I was sitting in solitude earlier this summer in an Adirondack chair in my backyard, when I realized I wasn’t as alone as I’d thought.

'Really good at identifying birds by sound' Merlin's Sound ID can identify 1,054 bird species. It's based on the Macaulay Library, which contains 2 million recorded bird songs from around the ...

Those birds sound nothing alike, so I wondered what confused the app. ... The Merlin Bird ID app can identify more than 1,000 species of bird by listening through your phone.

I ran Merlin’s “Sound ID” feature for half an hour. At first, the usual suspects for my neighborhood outside of Boston popped up: robins and blue jays, ubiquitous throughout the Eastern U.S. and ...

As the skies of the Snake River Canyon fill with newly hatched birds, we are reminded of the wildlife that also calls the beautiful state of Idaho home. Nestled just outside of Boise, the Morley ...

Bird sounds that always make me chuckle are those of the red-breasted nuthatch. I won’t call them songs because they don’t meet most people’s idea of “song.” The most common ...

MENAN, Idaho — A strain of bird flu wiped out most of a local man's flock, and now the state is quarantining his property. Andrew Woods, of Menan, tells EastIdahoNews.com his flock of 63 birds ...

Bird flu has been circulating among cattle in the U.S. after the disease cropped up at a Texas farm in March. In California, ...

I was sitting in solitude earlier this summer in an Adirondack chair in my backyard, when I realized I wasn't as alone as I'd thought. Thanks to the app I' ...

There are over 700 species that Merlin’s Sound ID can identify in the U.S. alone. And in the weeks I've used it, I’ve noticed more than just birds. CONNECTING WITH PEOPLE, TOO ...

As fall migration arrives, apps that ID birds by sound have taken off September 7, 2023 at 8:30 p.m. by TRACEE M. HERBAUGH / The Associated Press ...