Photo by BarrytheBirder
Slowly, but surely I am joining the 20th century when it comes to identifying bird species. In the photo above, my partner Pat is seen with her cell phone while recording and identifying bird calls, using the Merlin Bird ID. My current bird species total is a little over 400, and that's after over 30 years of sight identifications. At 83 years of age, I figured I had pretty much reached my maximum lifetime number of species sighted.
But with a cellphone program like the Merlin Bird ID, maybe I've still got a long way to go. Of the 17 species identified on Pat's cellphone in a few minutes, over the last two days, one was a Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus sordidulus) ...a new species identification for my life list!
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Barry the Birder
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