Keeping our current ideas, feelings and surroundings in mind can be a challenge, especially in the modern age. I, personally, seems to be difficult to ground in the present and often tried to use meditation apps for help. However, this app has given me the most success when it comes to mind -blowing and present, it is not one for breathing exercises or mental health, but one to identify the birds around me.
Since 2014, Arnatology’s Merlin Bird ID’s Cornell Lab has been launched to help people identify and identify the birds. Thanks to Ebrid, the world’s largest database of 800 million globally viewing, the app allows you to record birds, answer a series of questions, or upload a photo of your wings friend’s name. Or you can easily use the app to find different birds in your area, no matter where you are in the world and even if you are offline.
The homepage of the app, with three routes for identification.
One of my favorite features of Merlin Bird ID is that you can use it to track your birds’ eyes and, such as an IRL Pokémon Go, “collect them all.”
The first time I used the app, I sat on my balcony, clicking the Green “Sound” button and noticed that the app identified the birds and identified the cows everywhere. You can see different sound frequencies as they appear on a real -time spectgram, which audio represents the world’s visual. The next time I examined the clock, I was surprised to find that an hour had passed. After that, I dug my telescope and allowed it to fly even more.
The app looks like a spectgram.
As anyone knows Merlin Bird Ider, for the first time, there is no thrill like pressing the “This Bird” button, though it is never old. From there, you can record your location and consequently the app will save your report to improve its performance.
Long ago, I memorized different sounds of birds. In the morning, I wake up like the California’s Ta’i alarm and the sound of clean, yes, as the sun rises, the disturbing disturbing disturbing from the tree outside my window. On a walk around my neighborhood, I will share the sound of auditors and era construction to listen to the chills of home fans, which are mixed in the low gold fencing stocks and a couple of religiously deployed a couple of drones. It was a song that was going on the sound of my world but I had not yet paid attention to it.
From the sight, I will identify the red whispers of the red whispers with their black crusts and fire engine cheeks, looking forward to copying in the form of a shameful color powder. Black Phobes made himself famous with the black heads of their blowing box, the silence of the sculpture and the ivory stomach. In my balcony, there is a never -ending line of customers with a pit in sunset, in sunset colors: Anna’s Humming Birds (my favorite, as you may have guessed), Allen and even extraordinary roofus, who do not spend all day fighting on sugar water when they do not see them.
A user in our feeder. I think they are Allen’s Haming Birds.
The most sensational thing is that when the Merlin Bird app listens to a bird you can’t see, and it feels as if it is your mission to find a way. This is often a lesson of patience, because you may have many efforts to find the song you are looking for. Recently, sitting in a new Tow Me park, the app told me that a hill was nearby and I just tried to see it with my binoculars in the next 45 minutes. It ended directly on a branch on my head, and when I got up to leave, he flew down my face as if it was a joke that it was all the time.
I have yet found a red wings blackbird that seems to be always out of reach, no matter where I am in my city, but I find myself in the seemingly -known flock of shared Ravens (which is unfairly called “misconduct”) on my street.
The birds I have heard, but have not yet seen.
I often listen to the comfortable and lust of a great horny owl, singing loli at 9:30 pm before the start of the spring. I like the time journey in those moments, though I have had some retreating conversations that I have inadvertently recorded among Birdsong. With this, Merlin Bird ID saves your audio recording but only on your device in the app. You have to export and upload them manually, you have to share the recording with the e -Bird.
Now I look for indiscriminate jungle places to meet new feathers, an excuse for forest baths, which makes me see a blue shade for the Rudy Duck bill. After the rain storm, I called each other to call each other with impressive red mohaks, calling each other. Like a conversation between Punk Bests during dinner. My area is known for the great flock of Amazon parrots (and their permanent screams), who are now happy to look closely because they use their light yellow bills to climb the trees and collect their beers. And once, only once, I grabbed the back of a yellow warbler in a nearby Watershed Park.
Akorin Woodpeker
Because of this app, I have spent more time listening to the world around me and wandering less time in my head, past and future. I have found myself surrounded by more nature and in conversation. It may be the closest thing to do magic on earth. Now, perhaps this is the key to grounding yourself: keeping your butt to the ground and taking time to listen to people around you.


