Date: 4/27/24 7:01 am From: Paul Mckay <paulmck57...> Subject: Re: Merlin doesn't know the Red-Shouldered Hawk?
I have been using Merlin quite a bit this spring and found it to be usually
quite good. I had a red shouldered hawk calling the other day and Merlin
got it instantly. Last winter it didn't catch the same hawk, but it was out
there aways. Like all AI use improves results as it learns. Interestingly I
found it will id a bc Chickadee once then show Carolina chickadees. My rule
of thumb is a one time read should be questioned.
But otherwise it is fun, like having a good leader on a bird walk.
Paul McKay
Ohio County
On Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 11:19 AM Wendy Perrone <wendy...> wrote:
> We've noticed that Merlin is at best slow to recognize Raptor calls in
> general, most of the time it ignores them altogether.-Wendy Perrone,
> Executive Director, Three Rivers Avian Center, Brooks (Hinton) WV.
> www.tracwv.org. Sent from my smartphone.
> -------- Original message --------From: Fred Schroyer <
> <ibfreditor...> Date: 4/26/24 12:13 AM (GMT-05:00) To:
> <WV-BIRD...> Subject: Merlin doesn't know the Red-Shouldered
> Hawk? Walking at 5 this evening thru a ravine near our home (Waynesburg,
> PA, justnorth of the WV line), a noisy hawk flew above me and landed in a
> tallsycamore, frequently calling. It looked to me like a Red-Shouldered,
> but Iwasn't sure. So I opened the Merlin app for a quick ID. Merlin
> quicklyidentified the other songsters in the ravine, but ignored the
> dominantloud-&-clear calls of the hawk! They showed prominently on the
> sonogram, butMerlin offered no suggestions. I closed the app, reopened it,
> and triedagain-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 birdbecame agitated and responded with calls,
> obviously reacting to the video.Has anyone else experienced this with
> Merlin? I can't believe it did notrecognize a common hawk! Fred
> SchroyerFreelance Writer/Editorial Consultant955 6th StreetWaynesburg, PA
> <15370ibfreditor...>
