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Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab 4+
Field Guide with Instant ID
Cornell University
Designed for iPhone
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- Free
iPhone Screenshots
Description
What's that bird? Ask Merlin—the world’s leading app for birds. Just like magic, Merlin Bird ID will help you solve the mystery.
Merlin Bird ID helps you identify birds you see and hear. Merlin is unlike any other bird app—it's powered by eBird, the world’s largest database of bird sightings, sounds, and photos.
Merlin offers four fun ways to identify birds. Answer a few simple questions, upload a photo, record a singing bird, or explore birds in a region.
Whether you’re curious about a bird you’ve seen once or you’re hoping to identify every bird you can find, the answers are waiting for you with this free app from the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE MERLIN
• Expert ID tips, range maps, photos, and sounds help you learn about the birds you spot and build birding skills.
• Discover a new bird species each day with your own personalized Bird of the Day
• Get customized lists of birds you can find where you live or travel - anywhere in the world!
• Keep track of your sightings—build your personal list of the birds you find
MACHINE LEARNING MAGIC
• Powered by Visipedia, Merlin Sound ID and Photo ID uses machine learning to identify birds in photos and sounds. Merlin learns to recognize bird species based on training sets of millions of photos and sounds collected by birders at eBird.org, archived in the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
• Merlin delivers the most accurate results thanks to experienced birders, who curate and annotate sightings, photos, and sounds, who are the true magic behind Merlin.
AMAZING CONTENT
• Choose bird packs that contain photos, songs, and calls, and identification help for anywhere in 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’s mission is to interpret and conserve the Earth’s biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds and nature. We are able to offer Merlin for free thanks to the generosity of Cornell Lab members, supporters, and citizen-science contributors.
What’s New
Version 3.1.1
This update includes a few improvements and bug fixes, including:
- New Ukrainian translations now available
- Fixed a bug that didn’t allow saving sightings from Sound ID or Explore
- Formatting updates on the Bird Packs screens
- Fixed translations for range maps
Ratings and Reviews
Fantastic!
Tha app was great since the beginning. But with the sound ID it became amazing! Chapeau to everyone who worked on its development. I tested it for last few days. It is quick and precise in most cases and frank - telling you “this is the best match we have found”. Another great thing - when the identified bird repeats its song or sound the Sound ID tells you “hey,this is it again!” by highlighting the name of the bird identified on the list. Wonderful learning possibility. You can use the Sound ID offline - another great thing. Thank you for Merlin!
importing sounds and photos... so coool
Amazing app...you can even import a sound file into the app (taken e.g. on your watch while running in the nature) The same with photos from a different devices. Incredibly broadens your possibilities as a birdwatcher. I use it almost every day and it helped me identify species I had no idea lived nearby
Necessary app in my life!
I found this app just 4 weeks ago and my life is now more beautiful!! I found out the birds pretty quickly and when I play the recording, birds noticed that and then they respond their voices! I’m simply amazed! 😍👏🦜
App Privacy
The developer, Cornell University, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- Usage Data
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Cornell University
- Size
- 114.5 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Danish, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Zulu
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Cornell University
- Price
- Free