I haven’t done a lot of identifying in iNat mostly because I only know birds well enough to do it. And, those go REALLY fast. But, lately I have been trying my hand… uh… ear at audio observations. I don’t know why I didn’t think of doing that sooner! I can bird by ear pretty well. (I have been lear…

[image] ken_ohio: I wish we could define an area on a map for identification like on the Explore map. You can. Draw your circle or rectangle on the map on the Explore page then in Filters click on Identify in the bottom right of the pop-up box. Also there are existing places that are larger t…

[image] ken_ohio: I haven’t done a lot of identifying in iNat mostly because I only know birds well enough to do it. And, those go REALLY fast. Not really, unless you are limiting yourself to only IDing birds in Ohio. Here’s a Northern Cardinal in Virginia uploaded in 2019 that needed an ID …

Yes. I only look to identify birds in Ohio and the surrounding areas. I’ll try expanding the area. I wish we could define an area on a map for identification like on the Explore map. I have found that people are pretty consistent with what they post as far as audio files. I just wish I could easily…

[image] ken_ohio: I wish we could define an area on a map for identification like on the Explore map. Am I missing something? On my Mac, the Identify page has a “Place” field in which I can narrow my search for a set of observations to anywhere that is a Place in iNat’s geography (e.g. my lo…

I don’t filter for audio observations. I filter for anything that still needs ID and was uploaded the previous day, and sometimes there are audio observations. I can usually identify a coquí (which I’ve heard in the evening when visiting Puerto Rico, but the obs I find are more often in Hawaii), a …

Spectrograms can be useful. If you can run Merlin on your phone and its Android, there’s a pretty versatile open source app that should be able to work with whatever sound the mic can pick up. It’s on F-Droid and called Audio Spectrum Analyzer. It has worked well for me with the phone mic at ear bud…

I find it sooo much easier to ID bird audio than blurry photos of birds flying away! When I’m struggling to hear, I just look at the spectrogram. I find my eyes are a lot more accurate than my ears in many cases. The super low-tech way to approach it on a pinch is to simply play the audio with the b…

I just want to say “thank you” to the audio identifiers. There was one audio observation of mine that turned out to be a green frog - and I’d have never known what to look for, as they sound so different from other local frogs. Thank you.

I have used the Place field. I would like states around Ohio. There is “Midwest” and “Lower Midwest”. I can see where these are defines in the Places page. They don’t include states to the east or south of Ohio. I don’t want to define my own Places just for identification to include states to the so…

That is exactly what I was looking for. It’s not the Identify web page with all it’s little options/behaviors. But, it’s still getting me the geographical area I would like. [explore_map_to_ID]

Look at the answer just above yours by lappelbaum .

How do you review/identify audio observations?

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How do you review/identify audio observations?

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