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I really like this app, but last night I had an encounter in the dark with the most weird alien sounding bird, that uses so low frequencies that the app couldnt make anything out of it.

I realize this is a fault of my phones mic and not the app, btw!

I think the bird was one of the snipes (dvärgbeckasin?) because I met them before.

[MrOrelliOReilly]

Did you actually see the bird? Some animals make sounds that are deceptively similar to birds (ex chipmunk chirps). Merlin won’t recognize these as “not a bird”; it just doesn’t recognize the sound at all.

Usual disclaimer IANABL (I am not a bird lawyer)

[0points]

Nope, but I heard the sound before and I am at least 70% confident after asking my ornitholog friend :-)

We don't have a huge load of animals making weird sounds around here, so one learns to recognize most of the strange ones after some years in the woods.