It’s funny how they don’t include the most populous bird, the chicken. The cognitive dissonance is probably too strong.
I don’t understand this comment. Are you implying omitting the chicken is some sort of conspiracy?
birds arent real
Cornell's Interactive Wall of Birds
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#12If you haven't tried it their Merlin app is pretty fantastic.
It's Pokemon for old people, I love it and use it at least once a day. Personal best for a dog walk - 23 different birds, personal best for sitting in the garden drinking my morning coffee - 17 birds. My family got a little tired of me using it on holiday in Portugal, but in my defence there were a lot of new birds I needed to add to my collection.
Nice! I haven't tried Merlin, but I been meaning to set it up in the yard.
I've been using Seek on my phone, which is part of inatural. Similar thing, but pictures and most life, not just birds. That is totally Pokemon for non-pokemon peeps.. gotta bust out my phone every time I find something I haven't 'caught' yet.
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#14The visual map that expands to short descriptions with the sounds, gives me nostalgic memories for Microsoft Encarta.
Is there anything as fun and interactive that is available today that could be used by kids? Wikipedia is great for adults but it’s just too much information and it’s not packaged in short and visual focus of Microsoft Encarta of the old times. The other cool thing of MS Encarta is it wasn’t too big, it was finite, you could exhaust one topic and then go explore something else, it wasn’t infinite rabbit hole.
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#15If you haven't tried it their Merlin app is pretty fantastic.
I've used Merlin for a while and I'm still impressed by Merlin's sound identification, it continues to inspire me. I wrote about it last year: https://digitalseams.com/blog/what-birdsong-and-backends-can...
Wow. I just tried it and it worked like magic. Thanks for mentioning that.
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#16If you haven't tried it their Merlin app is pretty fantastic.
Highly highly recommend. I use it at least once a week and have done so for several years. My daughter loves scrolling through all the local birds and playing the sounds they make.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology studies wild birds.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology hasn't been to the island of Kauai
There are plenty of semi-wild and semi-domesticated chickens in the Caribbean and Florida. I still want to eat the rooster who woke me up from a great dream at 3am.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology studies wild birds.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology hasn't been to the island of Kauai
The description of Gallus Gallus ("Red Junglefowl" but also described as the "original chicken") mentions it being an introduced species in Hawaii (but also that it's interbred with "feral and domestic chickens" so it's hard to identify specifically.)
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#19The visual map that expands to short descriptions with the sounds, gives me nostalgic memories for Microsoft Encarta. Is there anything as fun and interactive that is available today that could be used by kids? Wikipedia is great for adults but it’s just too much information and it’s not packaged in short and visual focus of Microsoft Encarta of the old times. The other cool thing of MS Encarta is it wasn’t too big,…
> gives me nostalgic memories for Microsoft Encarta
Those were the days !
A bit like Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? which used to ship with a physical almanac alongside the game disks.
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#20Neat concept but looks vibecoded/authored by someone who does not know web programming. Many HTML and JS errors. Code is a mess. jQuery, angular, document.write, modernizr. Why?
Could be done at 5% of codebase size, with cleaner code, no var, better error handling ($http calls use .success(...), no zero .error()/.catch() handlers).