Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab

Field Guide with Instant ID

Published by: Cornell University
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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.
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Awesome App

Ramanemani on

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It’s such a handy app to have for bird watching and identification. Simply love it.

Incredible, motivating resource!

stealthytato on

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While I miss the previous UIUX quite a lot, Merlin is quite a magical service. It’s helped me appreciate the world of birds around me so much deeply, and ignited a fondness for birding which I’m confident will stay with me through my life. Awesome!

Excellent for bird identification…

RamerP on

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This has helped me learn better about birds and have taken away all the trouble I had in identifying birds.

Download it now its the best

TejasPara on

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Hands down The Best out there

Must have

NethAnt on

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Just an incredible app. I’ve used it in Costa Rica curaçao and Panama. Always accurate. Very grateful.

Shazam, but for identifying birds

scotchaholic on

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This is the app I didn’t know I needed in my life. Absolutely loving it. You need to develop an Apple Watch version as well, for during my morning jogs when I don’t carry my phone.

One of the best apps ever

AmateurLearner34 on

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For anyone even mildly interested in birds, all the way to seasoned veteran, this app does it all. The visual identification guide us very intuitive. The sound id feature is just incredible.

Amazing to bird watchers - amateurs and professionals

Akrita Kalra on

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I could not have got started in bird watching without this app to guide me

Excellent

ram _स्पीड@123 on

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this is very helpful cool app

Excellent tool

Ashok Mysore on

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App very helpful in ID and logging the birds. For me photo ID is a big plus. Recommend Merlin app to every birder or bird photographers.

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Cornell University
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Afrikaans, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew (modern), Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Zulu
Recent release
3.5 (1 month ago )
Released on
Dec 11, 2013 (11 years ago )
Last Updated
1 week ago
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