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(CORNELL) — It’s an almost universal feeling: the thrill of hearing a mysterious new bird song. And it’s usually followed up by the question, “What was that bird?” Schoharie County Eagle Trail is a ...

The Photo ID function of Merlin now includes more than 10,000 species, according to the most recent information on the eBird website. When you ask Merlin to identify your photograph, it looks for ...

Cornell Lab for Ornithology plans data linkup between app and population monitoring on eBird platform The Merlin bird ID app will allow users to feed real-time bird identifications into one of the ...

Enter Merlin! It’s not the magician from the Legend of King Arthur, but it has a similar aura of magical power. Merlin Bird ID is a tool, honed by artificial intelligence, to diagnose the species of ...

A chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita). The Merlin app uses machine learning to provide an almost instantaneous sound-identification service for birdsong.Photograph: Andyworks/Getty The Merlin bird ID ...