![]() So it's really accessible for anyone who's just curious enough to figure out what species are in their neck of the woods. If you're hearing bird sounds, there's that recording feature where you can get those answers to what birds are nearby. If you just open up Merlin and answer a few simple questions about the colour, the size of the bird, Merlin will give you a list of choices based on your date and location. Merlin is there for you in those moments where you see something and you're just not sure, because you don't need to have any answers to begin with. #birdphotography /ajbRqQxgMt- could an app like this demystify the world of birds that you love so much? If you’ve photographed a mystery #bird, Merlin can not only tell you what it is with Photo ID, it adds it to your life list! Merlin saves your sightings in one place, for you to review with sounds, photos, range maps, and ID tips at any time. If you got wind, if you got a loud environment around, you might be dropping the accuracy, but if you get closer to the bird without scaring it, that's going to boost your accuracy as well. And then it's going to let you know what species are vocalising right as you're listening.Īccuracy is about 90-per-cent in the kind of experimental tests. And when you go out in the field, circumstances are a little different. So when you're using the app, you're going to see a picture scrolling across with the bird sounds that are in that environment at that time. Learn more about the birds you love through audio clips, stunning photography, and in-depth text Audubon Bird Guide App The Audubon Bird Guide is a free and complete field guide to more than 800 species of North American birds, right in your pocket. When you've recorded the sound, it will essentially convert that sound into an image and then look for all the little differences in that image and give you an answer in real time. But explain what's actually going on when I record the sound of the bird? OK, explain how that all works, because I've used the app. And we're kind of converting that sound into an image, and using the computer vision technology that's available to us today to help you identify birds in the field. We have examples of what birds sounds like from around the world, then we can train the machine to figure out that bird that you're hearing. Merlin is essentially an app that's been trained to identify bird songs because we have this archive, the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. ![]() This is like magic for those of us who love the sound of birds. ![]() ![]() Jessie Barry is the project leader for the app, and program manager at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library. She spoke with Matt Galloway on The Current about it. Here is part of that conversation. It's currently available for Android and iOS devices. The app was developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and launched in 2014. The Merlin Bird ID app can work its magic to identify about 400 different birds by their tune, and that audio feature was just added in June. If you're wondering what that chirping noise you hear is, but you're not a bird expert, wonder no more: there's an app for that. ![]()
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