Bird Watching!

[lxskllr]

Here's an android app that might be interesting to some. I'm sure there's a thousand of these on the playstore with varying degrees of spyware added, but this one should be clean, and the source code can be examined if desired. ID bird songs...

whoBIRD | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Recognize birds by their sounds, anywhere in the world!

f-droid.org

 

[Cobleskill]

Merlin from Cornell is a good one.

 

[stig]

That is the one I use.

 

[cory]

Meet the Falconer Who Earns $20,000 a Month

You do what? A Long Island native traded book publishing for birds and never looked back.

getpocket.com

 

[stig]

We must have been working in a migrating corridor today.
Had some hundred Barnacle Geese passing on their way to Svalbard ( I know that, because the Greenland corridor is further to the west)
6 Honey Buzzards on the way to Sweden and an Eagle on the way to god only knows.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Nighthawk.

 

[lxskllr]

 

[Burnham]

We have been enjoying more than the average number of Western Tanager sightings this summer. I'm especially glad of it, since it seems that for the last several years they have only been declining in numbers. They are a particularly beautiful songbird.

Western Tanager

A western counterpart to the Scarlet Tanager, this species occurs in summer farther north than any other tanager -- far up into northwestern Canada. Western Tanagers nest in coniferous forests of the...

www.audubon.org

 

[lxskllr]

The name "tanager" is familiar to me, but I don't know from where. I'm wondering if I saw one of the varieties around here and looked them up. I might have to dig around, and see if I could expect to find one out this way. A quick look on wikipedia says they're mainly tropical birds, but that doesn't mean they all are.

 

[Burnham]

The scarlet tanager is native to your area, John...for breeding anyway. They migrate from Central and South America.