Welcome to /c/birding, a community for people who like birds, birdwatching and birding in general! Feel free to post your birding photos or just photos of birds you found in general, but please follow the rules as outlined below.
This should go without saying, but please be nice to one another. No petty insults, no bigotry, no harassment, hate speech,nothing of that sort! Depending on the severity, you'll either only get your comment removed and a warning or your comment will be removed and you will be banned from /c/birding.
This is a community for posting content of birds, nothing else. Please keep the posts related to birding or birds in general.
When posting photos or videos that you did not take, please always credit the original photographer! Link to the original post on social media as well, if there is one.
Absolutely no AI-generated content is allowed! I know it has become quite difficult to tell whether or not something is AI-generated or not, but please make sure that whatever you post is not AI-generated. If it is, your post will be removed. If you continously post AI-generated content, you'll be banned from /c/birding (but it's obviously okay if you post AI-generated stuff once or twice without knowing you did so).
Please provide rough information location, if possible. This is a more loosely-enforced rule, especially because it is sometimes not possible to provide a location. But if you post a photo you took yourself, please provide a rough location and date of the sighting.
If Merlin is incorrect, I'd love if the experts on here could identify. Thanks so much!
What is your approximate location?
I'm in Central Connecticut, United States. The picture was taken yesterday afternoon
To me it looks pretty good for red-winged blackbird, do you hear them around there? They have a very distinct call
We have seen and heard them, but I was surprised how different the females look compared to the males
Looks like red-winged to me as well.
Central CT here, too. Great shot!
Thank you so much! My spouse and I tried the Merlin app, and got hooked on the birds around our neighborhood. We're in the Southington / Farmington area.
Glastonbury here. Other side of the river.
Who is Merlin?
Merlin is an app by Cornell that uses machines learning to try to identify birds by photos or recorded sounds. It's pretty amazing. Here's the link to the Android version.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.labs.merlinbirdid.app
Sweet, thanks!
I use Merlin, but for identifying birds using the sound ID feature. It's amazing who's around that you can hear but not see!
It looks more like a fledgling American Robin to me