Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab

What bird species is this? Merlin bird identification will use 5 questions, or the photo of the bird species you took will reveal the answer.

Merlin is not only a great helper that can assist you in identifying birds, but also a customized bird atlas covering wild birds around the world. Get identification help and find out which bird species are near you through Merlin bird identification.

First, Merlin will ask you a few simple questions. Next, Merlin will magically show you some bird species that best match your description. Select the bird you observed, and then you can continue to enjoy more photos, recordings, and field identification features of this bird species!

If you have a photo of the bird species you observed, Merlin can also help you identify it. Take a photo, select a photo from your photo library, or capture an image in your camera viewfinder, and Merlin's powerful AI will help you identify the bird species immediately.

Merlin is easy and fun to use - whether you are curious about the bird species you have ever observed, or trying to identify every bird that visits your bird feeder, or preparing to plan a bird watching trip to a new country, Merlin will help you. This free app developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology will solve all your problems regarding bird species identification.

Features

• Merlin is suitable for beginner and intermediate bird watchers and can identify more than 2,000 of the most common bird species in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and the European continent.
• Merlin can identify photos using powerful computer vision algorithms. Select your photo, tell Merlin the time and location where you took the photo, and then you will receive the bird species recommended by Merlin.
• Artificial intelligence results. We no longer rule out hundreds of possibilities one by one! Merlin will recommend the bird species near you that best match your description.
• Customized location and date tools can generate the best answers for your neighborhood and time of year.
• There are already bird species packs for the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Central America, and we will soon launch more regional bird species packs.
• Explore the bird species in this area by location and date.
• Supported by eBird, it can provide the most accurate results based on millions of sighting results from bird watchers across North America.
• Enjoy more than 15,000 bird species photos including males, females, and juveniles.
• Learn field identification features from experts at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
• Use the audio basics package attached to the Macaulay Library of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to listen to beautiful bird sounds, including the songs and calls of each species.

Free app! The goal of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is to help you and millions of others understand birds.

Merlin is currently the most advanced bird guide app, and we are constantly expanding to new regions of the world.

••• Bird Species Packs •••
Currently, Merlin bird identification includes: identification of all bird species in the United States, as well as regional bird species packs for the following regions: Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Rocky Mountains, Southwest, Texas and Oklahoma, Alaska, and the West Coast. In the Canadian region, there are bird species packs for eastern Canada and western Canada. Bird species identification in Mexico covers all regions of the country. The bird species pack for Central America covers Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica. The bird species pack for the European region covers the United Kingdom, Ireland, Western Europe, and Scandinavian countries. These bird species packs make Merlin an ideal guide for North American birds, Mexican birds, Guatemalan birds, Belizean birds, Costa Rican birds, European birds, British birds, and Scandinavian birds.

••• Photo Identification •••
Merlin's photo identification technology, powered by Visipedia, uses computer vision and deep learning technologies to identify birds in photos. Merlin learns to identify birds through a training set of millions of photos obtained from bird watchers on eBird.org. When using photo identification, enter the date and location of the photo. These clues can help Merlin improve its accuracy and thus select the species you are most likely to have observed.