Birding has long been the hobby of retirees and “bird nerds,” demanding early mornings and a particularly sturdy attention ...

A favorite summer pastime of mine is bird watching from my porch swing. This season I discovered the Merlin Bird ID app. I ...

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Then I saw it over my head, and I ran home to get my mom’s phone.” Seeing a nesting pair of Mississippi kites in the District ...

Merlin Bird ID will soon feed AI-powered bird identifications into Cornell's eBird platform, helping researchers monitor bird populations using millions of real-world observations. The Latest Tech ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an animal that can make new calls. Why some birds learn to create their own ...

Cornell Lab for Ornithology plans data linkup between app and population monitoring on eBird platform The Merlin bird ID app will allow users to feed real-time bird identifications into one of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... While I’m not a paper-map purist, I typically prefer a phone-free experience when recreating outdoors. But I’m slowly warming up to the idea of integrating a ...

You’re walking in a natural area, and you see a little bird flitting around in the underbrush. You wonder what type of bird it is, but as you get closer, it flies off. You hear it calling from the ...

Flawless was the June morning. A dusty blue sky was clearing as the sun dispensed morning mists. Warmth greeted me on the back porch. Hearing birdsong, I activated the Merlin Bird ID app on my phone ...

When you hear the piercing screech of a bald eagle in a movie, your heart races with patriotic fervor as the majestic bird soars across the screen. That iconic sound has become synonymous with ...