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Hear a mystery bird? Merlin’s AI can name it instantly

You’re walking in a natural area, and you see a little bird flitting around in the underbrush. You wonder what type of bird ...

12-year-old’s bird calls at Oklahoma school talent show have people’s jaws on the floor

A 12-year-old from Oklahoma has gained millions of people's attention with his incredible ability to mimic bird calls.
Fast Company

How AI can take your birdwatching to the next level

Are you a bird person now? “Am I a bird person now? Am I a bird person now?” exclaims one incredulous TikTok user whose Merlin app detected a tufted titmouse, a cardinal and a Carolina wren within ...
WAMC

The 10 year-old birdcaller who can trick birds with his calls

In some of the, well, less stressful corners of social media, you can hear all kinds of bird calls, people sharing recordings of birds that they took with their phones. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...
Fast Company

This free app is like Shazam for bird calls

It’s spring, and nature is pulling me away from my computer as I write this. The sun is shining, the world is warming up, and the birds are chirping away. And that got me thinking: What if a ...
In Touch on MSN

12-Year-Old Goes Viral for Ability to Imitate 114 Bird Calls, Says It’s His ‘Superpower’

A 12-year-old in Oklahoma has gone viral yet again — this time on TikTok — after imitating his favorite bird calls at a school talent show. After Samuel Henderson racked up millions of views on the ...
The Washington Post

Blind birders in tune with bird sounds, call themselves ‘bird brains’

Jerusalem Crawley grew up in Detroit, where he didn’t have much contact with nature. “I was a typical city kid and birds were the last thing on my mind,” said Crawley, now 22, who is visually impaired ...