Merlin bird ID app to feed real-time identifications into global eBird biodiversity database
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Sandra Laville
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The Merlin bird ID app, developed by the Cornell Lab for Ornithology, is updating to allow users' real-time bird identifications to feed directly into eBird, one of the world's largest citizen-science biodiversity databases. Since 2021, Merlin has used machine learning for instantaneous birdsong identification. This new data linkup will automatically collect species detections from users and contribute them to eBird's global population monitoring platform, which already contains over 2 billion bird observations. The initiative aims to aid conservation efforts for at-risk bird species by leveraging the growing user base of the app for scientific data collection.
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· 3 pulledThe Merlin bird ID app will allow users to feed real-time bird identifications into one of the world's biggest citizen-science biodiversity projects in an update it is hoped will aid conservation of at-risk birds.
Since 2021, the free Merlin app, created by the Cornell Lab for Ornithology, has used machine learning to provide an almost instantaneous sound-identification service for birdsong, along with an image for each bird identified.
In future, the detections of bird species recorded by people will be automatically collected on the global online database eBird, which contains more than 2bn b
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