Bird Identification Apps

Merlin the bird app, previously:Merlin Bird ID (637 points, 7 months ago, 215 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176829Behind the scenes of Sound ID in Merlin – Identify birds using your phone (2021) (235 points, 2 years ago, 51 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38550737<p

Related:Identify the birds you see or hear with Merlin Bird ID - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31361300 - May 2022 (2 comments)All about Birds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22289706 - Feb 2020 (49 comments)See also:Show HN: Learn to identify the

if you like this you will probably also enjoy birdnet:https://birdnet.cornell.edu/

I'd love an API of some sort. I have some birdwatching/tracking ideas that require I can id a bird by sound and Merlin would be the best route if they just let people us it ...

Very interesting. I am starting bird sound and bird ID. Hope this can help. Thanks.

BirdNET is ace, looking foward to building it into our app...Birda[0] (Strava for birdwatching). We are hiring too if any nature loving engineers want to work in conservation - [email protected] (need to be able to get to London once a fortnight)https://birda.org/

I thought it's like a Shazam for bird sings. Record a bird, send it and get the answer what it is.

Someone needs to run high res pics of this through one of the bird recognition phone apps

For that you want to use BirdNet:https://birdnet.cornell.edu/api/https://birdnet.cornell.edu/Merlin is trained on the same source as BirdNet.You can also use the iNaturalist API for visual ids, for what it's worth.https:/&

Long time BirdNET fan, but I used the Merlin app for the first time yesterday and found it much more useful [0] It’ll display multiple bird species at the same time, and highlight which song belongs to which species in real-time. Recommend giving it a shot if you haven’t![0] https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/