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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 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Merlin Bird ID by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

[–] RoyalEngineering 5 points 2 years ago

Downloading now!

[–] Pencilnoob 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks this is amazing!

[–] dimspace 7 points 2 years ago

/ tries to push the play button

[–] MisterFrog 6 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] Whizglo 5 points 2 years ago

Love the Merlin app

[–] Kerwala 4 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] danc4498 -1 points 2 years ago

They're not real