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It’s easy to identify birds with a smartphone app called Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology made available this app for free. It’s nothing short of amazing, to me.

Merlin Bird ID has a sound identification function, which is available for 1,382 bird species. “In my opinion, it is 95%-97% accurate,” Wilkins said.

The app you need is called Merlin Bird ID , and it’s created by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University. It’s completely free, and it can work both online and off.

With Sound ID, Merlin can help you identify the sounds of more than 450 bird species in the United States and Canada. Merlin Bird ID uses thousands of recordings to learn the different calls of birds.