Basically useless
In my region anyway, the app is for all practical purposes useless. It fails the identity even the most common birds despite good quality recordings. Skip this one.
Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab
Field Guide with Instant ID
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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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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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4.51 out of 5
284 ratings in South Africa
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Great with a flaw
Great app but you really should be able to select and add a bird to your life list from the bird pack search function, without having to go go through the entire identification process.
Awesome App
I started out with Roberts but this app is so much easier to use. Still have Roberts as the information is much more in depth but this app is a winner.
Love it!
I love this app! It’s simple to use and the data is quite accurate!
Brilliant, but…
Absolutely brilliant app that does what it says and does it really well. The sound and picture ID’s work really fast and accurate. But please, add the ability to add a bird to your life list from the Explore Birds section. Right now it seems you can only add a bird after you’ve identified it using the sound or picture ID functions. Please guys! I know what bird I saw, but I didnt take a picture and didnt record the sound. I’d like to add it, but the bird ID section where you describe the bird doesnt find the bird, and I cant add it from the Explore birds list… 😢
Best free iphone app
No other expensive birding app even comes close
Fantastic
Great app for IDing feathered friends. Excellent maps for different regions. Photos are great, very clear. Extensive bird calls. Looking forward to sound ID being available in more regions. Great for amateur and advanced birders
Cannot Use App
After having successfully confirmed and validated my account via the email process, I still get a "your 5 day grace Pruis is over" message and I am thus unable to use the app. Would've ave rated it higher as I was enjoying it whilst I could use it. Such a pity.
Merlin Bird - Excellent bird App
This app is easy and fun to use.
Fantastic App
It’s a fantastic App. As a Bird lover it has made my favourite pastime immensely interesting…now I am able to name these wonderful creatures & I love it 😍😍
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App Info
- Category
- Reference
- Publisher
- Cornell University
- Languages
- Afrikaans, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Danish, Hebrew (modern), English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Malayalam, Marathi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Zulu
- Recent version
- 3.1.1 (1 month ago )
- Released on
- Dec 11, 2013 (10 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, India, France, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Switzerland, Ireland, Belgium, Colombia, South Africa, Turkey, Russia, Poland, China, Chile, Norway, Finland, Taiwan, Italy, Czechia, Austria, Ukraine, Hungary, Japan, Portugal, New Zealand, South Korea, Israel, Argentina, Hong Kong, Romania, Singapore, Ecuador, Peru, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, United Arab Emirates, Belarus, Greece, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Vietnam, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Dominican Republic, Nigeria, Lebanon, Algeria, Azerbaijan
- Last updated
- 3 weeks ago