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Help from Cornell Univ in identifying Birds
Posted: Jun 01 2015 3:20 pm
by Al_HikesAZ
Cornell University has recently announced a beta Bird Photo ID program.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
We'd like to invite you to try out our new Merlin Bird Photo ID tool, designed to identify 400 North American bird species. Just upload a photo, point out where the bird's bill, eye, and tail are, and the computer takes it from there. For this beta-testing phase, Photo ID is just available on the Web and does not work on phones or tablets—please bear with us. Merlin Bird Photo ID works through machine learning techniques, so it gets "smarter" the more people use it—please give it a try and help it improve!
http://merlin.allabout...
Re: Help from Cornell Univ in identifying Birds
Posted: Jun 01 2015 7:58 pm
by azbackpackr
Wow!
Re: Help from Cornell Univ in identifying Birds
Posted: Jun 01 2015 8:50 pm
by big_load
I wish I had more pictures of birds, instead of pictures of where birds were one shutter lag ago.
Re: Help from Cornell Univ in identifying Birds
Posted: Jun 02 2015 8:17 am
by SAMBA
Merlin is 1 for 1 in my rather limited sample survey. Very "kewl".
Re: Help from Cornell Univ in identifying Birds
Posted: Jun 02 2015 11:26 am
by AZWanderingBear
I tried it with a photo of a duck I recently took. Told me it was one of 3 woodpeckers. I must suck as a photographer.
Re: Help from Cornell Univ in identifying Birds
Posted: Jun 02 2015 1:12 pm
by CannondaleKid
AZ Wandering Bear wrote: I must suck as a photographer
Could it be you can't tell the difference between a bird's bill and tail? ;)
Re: Help from Cornell Univ in identifying Birds
Posted: Jun 02 2015 7:16 pm
by AZWanderingBear
CannondaleKid wrote:AZ Wandering Bear wrote: I must suck as a photographer
Could it be you can't tell the difference between a bird's bill and tail? ;)
I had a very witty reply about tails and bills, but I value my access to the site. LOL
Re: Help from Cornell Univ in identifying Birds
Posted: Jun 02 2015 8:32 pm
by CannondaleKid
AZ Wandering Bear wrote:I had a very witty reply about tails and bills, but I value my access to the site. LOL
Possibly the same thought I had before I adjusted my response for the G-Rating audience.
Re: Help from Cornell Univ in identifying Birds
Posted: Jun 02 2015 9:07 pm
by azbackpackr
There are many interesting and funny names of birds. This is a quote from the American Birding Association:
"perks: Many novice birders enjoy the name of the Tufted Titmouse, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. There is the Sombre Tit, the Blue Tit, the Great Tit, and even in other families there are tit-like birds like the penduline-perks, tit-spinetails, the Layard’s Tit-Babbler, or the Agile Tit-Tyrant. I’m not making this stuff up."
http://blog.aba.org/2013/12/the-top-10- ... world.html
Re: Help from Cornell Univ in identifying Birds
Posted: Jun 02 2015 11:59 pm
by AZWanderingBear
[quote="azbackpackr"]There are many interesting and funny names of birds. This is a quote from the American Birding Association:
the Tit-Babbler, or the Agile Tit-Tyrant."
I think these were two of the flight attendants on my last trip.
This thread went downhill in a hurry.