The Nature Conservancy is holding a grand opening Saturday, June 7 for its new Long Pond Barrens Birding Trail near Pocono ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Birding and bird ID come hand in hand, but for some beginners, it can be tricky to learn differences between bird species. This Merlin bird ID app can help.

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 ...

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

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 ...