Really good but…
Love the app, my only complaint is that it won’t let me sign in or stay signed in, and i cannot use the Life List whatsoever because of it. I have made an account but when i can’t sign into it, the sign in option doesn’t go away even after putting my password in and everything. My other complaint is that the app can’t identify the Crimson Rosella for some reason?
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Skip email suddenly missing
I get enough spam email already, I don’t need to be in Cornell Labs mailing list
Great App, needs some tweaks
I use this app primarily on an iPad mini. It would be nice if the format was not limited to the iPhone layout. I would use it far more if the format matched the device; easier to see and read. It would also be nice to have a faster load/start so one can identify the bird in front of you rather than waiting for an app to load and wade through options by which time the bird is long gone.
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Great App
Love using the Merlin app for identifying birds. I do wish it could handle the water running sounds better. It makes identifying the water fowl a bit difficult but other than that a great app. I use it everyday.
Most beloved app I use
This is the most joy giving app that I have ever used and the one I recommend the most to friends. It doesn’t work well in certain places in the world but works great in the US.
Top Shelf
Simple and easy to use. Ed
Не работает лайфлист
Перестала работать функция "Это моя птица", распознает птиц приложение всегда по разному, то за 1 секунду, то и за минуту не может определить, хотя пишет, что птицу слышит.
Does not pick up sound anymore
I used to love this app when I first downloaded. It was addictive and it would pick up birds in seconds. Now I can be near a very loud, perfectly audible bird but the app just flashes with “hearing bird” and then nothing. Please fix this, it’s very frustrating when you’re desperate to become a novice twitcher!
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As I use it, it disappoint
There’s a rent sitting like 6 feet away from me. I could see the bird, but it was chirping, but this app cannot identify it. It can barely hear it and then another bird not 10 minutes it didn’t even recognize it as a bird calling so this app’s not that great it could predict or tell me the birds I already know so what the …
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Incredible App
This app is wonderful. I use it almost everyday to help me identify birds. It’s really helped me learn so much. Invaluable!
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An avian 🎼ymphony
As a senior bird lover/birdwatcher ( or scientifically classified, by me 😉) a septuagenarian ornithophile), I heartily thank Merlin Bird ID for its ability to identify the few birds whom I had not already been able to call by name(s). Also being a music lover, I daily partake in many an avian symphony. Each begins with an aerial aria, soon to be joined by my own whistling. When I notice a need for a little more soprano (e.g. a hermit thrush) or even a little percussion (a downy woodpecker), I play the Merlin songs of the missing sounds, and voilà! Willing feathered musicians often arrive and join in. Another beautiful avian 🎼ymphony! Thank you, Merlin ID.
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Best Ever
Love this app- best app I’ve ever used !!!
Gateway to Birding
I don’t have enough positive words to explain how I feel about this app. A friend mentioned it to me, and in the past year I have become a novice birder thanks to the information available here. I love going to a park or forest and starting a sound ID session because if I hear anything unfamiliar, I can get an idea of what it could be and what to look out for. The Merlin app and specifically the sound ID feature has helped me train my ear to recognize and deeply appreciate the wildlife that surrounds me, no matter where I am. When I’m bored, I read about and listen to new birds so I can recognize them in the wild someday. I really think this app is a fantastic educational tool, and the fact that it’s free makes it even better. Birding should be accessible to everyone who is interested, and I think this app is doing a LOT to make that a reality.
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So Fun
Thank you for making this wonderful app available. The world of bird watching has opened to me and subsequently improved my life immensely. I now regularly spend time appreciating birds and nature, to the great benefit of my mental and spiritual life.
Best app ever
This is the best app on my phone, and I’ve got a lot of apps!
I love this app
Thank you for the update on 8.19.26, app now works correctly again.
Most of the time it works
When it's working it identifies the birds around, but today I had fish crows 30 yards away holding court and it just said "listening...listening".. No other noises around except the birds and the solitude of my woods.
My mourning dove impression has faked out the app multiple times too.
My mourning dove impression has faked out the app multiple times too.
Steals your information
This app used to work entirely without demanding your information. Recently, they made changes demanding your personal information, said "you have two weeks to confirm this is really your information before we lock you out of the app", and subsequently locks you out. There is NO REASON for them to all of the sudden demand this unless they’re using it for shady purposes.
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Worse every month
This app still does what it’s supposed to do; the problem is that it’s also trying to do more and more other things. Silliness like the “bird of the day”seems to be distracting the developers from less exciting stuff like, for example, stopping the the app from hanging and sometimes crashing when you switch regions, organize bird packs sensible, making the life list function useable, and so on. Nice effort and I retain hope, but the bloat is starting to weigh it down far too much.
Updated: it’s now even worse than when I first wrote this. It hangs almost constantly, to the point of being unusable a lot of the time. What was once a terrific app has become an overweight nightmare.
Updated: it’s now even worse than when I first wrote this. It hangs almost constantly, to the point of being unusable a lot of the time. What was once a terrific app has become an overweight nightmare.
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