The pandemic has made lots of people hopeful birders. The updated Merlin app from Cornell Lab of Ornithology can help ID mystery birds.

Casual birdwatchers may want to bookmark Merlin Bird Photo ID, a website created by Cornell University and the Visipedia research project. Thanks to powerful artificial intelligence techniques ...

I first discovered Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab of Ornithology earlier this summer, when I was trying to figure out the identity of a particular bird of prey in my neighborhood. After looking at ...

A veteran bird-watcher gives Merlin bird ID app a test drive What's in your yard? A free app from Cornell Lab of Ornithology can identify 1,054 birds by sound.

Engineers at the Cornell Lab trained Merlin Sound ID using 750,000 recordings of bird sounds recorded by birdwatchers. Local journalism is essential.

But birders and citizen scientists have long relied on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Merlin Bird ID as a go-to for identification assistance on bird photos.

Merlin's Sound ID can identify 1,054 bird species. It's based on a library of 2 million recorded bird songs from around the world.

From casual bird buddies to ornithology obsessives, you can now trek to far flung corners of the globe and identify any feathered friend you find – as long as you have a smartphone.

Merlin Bird ID from Cornell Labs: This one is just fun. Spot a bird, answer five simple questions about it —size, coloring, etc. — and see if Merlin can figure it out.

Alli Smith, of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, offers beginner tips for exploring the wide world of birds.

With common bird populations on the decline, these birds are “the canary in the coal mine,” said Ken Rosenberg, an applied conservation scientist emeritus at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.