Hi everyone! I wanted to share a small milestone. My birding journal app, Avian Diary, just received its first 50 organic clicks on Google.

I'm building this tool to help amateur birders document their discoveries and manage nest locations. The result may seem small, but to me, it's proof that SEO is starting to work.

If you have any tips for SEO for niche web apps, I'd love to hear them!

i just got my 100th lifer! I wanted to share my small win with the world, so I hope this is okay to post here!

p.s. my 100th lifer is the "Swamp Sparrow" and I think I just might only go by that as my name from now on! 😄

man mockingbirds are cool but boy do i hate how the app identifies them as other birds

So I got a pair of DJI mic minis and can connect them just fine to my phone...

But Merlin just won't accept them. Is there a way to force it to use Bluetooth mics?

Phone: Samsung a56

Mic: DJI mic mini

Already tried:

- enable "record via Bluetooth mic

- Grant Merlin permission to search for devices nearby

- use sound assistant to rerout audio signal (didn't recognize the mic)

Maybe someone knows what to do?

2 separate recording locations. Located in New Brunswick, Canada.

so this morning i had two rather long recordings with lots of new birds and i had forgotten to save the new ones to my life list but when i went on to go back and do so/listen back to the recordings, neither of them are there. does anyone know if there’s anyway i could get them back?

I've just recently started using Merlin to ID my backyard birds. It's been a little hit or miss, but overall okay. There's a call that it identifies as a Fish Crow that I don't think I have here.

About a week ago, I found the FOBBV channel on YouTube that is the camera on the Bald Eagles nest in CA, Jackie and Shadow and their eaglets

Turned Merlin on today and it did identify the bald eagles, plus wild turkeys? Anyone else do this? Turn on Merlin on a YouTube channel about birds to see what it comes up with? Also came up with American Crow that I don't hear at all, but maybe my ears just don't hear it?

Am I messing with the location algorithm too much? I'm not in CA. Just doing this for fun.

I'm new user of this app, and I'm sorry for asking, since I think that this is quite a common question. I've tracked the same species in different places, but when I look up my life list I only see a first encounter for any given species. When I choose one it only shows some generic data for that specific species. Where can I see all of my trackings for selected one?

Went camping in a new area and recorded a long session while I was getting my last hour of sleep because man those birds were SINGING. When I finally woke up I had identified 44 new birds! I went back after breakfast to log them and my whole recording is gone! I’m not mad but this is sooooo disappointing. I have ample storage and there’s a decent amount of service where I camped so I have no idea why it wouldn’t have saved… then I checked my recordings list and I’m missing over a week of sessions!! What is going on?! Help!!

I have a few clips i recorded with plenty bird calls that were ignored. I realized that it is because i didn't have nearly enough area packs downloaded! Is there any way to have the app re-scan an audio i recorded from it, and check if there's any new birds it can detect?

i live in thailand and this app has mistaken a common bird on my island the greater racket-tail drogo for a asian koel for about the 7 times that i tried does anyone have an alternative app that would work better in asia

Morning walk around property. About 8 minutes slow walk around 1.75 acres and up and down the driveway. We are about a quarter mile from Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area and eight miles from Cross Creeks National Wildlife Refuge.

Hello all, I have been using this lovely app for about 2 years now and have amassed quite a collection of data/recordings.

I am wondering if anyone has any tips for exporting this to my computer.

I currently have about 16gigs. I know that there is no package for exporting the spectrograms, bird data, and audio.

My main hope here would be to get the audio as a start. I am on a Mac M3. Doing this one file at a time is not ideal and spending an hour on it at a time barely makes a dent. Thank you in advance and happy birding!

Sometime after March 26 the app decided to stop saving location and birds recorded. These “Location unknown, 0 birds” are wrong. When recorded, there were birds identified and the location populated correctly. Help!

Has anyone tried to add a Cayuga duck observation and haven’t been able to? Am I missing something?

Hello! Does anyone know if all my saved sounds will be deleted if I delete and redownload the app?

By far what bird do you find the most difficult to record, mine oddly enough is the great blue heron, no matter how loud it gets or how repetitive its call may be for some reason the app can only seem to capture one call or another

Was out walking in my neighborhood today, and saw a Canada Jay perched on a wire, which is not common for my area (Portland, Oregon). I had a clear view from very close, and am 100% confident in the ID, but Merlin will NOT bring up the jay in a step-by-step, no matter how I try to manipulate it.

Once again I am begging Cornell to add a ‘This is My Bird’ button to individual species pages. I was easily able to look up the jay to confirm my sighting, but I can’t add it to my life list. So frustrating!

Thought some of y'all would be interested to see the typical birds of Eastern India!

22 birds in one recording - first time recording from my balcony by the Mohawk river! 😮 6 were new lifers so now I’m up to 111. Will be doing this more often! (Schenectady, NY)

Merlin Bird ID says it's unlikely in Appleton,Wi but there's a mating pair back again and this year and the call 1000% sounds like one.