You know those smartphone apps that tell you what song is playing? Merlin is like that, only for birds. I finally added it to my phone in May. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology introduced the Merlin ...

Merlin was on the job at Westwood Hills Nature Center in St. Louis Park one recent day, helping birders identify bird songs. Not Merlin the storied magician, although what was happening could be ...

Click, click, click. Picture review. Thumbs up in my direction. He had opened the Merlin Bird ID app by Cornell to pinpoint the specific bird that he knew was in the vicinity, and had found what ...

That all changed when I downloaded the Merlin Bird ID app from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. I originally added it to my phone to try to identify a bird I’d actually managed to see (a Steller ...

I went for an hour-long walk around a pond and across Bassett Park in the course of which I identified eight bird species ...

The hugely popular Merlin Bird ID app has outgrown its nest and spread it wings to now enable the identification of more than 10,300 species around the globe. “The original idea for Merlin was ...

And now we all carry phones which, in many ways, replace field guides and cameras. The most recent feature I’ve been using is the free bird identification app ‘Merlin’ from the Cornell Laboratory of ...

But I’ve always wondered about the birds I hear every morning, and after being introduced to the Merlin Bird ID app through, believe it or not, a podcast, I had to try it. And safe to say ...

Immediately Merlin waves his magic baton and the app begins to display the singing species one after another. Most species I have already detected through the open window. Others I need to be outside ...

Merlin, the bird, are now on their way north to summer and breed mostly in Canada and Alaska. They spend the summer generally in open to semi-open habitats with some scattered trees for nest sites ...

Thumbs up in my direction. The app, colloquially known as Merlin, is available for free on iOS and Android and is pretty much the go-to for bird lovers. It can make audio recordings, and as a bird ...