I still think it’s beautiful. Just listen to songs they’ve made in pursuit of getting some.
Imagine you walk through a wood and record the sounds, play it back later at 300 times slower, hearing trees cumming and ejaculating over you while you were standing there… You’ll never walk through the woods again …
Relatable. Birds are suddenly really interesting in your 30s.
They probably went crazy from an intense rat infestation. That’s probably hard.
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That’s because at some point in your life you realise that birds are just tiny dinosaurs.
I love how birds are named. Look Debbie, it’s a Coloredpart Sounditmakes.
Oddly enough, other than the “part” thing, the Grey go-away-bird follows that formula. Not so much with the sad flycatcher (who’ll be alright, he just needs to process it all), the little bustard or the drab seedeater , who was clearly named by a dude who hates birds 😂
“Drab Seedeater” really was named by an ornithologist who was just god damned done that day, huh?
I recently download an app that uses AI to identify bird calls.
Merlin Bird ID
Merlin is amazing. I heard birds outside my new apartment and thought of them as nice background noise. Within days of installing Merlin, I could tell sparrows, cardinals and robins apart without seeing them. Whenever I heard a new bird, I’d grab my phone and open Merlin.
One day it sounded like a robin and a cardinal were having and argument while both simultaneously having a stroke. Merlin figured out it was a catbird, a relative of the mockingbird that learns the songs of other birds then strings pieces of them together in a disorganized song to impress the ladies. Basically, the male catbird who can sing the weirdest songs using the most species signals that he has “been around” for enough seasons to learn all those songs and therefore must have good genes the females want to pass on. It’s mind blowing to learn all this about things that are going on outside your window.
I’ve been wanting to give this a try. It uses the same AI as Merlin but runs on a raspberryPI.
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Damn and I use PlantNet to ID plants and trees. We really are living in the future…
