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1. swozey · 1789918811 · focus · HN ↗

   I didn't grow up near ravens but I'm sure I've encountered them in my life plenty of times, except now I'm traveling around Oregon/Washington forests and I can't tell you how many times I thought some drunk people were arguing or screaming in camp and it was just the ravens. Just the strangest screeching or whatever you want to call it.

   Actually, thinking about this, I was in Moab for a year with ravens and never heard anything like what I hear in the PNW from them.

   Also didn't know Stellar Jays were a thing until here, coolest looking bird I've seen. Like punk rock blue jays.

   Gemini has been absolutely terrible as a "what bird? [bird pic]" tool. I wonder how many bird names I've "learned" wrong from it. It thinks a lot of what I send it are canada geese.

   1. tlavoie · 1789921408 · focus · HN ↗

      Try an app called Merlin, from Cornell University. It's excellent, and basically runs against a regional machine learning model to identify birds.

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