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 ...

I first discovered Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab of Ornithology earlier this summer, when I was trying to figure out the identity of a particular bird of prey in my neighborhood. After looking at a ...

However, Merlin wasn’t always so popular or effective at recognizing bird calls. It materialized as an idea in 2008 but didn’t take flight until 2014, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, ...