[Tweeters] Merlin Complaints Backfire ! Badly.

[Jim Forrester via Tweeters]

Merlin is a great tool, but I would second Chuq's suggestion that Merlin should give a confidence rating on its identifications.  I've plugged it before, but we use BirdNET in the field, particularly outside the U.S., which rates its identifications between "Almost Certain" and "Just a Wild Guess".  We've found it to be spot-on when it's confident on an ID, and the "Just a Wild Guess" tends to lump in birds not expected in the area - and it's only rarely correct in that instance, as it should be.  There are many certainty levels that it has between those 99% and 1% certainties, of course.  BirdNET's only disadvantage is that it requires an internet connection to make an ID, so while you can submit a recording once you're back on-line, it's nice to be able to do the ID in the field.  For better or for worse, there are ever fewer places where internet isn't available, so it's getting easier to use this tool in the field.  
Anyway, it would be nice if Merlin would show the confidence rating and had a setting for the % confidence that would be the threshold for showing an ID.  
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