Developed by the Cornell Lab for Ornithology, the Merlin bird identification app has details about more than 10,000 species. It also includes a photo ID tab and a sound ID tab. This spring I am using ...

For seasoned bird-watchers, apps like Merlin have transformed their hobby. Rick Marsi recalls the hard-wrought triumph of matching mnemonic songs.

Identify bird songs, ... Merlin Bird ID has a sound identification function, which is available for 1,382 bird species. “In my opinion, it is 95%-97% accurate,” Wilkins said.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology offers the Merlin Bird ID app for free. New app can identify 458 bird species by their songs - Duluth News Tribune | News, weather, and sports from Duluth, Minnesota ...

That included cedar waxwing, a bird with a high, thin song, difficult to hear. I’ve seen that species out back, so I probably should believe Merlin’s impressive call at a distance of about 100 ...

Merlin Bird ID is more than just a sound identification app, though; it’s the result of tens of thousands of bird watchers and citizen scientists submitting over a million avian audio recordings ...

Terra is designed to help, by continuously identifying birds via their songs. Created by New Jersey-based naturalists Scott Whittle, Mike Lanzone and Casey Halverson, Terra consists of both a ...

No more bird songs, no more brain-wracking – only the contemplative whine of mosquitoes. I lurch forward with the confused notion of penetrating the bird’s vine-choked stronghold.