This app is awesome. The only minor complaint I have is that it does not handle long recordings well. For example, I left my phone near the window for an hour to identify as many birds as possible and the recording cannot finalize properly due to (supposedly) huge size of the produced file.
Merlin Bird ID
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#82This app is awesome. The only minor complaint I have is that it does not handle long recordings well. For example, I left my phone near the window for an hour to identify as many birds as possible and the recording cannot finalize properly due to (supposedly) huge size of the produced file.
WhoBird is much better for this, as it's realtime and processed on-device. It stores a log of each bird identified along with the percentage match, and can optionally store a clip of the audio that triggered the match.
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#83iNaturalist is yet another nice app
And for birdsong there is specifically BirdNET, operating on a similar principle as this.
I might check out Merlin specifically just for the ID wizard, for raptors which are pain to photograph and are best IDd by shilouette.
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#84I love this app. I use it all the time.
But I do have a complaint, that you can't upload an image via the web from your PC. For those of us who use a DSLR for our birding photos, the UX to have to transfer images to our phone to send them through the app is really painful.
It isn't the end of the world. It just makes me ID my birds in other ways. But it would be nice to provide non-mobile UX options.
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#85I normally use BirdNet app for birdsong, and it looks like that is from Cornell as well. Does Merlin use the same tech under the covers?
I don’t believe so. Merlin is newer and uses a different architecture. BirdNet uses a CNN and its atomic sound units are 3 seconds long: Merlin can do real-time ID on continuous audio and I think uses a hybrid system.
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#86This app is awesome. The only minor complaint I have is that it does not handle long recordings well. For example, I left my phone near the window for an hour to identify as many birds as possible and the recording cannot finalize properly due to (supposedly) huge size of the produced file.
WhoBird is much better for this, as it's realtime and processed on-device. It stores a log of each bird identified along with the percentage match, and can optionally store a clip of the audio that triggered the match.
Is WhoBird Android-only? Not finding it in the iPhone App Store?
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#87I love this app. I use it all the time. But I do have a complaint, that you can't upload an image via the web from your PC. For those of us who use a DSLR for our birding photos, the UX to have to transfer images to our phone to send them through the app is really painful. It isn't the end of the world. It just makes me ID my birds in other ways. But it would be nice to provide non-mobile UX options.
I also use a dslr for my bird pics. When it comes time to id the bird I take a picture of my monitor and feed that to the app. The app doesn’t need my 48MP images to do the job. The screenshot is fine.
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#88I love this app. I use it all the time. But I do have a complaint, that you can't upload an image via the web from your PC. For those of us who use a DSLR for our birding photos, the UX to have to transfer images to our phone to send them through the app is really painful. It isn't the end of the world. It just makes me ID my birds in other ways. But it would be nice to provide non-mobile UX options.
I also use a dslr for my bird pics. When it comes time to id the bird I take a picture of my monitor and feed that to the app. The app doesn’t need my 48MP images to do the job. The screenshot is fine.
Clever. I like it, and will definitely try that. Thanks!
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#90Loving these kind of apps :-)
I personally use WhoBird, which runs complete local on your android device, so it works also when you don't have internet and is available on fdroid (https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.whobird/).
Will give merlin a shot as well to see how it compares