Date: 11/22/24 3:54 pm From: Ragupathy Kannan <0000013b0ad14faf-dmarc-request...> Subject: Re: First Black Scoter from AR in iNaturalist
Oh I didn’t know that David. Thanks for letting me know. I should try it out. I’m impressed that iNaturalist identified a photo of mine that shows only the male’s head sticking out of the water from a distance. And I saw your follow up email saying that Merlin did the same. Nice. This AI thing is something indeed.
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On Friday, November 22, 2024, 4:31 PM, DAVID PARHAM <000004014062b2df-dmarc-request...> wrote:
Hi Kannan,
Merlin has a photo ID option that seems to be accurate enough. The photo to be used can be accessed from your photo library. Do you think that the iNaturalist works better?
DavidParham
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On Nov 22, 2024, at 1:35 PM, Ragupathy Kannan <0000013b0ad14faf-dmarc-request...> wrote:
I encourage AR-birders to try iNaturalist if you have not. Their powerful AI identifies photos and is accurate most of the time. Even eBird does not have an AI tool to ID bird photos.
I noticed that my Black Scoter photo was the first from our state in its database of over 200 million observations (including about 700,000 from Arkansas). And it was immediately vetted by people and elevated to Research Grade (meaning, a scientifically valid observation): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/252428564 iNaturalist does other cool stuff, like the biodiversity project blitz project I did in Malaysia, which got a lot of locals fired up: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/dr-r-kannan-s-fulbright-malaysia-biodiversity-blitz For what iNaturalist has done to Arkansas biodiversity documentation and education, click here.
KannanFt. Smith
