The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has the solution: the free Merlin Bird ID app, designed to answer the simple question, “What’s that bird?”
“Merlin is really focused on helping people easily identify their first bird,” said Drew Weber, Merlin project coordinator at the Cornell Lab. “You just answer five simple questions about date and location, plus the bird’s size, color and behavior. Or you can ask Merlin to identify a bird in a photo. In either case, Merlin lists the likely birds based on what’s been reported in your area at that time.”
Developed using artificial intelligence techniques and the millions of bird images archived in Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library, Merlin Bird ID has learned to identify thousands of birds from photographs.
