Originally Posted by cra1948
Originally Posted by OldmanoftheSea
Originally Posted by cra1948
I just got an app on my phone that will identify a bird by its sound. It's from Cornell University and it's free. It's called Merlin. It works. So far I've tried it on birds I knew around the house, Northern Cardinal, Carolina Wren, Carolina Chickadee and Coopers Hawk. This kind of stuff just leaves me shaking my head.

what are the odds that it geotags their (your) location too?


gotta be free for a reason...


It does. They are very upfront about the data collected and the use of it. Quite honestly, I’m not the least bit worried about it. Given my importance in the grand scheme of things, if I would need to be hyper-paranoid and delusional to think anyone could find some nefarious use for knowledge of when and where I want to identify birds by their sounds.

The problem is not the useful app that you may use. The problem is the deep dependency that constant cell phone use will create in society.

There is a time coming when you will not be able to conduct normal life activities without a phone or it's equivalent. That is VERY bad.