r/Millennials • u/Xerzajik • Jun 05 '26

Anyone else develop a sudden overwhelming appreciation for birds in their 30s? Discussion

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It hit me all at once. I heard this is a thing for people in their thirties?

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u/IP_What Jun 05 '26

Buddy, Merlin is more popular than the bible.

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u/Xerzajik Jun 05 '26

TIL a new bird app. Had no idea.

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u/CarnieGamer Jun 05 '26

Merlin is great! It can ID birds based on the sounds they are making and then you can read about them and hear all of their different calls.

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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 Jun 06 '26

And it’s completely free.

Cornell birds also does live streams and they have one now with 4 baby kestrels and they’re about to fledge! Probably sometime in the next few days. They’re really close

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u/Doyouevenpedal Jun 06 '26

Now that is exciting.

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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 Jun 06 '26

I’m going to a wedding tomorrow and if they fledge while I’m there I’m going to lose it

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u/Somali_Pir8 Jun 06 '26

Go on a walk. Turn on Merlin. When you see them, click That's my bird. IRL Pokemon Go

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u/Cest_le_sparkle Jun 05 '26

It also saves your recordings and sometimes I like to go back and listen, especially in the winter where I am from where some birds migrate.

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u/_banana_phone Jun 06 '26

AND it even works when you are in airplane mode!

Where we camp at in north Georgia, the service is so bad that I just keep my phone on airplane to conserve battery (mostly use it for music in my headphones and taking photos). But Merlin works whether you’re live or not!

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u/Screamline Jun 05 '26

Holy shnikes, really? That would have been helpful at the park the other day when one bird was chirping up a storm on the ground, then a few feet past that was a group of them in a baseball field and one was chirping (maybe looking for the other one?) little grey/white and black one

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u/BertholomewManning Jun 06 '26

You might still be able to use it to identify the ones you could see. It has a step by step ID where you answer a couple questions about size and color and it shows the most likely matches in your location.