What's that bird? Merlin Bird ID helps you solve the mystery in 5 questions, or with a photo of a bird.
First, Merlin asks you a few simple questions. Then, almost like magic, it reveals the list of birds that best match your description. Pick your bird, then delve into more photos, sounds, and ID tips about your bird!
If you have a photo, Merlin can help there as well. Take a photo, choose from your camera roll, or snap the viewfinder of your zoom camera, and Merlin's powerful AI will suggest an identification almost instantly.
Merlin is fun and easy to use—whether you’re curious about a bird you’ve seen once or you’re hoping to identify every bird that comes to your feeder. The answers are waiting for you with this free field guide app from the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Features
• Created for birders and bird watchers of every level, Merlin identifies the 3,000+ most common bird species of the continental United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America and Europe. • Merlin will now identify a photo using powerful deep learning algorithms. Select your photo, tell Merlin where and when you took it, and you'll see a short list of suggested identifications. • Bird packs available for United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Brazil with more coming soon. • Explore birds by location and date with a list of species seen in the area. • Intelligent results. No more scanning through hundreds of possibilities! Merlin shows the birds near you that fit your description. • Customized location and date tools generate best answers for your neighborhood and time of year. • Powered by eBird to deliver the most accurate results based on millions of sightings from bird watchers across North America. • Enjoy more than 15,000 photos of birds, including males, females, and juveniles. • Learn ID tips from Cornell Lab of Ornithology experts. • Listen to beautiful bird sounds, including songs and calls for each species from the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. • It’s all free! The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s goal is to help you and millions of others to learn about birds.
Merlin is the most advanced bird guide app available, and is expanding to new regions of the world.
••• Bird Packs ••• Merlin Bird ID currently includes bird identification help for the United States with regional packs for the: Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Rocky Mountains, Southwest, Texas and Oklahoma, Alaska, and West Coast.
Canada is covered by Eastern Canada and Western Canada packs.
Mexico bird identification is available for each region of the country.
Central America packs include Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
South America packs include the Medellín, Bogota and Cali regions of Colombia, and southeastern Brazil.
Bird identification help is also available for Europe with our Britain and Ireland pack, a Western Europe pack, Iberian Peninsula, and a pack covering the Scandinavian countries.
These packs make Merlin the perfect pocket Field Guide to North American Birds, Bird Guide to Hawaii, Bird Guide to Mexico, Bird Guide to Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, Bird Guide to Colombia, Bird Guide to Brazil, Bird Guide to Europe, Bird Guide to Spain, Bird Guide to Portugal, Bird Guide to Britain, and Bird Guide to Scandinavia.
••• About Photo ID ••• Powered by Visipedia, Merlin Photo ID uses computer vision and deep learning technology to identify birds in photos. Merlin learns to recognize bird species based on training sets of millions of photos from birders at eBird.org. When using Photo ID, enter the date and location where you took the photo; those clues improve Merlin’s accuracy by helping it focus on the species you most likely encountered there.
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1.5.2
We periodically release updates with small bug fixes and improvements based on your feedback.
1.5.1
Find new life birds! If you use eBird to manage your life list, you can quickly discover birds that you have never seen before. Open Explore Birds, select a location and date from the filter panel (upper right button), and then you can toggle on and off the birds you have already added to your eBird life list.
1.5
New: eBird Life List integration We are excited to announce the new eBird Life List integration in Merlin! Sign in with your Cornell Lab account to quickly view your world life list of species you have submitted to eBird.org.
This is the first step in a series of releases that will allow you to create and manage your life list in Merlin. Tap in to the full power of the eBird system where you can save and store your sightings by signing up for a free account through the app. Submit your sightings at eBird.org or with the eBird Mobile app to see your list in Merlin grow today!
Also in this version: – link from eBird mobile app is more stable
1.4.2
We have a small update for you with several tweaks to make finding birds in the app easier, including: • Search bar is now always available at the top of the Explore Birds screen • You can now search by scientific name if you have scientific names toggled on in settings
Additionally: • It should now be easier to select the common name language that makes sense based on your phones settings. Options in your language will sort to the top. • Updated some app labels for English UK users.
1.4.1
Tweaks and fixes to keep Merlin flying smoothly and to support some fun things in the future!
1.4
Introducing Bar Charts! New Merlin bar charts let you explore migration anywhere in the world. You can find the bar charts by opening up Explore Birds, and using the filter options (button in top right corner) to select the location and date you want to explore under Likely Birds.
More info: Bar charts are an exciting new way to view how common birds are at a location during different times of year. While some birds are common year round, you may only see some species during the winter, during the breeding season, or as they pass through during migration. The bar charts use eBird sighting information to let you know at a glance how common each species is for every week of the year. This is very helpful for identifying birds, or finding birds you want to see.
1.3.9
# Select a location from a map Choose any location in the world via a map, making it easier to select any area in the world.
# Portuguese language support If your device is set to Portuguese, labels and buttons will appear in Portuguese.
1.3.8
Simpler species search in Explore Birds - Can't remember where the hyphens go in Bare-throated Tiger-Heron? No problem, Merlin search now helps you find it even if you put in a space. If you use 4-letter codes for quick entry in eBird, you can also use those shortcuts to find a bird in Merlin.
More tweaks to support iPhone X
1.3.7
SWIPE TO NEXT SPECIES When you are looking at bird info, swipe left and right to move between species • quickly move between species to compare range maps, songs, images, and ID text
SHARE YOUR ID After you identify a bird, tap "This is my bird!" and a new Share action is available to to share that successful ID via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, text message, email, etc.
1.3.6
New: Sound player with spectrograms! Spectrograms provide a visual way to read and learn songs. You can read a spectrogram in a similar fashion as sheet music: • lines going up and down to indicate pitch • line gets darker to indicate volume • time is represented horizontally
Update your packs to get the new spectrograms.
This version also includes tweaks and fixes for iOS 11 and iPhone X.
1.3.5
Taxonomy update 2017 Added updated information for Cassia Crossbill, Hen Harrier, Great Gray Shrike, Rivioli's Hummingbird, and more
More common name languages Support added to see common names in many additional languages
1.3.4
3D Touch Quick actions If you have an iPhone 6s or newer, you can 3D Touch the Merlin Bird ID icon to get quick access to Photo ID and Birds Nearby.
Pack update notifications Did you know we've added nearly a thousand new species in Merlin over the past year? Many of those are available as updates to packs you have already downloaded, but if you don't check the Bird Pack screen, you'll never seen them! Merlin will now alert you when a new update is available.
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Also includes many other 1.3+ updates • EXPLORE BIRDS feature By popular request, Merlin now helps you discover other birds around you. The updated Explore Birds screen can now be filtered by any location and date, or a Bird Pack you have installed. Explore the birds that have been reported around you, whether you are birding at home, or on a trip.
• Sort by Most Likely The Explore Birds list can now be filtered by how often each bird is reported in your area of interest. The most commonly reported birds show up at the top, giving you a better idea of species you should be looking for.
• Sort by Likely Birds within Families Explore the birds of an area in a new way. This option groups the birds into the familiar families view, then sorts the birds within each group by how frequently they are reported, making it easier than ever to find the bird you are looking for.
Sort your list by Most Likely, and then search for “gull” or “sparrow” to see a list of the gulls or sparrows sorted by how common they are. This is another handy way to identify your mystery bird.
• Location shortcut When you are using the Likely Birds feature, just tap the location button in the bottom right corner of the screen to quickly update the bird list to you current location.
1.3.3
Merlin Bird ID 1.3.3 is a small maintenance release with a few new tweaks. Check them out and let us know what you think!
NEW - Sort by Likely Birds within Families Explore the birds of an area in a new way. This option groups the birds into the familiar families view, then sorts the birds within each group by how frequently they are reported, making it easier than ever to find the bird you are looking for.
NEW - Search Bird Packs by name The pack list is growing, this will help you find the pack to install for you upcoming summer vacation.
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Also includes many other 1.3+ updates EXPLORE BIRDS feature By popular request, Merlin now helps you discover other birds around you. The updated Explore Birds screen can now be filtered by any location and date, or a Bird Pack you have installed. Explore the birds that have been reported around you, whether you are birding at home, or on a trip.
Sort by Most Likely The Explore Birds list can now be filtered by how often each bird is reported in your area of interest. The most commonly reported birds show up at the top, giving you a better idea of species you should be looking for.
Sort your list by Most Likely, and then search for “gull” or “sparrow” to see a list of the gulls or sparrows sorted by how common they are. This is another handy way to identify your mystery bird.
New location shortcut When you are using the Likely Birds feature, just tap the location button in the bottom right corner of the screen to quickly update the bird list to you current location.
1.3.2
New in 1.3.2
New location shortcut When you are using the Likely Birds feature, just tap the location button in the bottom right corner of the screen to quickly update the bird list to you current location.
Improved date selector There is now a new option in the date selector– Today. The date (and the bird lists) shown will always stay current when Today is selected!
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1.3 Release notes New - EXPLORE BIRDS feature By popular request, Merlin now helps you discover other birds around you. The updated Explore Birds screen can now be filtered by any location and date, or a Bird Pack you have installed. Explore the birds that have been reported around you, whether you are birding at home, or on a trip.
New - Sort by Most Likely The Explore Birds list can now be filtered by how often each bird is reported in your area of interest. The most commonly reported birds show up at the top, giving you a better idea of species you should be looking for.
Pro tip: Sort your list by Most Likely, and then search for “gull” or “sparrow” to see a list of the gulls or sparrows sorted by how common they are. This is another handy way to identify your mystery bird.
1.3.1 Improved Photo ID results We found a few ways to improve the results from Photo ID, particularly if you are setting a location. If you haven't tried out Photo ID yet, we encourage you to give it a shot. You can snap a photo of the bird with your phone, or take a photo of the back of your camera view finder, or your computer screen, however it is easiest for you to get a photo on your phone.
1.3.1
New in 1.3.1 Improved Photo ID results We found a few ways to improve the results from Photo ID, particularly if you are setting a location. If you haven't tried out Photo ID yet, we encourage you to give it a shot. You can snap a photo of the bird with your phone, or take a photo of the back of your camera view finder, or your computer screen, however it is easiest for you to get a photo on your phone.
----------------------- 1.3 Release notes New - EXPLORE BIRDS feature By popular request, Merlin now helps you discover other birds around you. The updated Explore Birds screen can now be filtered by any location and date, or a Bird Pack you have installed. Explore the birds that have been reported around you, whether you are birding at home, or on a trip.
New - Sort by Most Likely The Explore Birds list can now be filtered by how often each bird is reported in your area of interest. The most commonly reported birds show up at the top, giving you a better idea of species you should be looking for.
Pro tip: Sort your list by Most Likely, and then search for “gull” or “sparrow” to see a list of the gulls or sparrows sorted by how common they are. This is another handy way to identify your mystery bird.
1.3
New - EXPLORE BIRDS feature By popular request, Merlin now helps you discover other birds around you. The updated Explore Birds screen can now be filtered by any location and date, or a Bird Pack you have installed. Explore the birds that have been reported around you, whether you are birding at home, or on a trip.
New - Sort by Most Likely The Explore Birds list can now be filtered by how often each bird is reported in your area of interest. The most commonly reported birds show up at the top, giving you a better idea of species you should be looking for.
Pro tip: Sort your list by Most Likely, and then search for “gull” or “sparrow” to see a list of the gulls or sparrows sorted by how common they are. This is another handy way to identify your mystery bird.
1.2.2
Toggle scientific name on and off Improvements to Photo ID
1.2.1
Merlin 1.2.1 includes many behind-the-scenes tweaks and fixes that pave the way for new features and Bird Packs in the near future including: - Spanish language support - new map legend to support upcoming Bird Packs
1.2 THE PHOTO ID UPDATE We partnered with computer vision scientists at Cornell Tech and Caltech to bring you a new way to identify your mystery birds. Take a photo, load one from your camera roll, or even snap a shot of the viewfinder of your camera, and Merlin will show you a list of suggestions, complete with the photos, audio, ID text and maps you expect from Merlin
1.2
THE PHOTO ID UPDATE We partnered with computer vision scientists at Cornell Tech and Caltech to bring Merlin users a new way to identify your mystery bird. Take a photo, or load one from your camera roll, and Merlin will show you a list of suggestions, complete with the photos, sounds, ID text and maps you expect from Merlin.
1.1
THE BIRD PACK UPDATE • Download just the birds for your region, reducing the size of the app • Initial app download size significantly reduced
Additional updates • Search Merlin birds via Spotlight • Scientific name shown in photo gallery • General improvements
1.0.4
• Improved identification results • Updated range maps • Download size reduced by 150 MB • Option to have bird names display in Spanish, Portuguese, or French • General improvements
1.0.3
• Full content and features for 50 additional species for a total of 400. • Network connection error message occurs less frequently.
1.0.2
• Full content and features for 65 additional species. • Sounds play aloud even when mute switch is engaged. • Improvements in algorithm performance.
1.0.1
• Improvements in algorithm performance. • Added more photos, sounds, and range maps. • Bug fixes.
1.0
バージョン 1.5.2
We periodically release updates with small bug fixes and improvements based on your feedback.
Excelente aplicación muy completa para los amantes de las aves, listado completo de aves por país y región con sus respectivas fotos y cantos, incluye opción de identificar las aves que has fotografiado!
Excelente aplicación muy completa para los amantes de las aves, listado completo de aves por país y región con sus respectivas fotos y cantos, incluye opción de identificar las aves que has fotografiado!
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Awesome
This app is very useful to determine unknown birds. It's so fun. Thank you.
Penguinese
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Awesome
This app is very useful to determine unknown birds. It's so fun. Thank you.
