AI boosts bird sound identification accuracy

In a study conducted at the University of Helsinki, AI was trained to classify bird sounds with increasing accuracy. The ...

9 Best Free Apps For Identifying The Birds In Your Yard

Heard a chirp or spotted a flutter? These free apps identify backyard birds by sight or sound — no binoculars or in-depth ...
Discover Wildlife

Buzzing chainsaws, clattering machine guns and metallic hammering: 7 of the weirdest bird noises on Earth

In a clip from David Attenborough 's 1998 BBC TV series Life of Birds, a lyrebird imitates a chainsaw, kookaburra and car ...
Inverse

I Can't Stop Using This Free App That Uses AI to Identify Birds

Other than cars, the thing I hear most often at home is birds. I live in Southern California, in a relatively suburban neighborhood, outside of an even more metropolitan downtown. I don’t get the ...
Cult of Mac

Easily identify the birds you hear with Merlin Bird ID [Awesome Apps]

Spring is here, and the air is full of birdsong. The Merlin Bird ID app tells you what type of birds you’re hearing … plus it’s quick, easy and free. With this software from the Cornell Lab of ...
Albuquerque Journal

ESSENTIAL OVERLAND APP: With Merlin Bird ID you can hear, identify sounds of the forest

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 ...
Berkshire Eagle

Even the magic Merlin bird-identifying app makes mistakes

When I hear a bird song I don’t recognize and Merlin gives me a common bird for the ID, I can listen on Sibley’s app. I run through the many examples for this bird. Note well: When you do this — open ...