A field guide, a pair of binoculars and Merlin — the ultimate free smartphone app for bird identification — is all you need to start birding.

I’m old school, at least as far as field guides to birds go. I prefer a book to an app, but it’s a qualified preference. I ...

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Merlin's Sound ID can identify 1,054 bird species. It's based on the Macaulay Library , which contains 2 million recorded bird songs from around the world that are then annotated by a team of bird ...

Bird identification has all the elements of a thing that could become an obsession: It is systematic; it is simple but provides endless challenges; it lends itself to lists and counting; and it is ...

Inside the chassis of this big, innovative, and expensive binocular is the entire 9,000-species Cornell University Merlin Bird ID guide, along with a mammal field guide, 13-megapixel camera, ...

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Swarovski Optik’s new AX Visio binoculars use image-recognition algorithms and GPS data to discern the species of whatever bird you point them at. And they work anywhere in the world.

A field guide, a pair of binoculars and Merlin — the ultimate free smartphone app for bird identification — is all you need to start birding.