Help ornithologists develop bird photo ID tool

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If you have a terrific picture of a Tennessee warbler, you can help the Cornell Lab of Ornithology improve its Merlin Bird Photo ID program. Upload your picture and put dots on the beak, eye and tail tip. Then, using patterns in the data, Merlin attempts to identify the bird. The aim is to help Cornell create a mobile device tool for beginning or intermediate birders to identify what they’ve snapped a picture of. (The lab already has a nice app that helps birders ID what they’ve seen based on a bird’s size, colors, behavior and location, but not with a photo.)