Anything rare in your location gets highlighted with a red dot. Anything unusual gets highlighted with an orange semi circle. It identified a few rare birds last year. Or to be totally accurate, the app claims Best Suggestion.
The Siskin was identified quite a few times, the fly catcher only once. I could hear the fly catcher for quite a while in the lilac tree but couldn’t actually see it.
Nah, tried it repeatedly on my daily 4/5 mile walk out into the countryside and a local park. No matter what the settings the background noise means it constantly returns no answer or wrong answers.
I really enjoy using Merlin and I use it regularly, living in deepest Dordogne, France, with lots of woodland around me.
On 21st March last year, when walking in the woods, I was aware of lots of birdsong nearby. In exactly three minutes and two seconds, Merlin identified 13 species of bird singing/calling! Brilliant! Quite life-enhancing, actually.
A great app, easy to set up and use. My wife and I have used it regularly for a couple of years and have learned a great deal about our local bird population.
Never heard if it before, downloaded it earlier and it has confirmed most of the regular visitors in my garden with ease. Must give it a go during the Dawn chorus and see what it brings up.
I very rarely use it when not in the garden. Leave the app recording for 15 minutes or so while I’m eating my breakfast. So no background noise at all.
I tried it while walking along a road this afternoon. Didn’t pick up much, but I did manage to find three starlings impersonating an Oyster Catcher.
Officially they are gulls, seagulls is a colloquialism. A lot moved inland driven by the impact of fishing and the availability of food in cities. I saw an interesting show a whileago that said that food recycling was having an impact on urban gulls, as we recycled more food waste then landfill waste sites no longer provided as much for the gulls to scavenge.
