Merlin Bird Photo ID

[Doug West]

Just read this in Pop Photo...its a beta program that attempts to
id a bird simply by the image you upload.

So far I've tried two images, a Chickadee and a female Cardinal
and the program was right both times.

Here's the link...

http://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/photo-id

Oh yeah, its free.

Doug

[Sandy Witvoet]

Hi Doug.... cool idea for ID, but I'd prefer to use my own skills, supplemented by my favorite guides (both human and print.) Here is a link to a FB group showing how Merlin ID'd this pretty easy to ID bird... (This group is the FB Bird Mis-identification group.... birders that are extremely knowledgeable, yet with an intense sense of warped humor.... my type of folks.) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204516048606875&set=gm.1626159717600737&type=1

[Bill Nuttall]

Had no idea what my Yellow Billed Duck was

[Edward Arthur]

Nice find and I'm pretty impressed. For me, it identified immature female house finch, white-throated sparrow, blue-gray gnatcatcher, brown-headed cowbird and an orchard oriole that was partly obscured by foliage.