Merlin Bird ID

Editor's Review

Ever wondered what bird is singing in your backyard or flying overhead? 🤔 With Merlin Bird ID, the mystery is solved! 🌟 This incredible app, developed by the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology, brings the magic of bird identification right to your fingertips. Powered by eBird, the world’s largest database of bird sightings, sounds, and photos, Merlin is your ultimate guide to the avian world. 🌍

Merlin Bird ID offers four fun and engaging ways to identify birds: answer a few simple questions, upload a photo, record a singing bird, or explore birds in a specific region. 🗺️ Whether you're a beginner or an experienced birder, Merlin has something for everyone. It’s like having a personal birding expert in your pocket! 🧑‍🏫

Why You’ll Love Merlin:

• Expert ID Tips: Learn about the birds you spot with expert tips, range maps, photos, and sounds. 📚
• Personalized Bird of the Day: Discover a new bird species each day, tailored just for you. 🐦
• Customized Bird Lists: Get lists of birds you can find where you live or travel, anywhere in the world! 📍
• Keep Track of Sightings: Build your personal list of the birds you find and share your discoveries with friends. 📝

Merlin's machine learning magic, powered by Visipedia, uses millions of photos and sounds collected by birders at eBird.org and archived in the Macaulay Library. 📸 This allows Merlin to accurately identify birds in photos and sounds, making bird identification easier than ever before. 🪄 Experienced birders curate and annotate sightings, photos, and sounds, ensuring the most accurate results.

Amazing Content: Choose bird packs that contain photos, songs, calls, and identification help for regions all over 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 is committed to conserving the Earth’s biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds and nature. 🦅 Thanks to the generosity of Cornell Lab members, supporters, and citizen-science contributors, Merlin is available for free! 🎁 Download Merlin Bird ID today and start your birding adventure! 🎉

Features

• Identify birds by answering simple questions

• Identify birds by uploading a photo

• Identify birds by recording a singing bird

• Explore birds in any region of the world

• Expert ID tips, maps, photos, and sounds

• Personalized Bird of the Day feature

• Customized lists of birds by location

• Keep track of your bird sightings

• Powered by Visipedia for sound and photo ID

Pros

• Expert tips to build birding skills

• Personalized Bird of the Day feature

• Customized bird lists for any location

• Keep track of your bird sightings easily

• Powered by machine learning for accuracy

Cons

• Requires bird packs for specific regions

• Accuracy relies on user-submitted data