Date: 4/25/24 9:13 pm From: Fred Schroyer <ibfreditor...> Subject: Merlin doesn't know the Red-Shouldered Hawk?
Walking at 5 this evening thru a ravine near our home (Waynesburg, PA, just north of the WV line), a noisy hawk flew above me and landed in a tall sycamore, frequently calling. It looked to me like a Red-Shouldered, but I wasn't sure. So I opened the Merlin app for a quick ID. Merlin quickly identified the other songsters in the ravine, but ignored the dominant loud-&-clear calls of the hawk! They showed prominently on the sonogram, but Merlin offered no suggestions. I closed the app, reopened it, and tried again-still nothing. So I went to Youtube, found some Red-Shouldered videos, and played one. The video sounded identical to my hawk's calls, and the bird became agitated and responded with calls, obviously reacting to the video. Has anyone else experienced this with Merlin? I can't believe it did not recognize a common hawk!
