this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
1494 points (99.1% liked)

Memes

45726 readers
806 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml
sexy_peach@feddit.de
cyclohexane@lemmy.ml
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml
1494
Birds are cool. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml
102 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ThtCrzyBstrd@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I recently download an app that uses AI to identify bird calls.

Merlin Bird ID

[–] southbayrideshare@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Merlin is amazing. I heard birds outside my new apartment and thought of them as nice background noise. Within days of installing Merlin, I could tell sparrows, cardinals and robins apart without seeing them. Whenever I heard a new bird, I'd grab my phone and open Merlin.

One day it sounded like a robin and a cardinal were having and argument while both simultaneously having a stroke. Merlin figured out it was a catbird, a relative of the mockingbird that learns the songs of other birds then strings pieces of them together in a disorganized song to impress the ladies. Basically, the male catbird who can sing the weirdest songs using the most species signals that he has "been around" for enough seasons to learn all those songs and therefore must have good genes the females want to pass on. It's mind blowing to learn all this about things that are going on outside your window.

[–] Shrugz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been wanting to give this a try. It uses the same AI as Merlin but runs on a raspberryPI.

https://youtu.be/IM-F4sJ-5rc?si=0t6HGrwvHQz7OxCv

[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/IM-F4sJ-5rc?si=0t6HGrwvHQz7OxCv

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn and I use PlantNet to ID plants and trees. We really are living in the future...

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Inaturalist is my goto

[–] ijeff@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Interesting! Downloading this.

[–] AzuleBlade@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

It's pretty great, there's also Cornell's companion citizen science app called eBird that you can use to count birds around you which is useful to ornithologists to track bird population density and migration patterns!

[–] Thatsalotofpotatoes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure this thread exists because of Merlin. Half the people I know seem to be on it

[–] sederx@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

Bro that shit is insanely good.

I got so many good pictures thank to that app