Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab app for iPhone and iPad

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Developer: Cornell University

Free

Current version: 3.5, last update: 2 months ago
First release : 11 Dec 2013
App size: 273.83 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.
• Discover a new bird species each day with your own personalized Bird of the Day
• Get customized lists of birds you can find where you live or travel - anywhere in the world!
• Keep track of your sightings—build your personal list of the birds you find

MACHINE LEARNING MAGIC
• Powered by Visipedia, Merlin Sound ID and Photo ID uses machine 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.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s mission is to interpret and conserve the Earth’s biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds and nature. We are able to offer Merlin for free thanks to the generosity of Cornell Lab members, supporters, and citizen-science contributors.

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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