Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab Reviews – Page 6
5/5 rating based on 450 reviews. Read all reviews for Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab for iPhone.
Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab is free iOS app published by Cornell University
Great app
Srredbeard
This app is easy to use and very accurate at helping to identify birds. I have been really impressed with its ability to listen using the microphone and then listing the birds it hears. I have never found it to be wrong. It may have taken awhile but I have always eventually seen the birds it heard. The app’s ability to identify birds using a picture is stunning. I have had it identify birds from texts people have sent me or had it look at the image on the back of my camera. Either way the accuracy is amazing. The app makes me look like I know what I am doing. I now track my birding adventures using eBird and I use Merlin to identify and/or verify identities. Overall an outstanding app.
Birdwatching enhanced 10-fold!!
life is good with birds
This app makes my view out my kitchen window at my feeders even more special! Love it!!
Wonderful!
Nummysmom
I live in Wyoming and have been using this app for a few years. I don’t go out and bird watch, I just use it for home. I have some feeders set outside my front door and use the app to identify any new birds that show up. The app is easy to use and so far has helped me identify everything I’ve seen.
It is good.....
laylend
But I wish it was easier to use like if you were bird watching and could not identify the bird that fast and what if the color you have is not on the color page also why can’t you snap a picture and it will automatically say what type of bird it is if you do these things in the next update I will give your app a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️star rating instead of ⭐️⭐️⭐️just saying unless you don’t want your app to be more popular and better
Suggestion for improvement
Susie Sagebrush
Sometimes your identification program cannot come up with the bird I am seeing, even though it is in your database. Just now I told it I had seen a bird, between crow and robin, Blue (and white), eating under my feeder. I KNOW it was a Blue Jay (aka Eastern Blue Jay), but because I am in Vernal, Utah, it could not tell me this, because it could not believe what I was telling it. Please, when I know, or have a good guess as to what wandering, out-of-bounds bird I am seeing, let me send you my guess along with the “Merlin could not identify” notation. This has happened before, and will likely happen more and more with the changing climate patterns. I use this app more for entertainment than for identification because I have a good bird book in my memory, no app needed.
Indespensible
Kayakpicker
Our trip to the Nicoya peninsula of Costa Rica was made that much richer, informative and enjoyable by having Merlin at the ready to identify the incredible bird life surrounding us - the Great Kiskadee among my most favorite, Crested Caracara, Rufous-naped Wren, and dozens more.
Identification by calls is missing
SheWhoWatches
I have identified owls and small forest birds by their calls. Merlin only allows the user to ID birds for its database based on visual data.
Photo ID is great!
warmstove
This is the best app for helping to identify species from photos taken. This app has even identified juvenile birds that expert birders had trouble identifying. It is great being able to load packs from so many areas of the world. Bravo!