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ESSENTIAL OVERLAND APP: With Merlin Bird ID you can hear, identify sounds of the forest
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Is that the tweet of a titmouse? Or the chirp of a chickadee?
After you download the Merlin Bird ID app, you can use your smartphone to identify sounds and match them to the birds in trees nearby and soaring through the air.
“Sound ID in the Merlin Bird ID app is currently available for 1,382 species of birds,” according to the Cornell Lab website.
“Sound ID listens to the birds around you and shows real-time suggestions for who’s singing. Compare your recording to the songs and calls in Merlin to confirm what you heard.”
You can also take pictures of birds and the app will try and identify them as well.
The app is supported by the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology, whose motto is: “Together, let’s embark on a lifelong journey to enjoy, understand, and protect birds and the natural world.”
Avid ornithologists on my Facebook feed say that Merlin only makes suggestions, and you should be careful identifying species.
— Donn Friedman/Journal Outside
