org, archived in the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
• Merlin delivers the most accurate results thanks to experienced birders, who curate and annotate sightings, photos, and sounds, who are the true magic behind Merlin.

AMAZING CONTENT
• Choose bird packs that contain photos, songs, and calls, and identification help for anywhere in the world, including Mexico, Costa Rica, South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India, Australia, Korea, Japan, China, and more.
• It’s available in your language. Merlin is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Hebrew, German, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Marathi, Malayalam, Afrikaans, Arabic, Indonesian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s goal is to help you and millions of others to learn about birds. Our nonprofit mission to improve the understanding and protection of birds and nature is made possible by the generosity of Cornell Lab members, supporters, and citizen-science contributors.

The Britain and Ireland pack is available through a partnership with the British Trust for Ornithology. Bird identification help is also available across Europe with the Western Europe pack, Iberian Peninsula, a pack covering the Scandinavian countries and a comprehensive Western Palearctic guide.

Pros and cons of Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab app for iPhone and iPad

Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab app good for

Just started to use this app & so far it has been right on the first try. Its a cool app because now I do not have to sit & wonder what type of bird that is - instead I can confirm it.

I really like this app and so far its worked really well for me. The only thing that I really wish it had was a list of birds Ive seen. It asks you to click on the button "Thats my bird" and it should then put that bird into an ongoing list of bird sightings.

Ive learned and spotted so many different species around my back yard with this app! My bird knowledge has expanded so far beyond just robin, crow & magpie.

I use this app all the time to identify birds I see. I wish there were more ways to search (other than browse and the question-based ID capability). Id like to browse by my region - including identification by song. Keep up the great work.

Easy to use, with 3 simple steps to determine what bird youre searching.

This app is fantastic. Its helped me identify plenty of bird species around the forest near my house. My only suggestion is that I wish there was a way to save "identified bird species" on the app for future reference and to have a collection of the birds Ive identified and where I was when I identified them. Thanks for this super duper app!

Some bad moments

Just downloaded this. But I noticed it does not contain any ptarmigan species ... and we have two: Rock Ptarmigan and Willow Ptarmigan. Also, right on the e-mail page where I saw this app promoted was a photo of an Atlantic Puffin. But guess what? No puffin included in the app! One other thing ... and I am sure there are many others.. it tells me that the American Goldfinch only comes to my area to breed. Nonsense! A flock of 49-50 are at my feeders all winter long ... have been for years. And not just in winter.

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