Identify Bird Songs and Calls with Sound ID
Sound ID listens to the birds around you and shows real-time suggestions for who’s singing. Compare your recording to the songs and calls in Merlin to confirm what you heard.
Sound ID in the Merlin Bird ID app is currently available for 1,054 species of birds. This includes comprehensive coverage in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Western Palearctic, and coverage of more common and widespread species in the Neotropics and India. For India, this includes species like Purple Sunbird, Red-vented Bulbul, Indian White-eye, Spotted Dove, and Red-wattled Lapwing, which are likely to be encountered by both beginners and experienced birders.
You can help Merlin Sound ID add new species and expand to new areas by making sound recordings, uploading them to eBird checklists, and tagging the background species audible in the recording.
Merlin Sound ID is powered by smartphone recordings, so anybody with a smartphone has everything needed to make recordings and help! The Macaulay Library’s smartphone recording tips are a great place to get started.
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