{"id":3480,"date":"2015-06-11T15:02:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2015-06-11T15:07:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T15:07:44","slug":"auto-bird-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/2015\/06\/11\/auto-bird-id\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto Bird ID"},"content":{"rendered":"

Machine “intelligence” is becoming quite sophisticated and the freely available demonstrations such as the capabilities of Google Photos<\/a> make such capabilities available to us all.<\/p>\n

I recently became familiar with the bird identification service<\/a> from the Cornell Ornithology lab from a photography blog<\/a>. I am familiar with this lab because of their efforts to utilize the contributions of citizen scientists and I blogged about the labs use of technology back in 2005<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new ID service works like this. Upload an image. Mark a couple of key points on the image (beak, eye, tail) and indicate where you took the picture. The service will attempt to identify the bird.<\/p>\n

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I tried the service with a few images from my collection (I found them with a Google photo search for “bird” from my collection of images.). The Cornell ID service correctly identified the pileated woodpecker. I am not certain about the hummingbird. I have photographs that clearly show the ruby throat and am guessing my photo shows a female.<\/p>\n

I have included another photo if you want to try. Download the pic and then go to the Cornell site.<\/p>\n

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