Help Expand Merlin in Argentina
More than 150 recordings of each bird species are needed to train Merlin to identify a species by sound, but only 20% of bird species worldwide have enough recordings in eBird and the Macaulay Library.
You can help Merlin Sound ID learn new species and expand to new areas by making sound recordings, uploading them to eBird checklists, and tagging the background species audible in the recording.

Target Species
Updated: 5 June 2025
These species do not yet have the required 150 recordings to start training Merlin Sound ID to learn the species. With your help, we can reach 150+ for each species and be ready to add them to Sound ID!
- Spot-winged Pigeon (Patagioenas maculosa)
- Glittering-bellied Emerald (Chlorostilbon lucidus)
- Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica)
- Brown Cacholote (Pseudoseisura lophotes)
- Screaming Cowbird (Molothrus rufoaxillaris)
- Whistling Heron (Syrigma sibilatrix)
- Coscoroba Swan (Coscoroba coscoroba)
- Crested Duck (Lophonetta specularioides)
- White-tipped Plantcutter (Phytotoma rutila)
- Checkered Woodpecker (Dryobates mixtus)
- Chilean Swallow (Tachycineta leucopyga)
- White-banded Mockingbird (Mimus triurus)
- Spotted Nothura (Nothura maculosa)
- Chiloe Wigeon (Mareca sibilatrix)
- Rufescent Tiger-Heron (Tigrisoma lineatum)
- Brown-and-yellow Marshbird (Pseudoleistes virescens)
- Brown-capped Redstart (Myioborus brunniceps)
- Chotoy Spinetail (Schoeniophylax phryganophilus)
- Greater Wagtail-Tyrant (Stigmatura budytoides)
- White-browed Meadowlark (Leistes superciliaris)
- Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis)
- Crowned Slaty Flycatcher (Empidonomus aurantioatrocristatus)
- Cinnamon Teal (Spatula cyanoptera)
- Fire-eyed Diucon (Pyrope pyrope)
- Savanna Hawk (Buteogallus meridionalis)
- Gray-hooded Gull (Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus)
- Tufted Tit-Spinetail (Leptasthenura platensis)
- Magellanic Oystercatcher (Haematopus leucopodus)
- Dark-bellied Cinclodes (Cinclodes patagonicus)
- Wood Stork (Mycteria americana)
- Short-billed Canastero (Asthenes baeri)
- Scale-throated Earthcreeper (Upucerthia dumetaria)
- Cream-backed Woodpecker (Campephilus leucopogon)
- Pantanal Snipe (Gallinago paraguaiae)
- Ochre-collared Piculet (Picumnus temminckii)
- Chilean Flicker (Colaptes pitius)
- Ash-breasted Sierra Finch (Geospizopsis plebejus)
- Variegated Flycatcher (Empidonomus varius)
- Blue Dacnis (Dacnis cayana)
- Andean Gull (Chroicocephalus serranus)
- Cordilleran Canastero (Asthenes modesta)
- Rufous-banded Miner (Geositta rufipennis)
- Scissor-tailed Nightjar (Hydropsalis torquata)
- Long-tailed Reed Finch (Donacospiza albifrons)
- Sick’s Swift (Chaetura meridionalis)
- Chestnut-bellied Euphonia (Euphonia pectoralis)
- Plumbeous Ibis (Theristicus caerulescens)
- Sulphur-bearded Reedhaunter (Limnoctites sulphuriferus)
- Andean Goose (Oressochen melanopterus)
- Black-collared Hawk (Busarellus nigricollis)
- Violet-capped Woodnymph (Thalurania glaucopis)
- Diademed Tanager (Stephanophorus diadematus)
- Yellow-fronted Woodpecker (Melanerpes flavifrons)
- Orange-headed Tanager (Thlypopsis sordida)
- Curve-billed Reedhaunter (Limnornis curvirostris)
- Greenish Yellow-Finch (Sicalis olivascens)
- Blond-crested Woodpecker (Celeus flavescens)
- Planalto Hermit (Phaethornis pretrei)
- Plain-colored Seedeater (Catamenia inornata)
- Gray-throated Warbling Finch (Microspingus cabanisi)
- Chestnut-headed Tanager (Thlypopsis pyrrhocoma)
- Creamy-breasted Canastero (Asthenes dorbignyi)
- Band-tailed Sierra Finch (Rhopospina alaudina)
- Little Woodpecker (Dryobates passerinus)
- Lesser Grass-Finch (Emberizoides ypiranganus)
- Gray-rumped Swift (Chaetura cinereiventris)
- Bicolored Hawk (Astur bicolor)
- Dinelli’s Doradito (Pseudocolopteryx dinelliana)
- Streamer-tailed Tyrant (Gubernetes yetapa)
- Robust Woodpecker (Campephilus robustus)
- Araucaria Tit-Spinetail (Leptasthenura setaria)
- Band-tailed Manakin (Pipra fasciicauda)
- Vinaceous-breasted Amazon (Amazona vinacea)
- Blackish-blue Seedeater (Amaurospiza moesta)
- Red-ruffed Fruitcrow (Pyroderus scutatus)
- Streak-throated Bush-Tyrant (Myiotheretes striaticollis)
- Red-and-white Crake (Rufirallus leucopyrrhus)
- White-eared Puffbird (Nystalus chacuru)
- White-throated Woodcreeper (Xiphocolaptes albicollis)
- Pale-legged Warbler (Myiothlypis signata)
- White-throated Antpitta (Grallaria albigula)
- Greenish Tyrannulet (Phyllomyias virescens)
- Planalto Tapaculo (Scytalopus pachecoi)
- Black-capped Foliage-gleaner (Philydor atricapillus)
- Olive Spinetail (Cranioleuca obsoleta)
- Silky-tailed Nightjar (Antrostomus sericocaudatus)
- Helmeted Woodpecker (Celeus galeatus)