I have a few birds near my house that I hear almost daily and I would love to learn more about. But obviously Googling a call is difficult. Any tips or ideas for identifying the calls? I’m in the Pacific NW of the US if that helps.

  • panilithium
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    1 year ago

    I would recommend BirdNET which is “a joint project of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Chemnitz University of Technology”. It’s using neural networks and can identify over 3000 species.

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      1 year ago

      BirdNET is very good. it starts recording on booting the app and suggests with probability. You can save soundfiles, get direkt links to wikipedia and can share files with inaturalist or other third party apps. I use it everytime I need to know which bird is singing

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        1 year ago

        BirdNET is great. I was also just recommended Merlin, which does photo ID too. I haven’t had an opportunity to test the sound feature, though.