[rigrassm]

I love this app! Just started using it a month or so ago to figure out who the loud ass bird in the woods behind my house was which ended up being a Tufted Titmouse (who are now one of my favorites, so awesome looking) and a Carolina Wren (not as pretty but makes up for it with its songs).

For the last month, my morning routine has completely changed and instead of sitting inside. I now spend my mornings out back refilling and cleaning feeders, putting out some peanuts to appease the squirrels, and then plopping down on the deck with some coffee/breakfast and MerlinID running on my phone.

I'm no good at learning a new human language but after a month of using this app regularly, I can consistently ID not just the different species, but also some individual birds by their distinct calls and voices.

The only thing I wish it had is a way to catalog individual birds and have recordings of their calls and pictures of them saved together.

Hats off to the devs of this app, hands down the best app I've used in a long time!

[dsizzle]

Not sure what you mean - both the "Explore" part and the Life List both have the pics and the calls together?

It is indeed a good app, but my beef is how bad it is at adding birds to your life list. After ID'ing a bird by sound or picture it'll ask you where/when you found it with the worst defaults -- it'll know where you are and what time it is, but it sometimes randomly picks some time/place you've been at months ago (even ignoring that you may have just entered several at your current location)!

[lax_och_potatis]

If you’re getting serious into birding, a lot of folks do the lists with the separate app eBird, which lets you make lists of birds you’ve seen on say, a given walk in a specific park. It’s like a digital version of a bird checklist you might find at a wildlife refuge.

(Pro tip, if you have 100 seagulls you don’t want to count individually, you can use X to say you don’t know. Also you can enter a general group like “gull sp.” if you can’t quite identify which kind of seagull they are)

[rigrassm]

Oh yeah, I use those features, what I want is to be able to isolate specific calls and store that exact sound clip along with pictures I took to try and keep track of individual birds that visit regularly.

[aksss]

Welcome to your forties, where bird fascination is a right of passage! XD

[rigrassm]

I haven't got 36 yet so don't you go putting those extra years in me!