[siegecraft]

I've been a user of BirdNet (also from Cornell, but apparently a different group?), looking forward to checking out Merlin. With Birdnet you have to record a sound, pick out the specific portion of the audio and click identify.

[jonah]

One could say BirdNet is the "pro" tool. Merlin uses much of the same sound database and AI but as you've seen - is automated - set it recording and it will mark every bird sound it can hear and identify.

Another good one is SongSleuth[1] - recently recommended to me by Nathan Pieplow because it has a "pre-record" buffer so you can hit record as or immediately after you hear a bird and it captures a few seconds before that instead of having to run Merlin continuously waiting for the bird to call next.

[1] http://www.songsleuth.com/

[2] https://earbirding.com/blog/author

[bmitc]

Anybody use the BirdNet Analyzer? https://github.com/kahst/BirdNET-Analyzer

I've tried setting it up with the birdnetlib package but had trouble getting it running with a model and pack that was for my region. The default model for birdnetlib is in Europe.

[Schinken_]

I had https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi running last summer with great success. Might be worth a look.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Merlin is automatic and realtime. There does currently seem to be a bug with recordings. It will highlight the wrong bird in the set during playback even though it was correct when the live recording was made.