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

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

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.

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 ...

Cornell’s free birding app just added a ‘Shazam for bird songs’ The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has seen a burst of interest in its Merlin birding app after adding a sound recognition feature.

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.

The Merlin Bird ID app can identify more than 1,000 species of bird by listening through your phone.

Archivists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library spent a dozen years digitizing the nearly 150,000 analog audio recordings in its collection to put them on the Web.