California-based Scribe Labs designed the BirdWeather PUC (Portable Universe Codec). A portable nature recorder designed to accompany you when birdwatching. The PUC continuously records during your trip and when you return home it automatically uploads and detects the birds it heard.
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I’ve been a big fan of the Bird Buddy smart bird feeder since I received it in late-November 2022. It’s been a solid smart bird feeder, but it’s not without its faults.
A clone competitor company, AUXCO, provided me with their product. Let’s honestly see how they compare.
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If you could take three things with you when you go birdwatching, what would they be? Binoculars, a camera, and a smartphone would be my answer. Over the past few years, new phone apps have enabled birders, both rookie and seasoned, to better identify and record what they see in the field. The Merlin App has led the way in offering a robust tool to identify unknown birds.
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There are many benefits to bringing your mobile device with you into the field when you go birding. Mobile apps offer a wide variety of ways to help you bird better, including: field guides, ID tools, observation tools and more. Keep reading to learn the must-have birding apps for your mobile phone.
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One day, you may find yourself without a field guide in hand when a mysterious bird finds its way into your field of view. What do you do? In situations like this, or for the book-averse, the answer comes in the form of a nifty mobile app called Merlin.
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I was excited to receive an email from Cornell this morning announcing a new online tool called Merlin Photo ID. This tool, similar to Bird Snap, uses “computer vision technology” to identify birds online from photos that you upload to the software.
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Birdsnap uses visual recognition and magic to identify birds in photos taken with your iPhone.
I am a big fan of incorporating technology into my birding adventures. So when I got wind of a new app on the App Store that claims to identify birds just based on pictures, I got extremely excited
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