Interesting - the very first birding database I used was called Merlin. I
used it for a couple of years then the guy who developed it told his users
he was going off to be a Buddhist monk and would no longer support the
product so I moved on....
And then of course we need one that identifies calls - there are services
that will identify music I know (you play a sample you heard on the radio
and it tells you what the music was) but this would be a bit harder I
suppose - or maybe it already exists?????
On 15 November 2012 10:34, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
> Dear B-A,
>
> Cornell Lab of Ornithology is developing a project called Merlin. This aim
> of this project is to develop software that enables computers to identify
> birds from images. See
> http://dev.nabirds.org/Web/Tools/ImageUpload/pages/about.php
>
> Given the advances in human biometrics, I imagine that computer ID of
> birds is quite doable. Wonder how long it will take for the technology to
> appear in handheld devices? After all, how many of us say, 10-15 years ago,
> would have thought that an all singing, all dancing field guide in a
> smartphone type device would be possible?
>
> An interesting space to watch.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carl Clifford
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