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I'm definitely impressed with the sound ID. One time there was a cacophony of birds singing outside my house at varying distances, and the app was able to identify 6 different bird species within 30 seconds. All 6 suggestions seemed reasonable to me.

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We sometimes joke it's hallucinating when it detects something unexpected, but often it was being accurate. I saw my first ever male Blackburnian Warbler a couple weeks ago after Merlin picked it up.

I’m really impressed about how well the sound ID works for birds doing mimicry.

We had a brown thrasher stringing together a long series of mimicked calls that got labeled correctly as a brown thrasher.

I don’t even know how you’d approach the ML for that seeing how unique each song is to each bird

Equally so I've had a red wing black bird mimic a cardinal and it appeared as a cardinal.

The waveform was too thick and looked funky which is why I tracked down the bird doing it. (I Was at the Ohio bird sanctuary)

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