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The biggest day in birding, #GlobalBigDay , is one week away! Go #birding on May 13 & share what you find with eBird. By taking part, you’re also celebrating #WorldMigratoryBirdDay . Where will you be birding next Saturday? #birds #BirdTwitter bit.ly/40JVPL2
Also new for 2022, Merlin now supports Sound ID for 507 species in Central and South America! #MerlinYearInReview
Sound ID is really taking off in Europe, with users identifying 8.4 million birds in 2022! #MerlinYearInReview
You can now identify 870 different bird species using Sound ID, with complete coverage for the US, Canada, and Europe. A whopping 1.5 million people around the world used #MerlinBirdID to identify 178 million birds by sound this year! #MerlinYearInReview
We’re looking back at 2022 and celebrating #MerlinBirdID ‘s biggest year yet! With 4.6 million people around the world using Merlin to identify birds, we have a lot of cool stats to share over the next few days! #MerlinYearInReview
Here’s a photo collage highlighting the diversity of pattern and coloration in the tails of adult Red-tailed Hawks. Photos by myself and Red-tailed Hawk Project collaborators Jesse Watson, Lucas DeCicco, and Neil Paprocki, all of which are stored in Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab. Cornell Lab
In two weeks we’ll be leading a workshop on sound recording at the Feria de Aves de Sudamérica in Cusco! Come learn from Jay McGowan, Fabricio Gorleri, and other sound recordists how to record, edit, and upload audio that contribute to our understanding of birds and power tools like Merlin Bird ID
🚨 Job alert! 🚨
New opening at Cornell Lab for Merlin Bird ID Project Coordinator. This position is perfect for someone passionate about connecting people to birds, and working with a fantastic team at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CornellC…
Bird Feeders--a restaurant for Accipiters with a lively and ever revolving cast of daily specials. What do Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawks like to order? And do they order the same thing? Oisin Mac Aodha Project FeederWatch FeederWatch Canada onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
If you are interested in working on Sound ID and other machine learning projects alongside myself, Eliot Miller, and the rest of the great team Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab and Cornell Lab, then please check out this open position: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerP…
Here with another Thursday peek behind the scenes Merlin Bird ID Sound ID and its varied and exciting research potentials. Grant Van Horn has been working on some fascinating per-species interactive embeddings of the feature vectors that come off the sound ID model.
New research finds that a bird's response to alarm calls is innate. Pishing, the noise birders often make to bring birds out into the open, may also work in similar ways. Learn more at:
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Digging into our #BestOfMacaulay photos to highlight this gorgeous Eared Grebe, a small grebe that feeds on invertebrates in lakes worldwide, including Mono Lake, California, and the Great Salt Lake, Utah. More: allaboutbirds.org/news/macaulay-…
Research using recordings in the Macaulay Library finds that Ruby-crowned Kinglets have many song dialects across their range, suggesting that song is learned. Mapping dialects can help better understand migratory connectivity 🌎
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Field Ornithologists Lily Douglas