Date: 5/5/25 9:27 am From: Ann Brice (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Merlin has regressed...
I have been frustrated with Merlin lately because it seems slower to identify common birds, leaves lots of songs unidentified and can't hear as well as I can -- and my hearing has diminished over the last couple of years.
I don't know if there was an upgrade that has caused these problems or if it is related to the bird packs that I have loaded. I know that I was trying to identify a sparrow that I thought was a tree sparrow and my Merlin didn't have an entry for a tree sparrow. I loaded the North American bird pack and deleted whatever I had previously. I believe that is when I started having problems. I switched to the US: southeast. I think it has helped performance a bit but it's not identifying birds as well as last year. I had great confidence in Merlin in the past, but not any more.
Was there just a NC bird pack in the past? Was there an upgrade to Merlin that caused these problems?
