[Tweeters] Merlin ID question

[Steve Loitz via Tweeters]

Merlin suggests uploading the erroneous voice recording to eBird with the
correct species ID, where it can be used by Merlin to improve its voice ID
accuracy. I have never done that. Maybe others can supplement and/or
clarify.

I am amused by some of the false Merlin voice IDs. My favorite was a
Yellow-breasted Chat ID'd as a Bobolink. Merlin seems wholly incapable of
distinguishing between the breeding populations of Cassin's Finch and
Purple Finch calls in our area (Ellensburg and environs). On several
occasions I've watched a CAFI singing on a treetop as Merlin flashes PUFI
for the voice ID -- and vice versa.

Merlin seems to have gotten better on some other species. Merlin voice ID
is a work in progress.

Steve Loitz
Ellensburg


On Sat, Aug 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM Tom and Carol Stoner via Tweeters <
tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:


> Hey, Tweets, is there a way to correct Merlin's sound ID?  I'm listening

> to a bird "sing softly to itself" deep in my shrubbery.  Merlin ID-ed it as

> a BC Chickadee and then as a House Finch.  My visual is a Song Sparrow.

> I've heard this bird (or bird song) before (last year) and this song is

> always performed deep in a hedge.  So how do I correct Merlin's

> misidentification?

>

> Carol Stoner

> West Seattle

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