Date: 8/9/25 6:05 am From: Edge Wade <1edgewade...> Subject: Re: What Merlin has just called a Wild Turkey.
Merlin's usefulness will improve as more good recordings are submitted and
more snippets of those recordings are entered into the program. Meanwhile,
we will occasionally be amused, often perplexed, and new users will
continue to need to be alerted and gently taught not to trust it 100%.
eBird reviewers should be thanked now and then for their volunteer time and
efforts at keeping the database as accurate as possible.
That said, I still don't understand this eBird message for a Florida
checklist:
*List-building checklist. This checklist has been flagged as a personal
list-building checklist. eBird requires a specific date and location to be
used in public output. This checklist and its observations do not appear in
public eBird outputs.*
The item in question is a Yellow-faced Grassquit, seen by at least two
boatloads of people (including 13 Missourians off the *Yankee Freedom*,
with the date and location given in the checklist, entered as a historical
record. If anyone can explain why this record is unacceptable for the
public record, please respond.
Edge Wade
Columbia, MO
<1edgewade...>
On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM Terry Miller <millert832...> wrote:
> And two days ago, I had a hen turkey calling loudly only 40 yards away,
> albeit a variation of their normal kelping, ...and Merlin never picked up
> on it at all. No identification suggested even if wrong...
>
> Handy tool...sometimes...maybe...I guess? 😉 😁
>
> Terry L. Miller
> Plattsburg, MO
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> "Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely his
> eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have
> been made." Romans 1:20
>
> "The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of
> wonder." G.K. Chesterton
>
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2025, 4:48 PM Edge Wade <1edgewade...> wrote:
>
>> I am at Knob Noster State Park. There is a pickle ball court here. Merlin
>> on detecting the sound of the paddle hitting the ball lit up with wild
>> turkey. And indeed the sound to me sounds like the same pitch as the
>> beginning part of a turkey call. One more thing to be aware of with
>> Merlin.
>>
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