Ornithology (Bird) Thread

[Dinadan]

Tom, I'm a Merlin user. Every once in a while it will give a false ID but 99% of the time its right. And it hears better than me. And helps with figuring out what I'm looking at as well.

I should give it a try. I have a hard time hearing the high pitched bird calls.

[Paladin]

My daughter uses it with great results. I doubt it would work on my old flip phone.

Ray

[Mumbleypeg]

Merlin user here. It’s great and has taught me how to recognize the songs of many birds. I have heard them but previously never knew what bird was making that sound. The frustration sometimes is sighting the birds it hears. Sometimes they are way up in tops of trees or in bushes and therefore hard to see. The app helps with that too because in the description of each bird it often tells where to look for them. Good binoculars help!

Some other features of the app is with some birds it’s more than just identifying their songs and calls. It can identify different woodpackers by their unique pecking sounds, and hummingbirds by the sound of their wings’ humming rhythms.

In the app you can easily set up and keep your personal “life list” of birds you identify. So far I’m up to 48 different species, all without leaving home. Found one new one, the Red-eyed Vireo, just yesterday. The app prompted me to “look up. They’re usually high up in the tree tops.”

Ken