Similar category: Merlin Bird ID [1]. Uses audio to identify the birds around you.

bobbiechen 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm a big fan of Merlin and learning more about its development changed my perspective on software development! I wrote about that here: https://digitalseams.com/blog/what-birdsong-and-backends-can...

	▲	bikelang 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks for sharing this. I love Merlin but never knew how they got it to be so good. Blood, sweat, and tears - of course - as everything actually valuable and useful requires.

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upcoming-sesame 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Merlin is great for identifying birds, but I could never understand how to just post the information to the community for them to verify the observation. Compared to Seek / iNaturalist I find the uploading process complicated and I still have no idea how to do it.

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kiproping 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's Merlin and then there's Birdnet too https://birdnet.cornell.edu/. Both by Cornell.

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dunham 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I've been using birdnet, but it seems to want an internet connection to do the identification and sometimes that is dicey when there is a bird that I want to identify. (Also birds seem to shut up around the time you get the app open.)

I'm going to give Merlin a try - the app has UI to download the network for offline use.

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rurp 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Requiring an internet connection for a nature app is absurd. As annoying as it is I get why a big tech company like Google fails at this sort of thing, many of their employees probably never leave a city and so the products always work well for them. But a nature app has no excuse, normal usage will get blocked by that all the time.

	▲	meta-meta an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That's what Merlin is for but it's a ~450mb install. BirdNet is only a ~30MB install and birds are everywhere, so what's wrong with having an online option for most people who spend most of their time within range of a cel tower?

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tejtm an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

birdnet pi or go run the model locally with an option to push observations back to Cornell

https://www.birdweather.com/birdnetpi

https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go

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derwiki 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Aaand if you like birds, Listers documentary is a lot of fun https://youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo

	▲	JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The funny thing is I got into birds because of the app. I hike alone often. Identifying the bird and then challenging myself to identify it correctly from memory going forward (before double checking with the app) is a fun game that draws one into the environment. Then, once you remember the bird (or, in my case, whatever nickname I came up with) you start learning and remembering facts about the bird.
	▲	ajkjk 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Even if you don't like birds... It's one of my favorite things I've ever watched.
	▲	bix6 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Best movie of the year hands down