{"id":207744,"date":"2023-09-18T13:19:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/?p=207744"},"modified":"2023-09-18T13:19:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:19:40","slug":"whos-that-singing-as-fall-migration-arrives-apps-that-id-birds-by-sound-have-taken-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/2023\/09\/18\/whos-that-singing-as-fall-migration-arrives-apps-that-id-birds-by-sound-have-taken-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s that singing? As fall migration arrives, apps that ID birds by sound have taken off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Merlin, I\u2019d always assumed the distinct \u201ccoo\u201d I heard was from a mourning dove. It\u2019s an owl. Common rookie mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Listening and watching birds has made me more aware of the times of day, and times of year, when certain birds become more active. Healthy environments too, of course, attract more birds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can see the seasons. You\u2019re looking at birds but you can\u2019t help but see everything else too. You see the entire ecosystem.<\/p>\n<footer><cite>John Smallwood, an ornithology expert in the Department<\/cite><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some bird-watchers upload their sightings into\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\">eBird<\/a>, a scientific database that tracks avian populations, which have\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-america-ap-top-news-ct-state-wire-science-united-states-f9030a84058a44e29e808d8592dac19f\" target=\"_blank\">declined sharply overall<\/a>\u00a0in past decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that people protect what they care about, and you really only care about what you know,\u201d said Smith. \u201cSo Merlin is our way of making learning about birds available and accessible to everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"prpl-button\"><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/birding-app-merlin-identifying-birdcalls-5b7a0a79b9c69a67d8e0761a2e3a3f06\" target=\"_blank\">Read the Full Article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Merlin, I\u2019d always assumed the distinct \u201ccoo\u201d I heard was from a mourning dove. It\u2019s an owl. Common rookie mistake. Listening and watching birds has made me more aware of the times of day, and times of year, when certain birds become more active. Healthy environments too, of course, attract more birds. You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":207745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207747,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207744\/revisions\/207747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}