this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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I always take a walk around my office during lunch. Finally managed to see and also record a firecrest. Such a tiny but cool-looking bird!

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[–] Pencilnoob 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Merlin Bird ID by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

[–] RoyalEngineering 5 points 1 year ago

Downloading now!

[–] Pencilnoob 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks this is amazing!

[–] dimspace 7 points 1 year ago

/ tries to push the play button

[–] MisterFrog 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope Lemmy is updated to make it easy to see feeds from identical communities in the same feed, so people will just post in their favourite instance, not all of them.

Cross-posting to all of them will get old, fast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this you're telling me I shouldn't crosspost stuff to other communities? Is it frowned upon? I'm sorry if it is!

[–] drinksa_vodka_drink 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, you're good. People do it all the time. People are just trying to be active in Lemmy so it grows. We are in some of the same communities so I saw it twice. No biggie to me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Okay, that's good to hear then :-)

I guess Lemmy is a little bit half-baked in some areas still, I'm sure it'll be ironed out in the coming weeks and months!

[–] emossman 5 points 1 year ago

Wow, this is so cool! I'll have to try this out and see what I can record near me

[–] Whizglo 5 points 1 year ago

Love the Merlin app

[–] Kerwala 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woah, does the app pick out each bird from a single recording, or do you have to get it to focus on one?

[–] drinksa_vodka_drink 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It will pick out each bird it hears in real time highlighting it on the list. You can watch the app and start to learn the bird calls.

[–] RomeCallen 5 points 1 year ago

my wife just showed me this app and it is just the coolest

you go from appreciating the noise to picking out the differences

its great

[–] drinksa_vodka_drink 3 points 1 year ago

I thought I was high for a second. I just replied to your identical post in another community (right?) And this one was next in my feed and I got really confused. Lol

[–] Neo 2 points 1 year ago

Will give Merlin app a try. Used another app, but most of the time I get mixed results

[–] danc4498 -1 points 1 year ago

They're not real