Help Expand Merlin in Mexico
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!
- Black-throated Bobwhite (Colinus nigrogularis)
- Green-breasted Mango (Anthracothorax prevostii)
- Plain-capped Starthroat (Heliomaster constantii)
- Mexican Sheartail (Doricha eliza)
- Dusky Hummingbird (Phaeoptila sordida)
- Canivet’s Emerald (Cynanthus canivetii)
- Xantus’s Hummingbird (Basilinna xantusii)
- Azure-crowned Hummingbird (Saucerottia cyanocephala)
- Blue-capped Motmot (Momotus coeruliceps)
- Yucatan Woodpecker (Melanerpes pygmaeus)
- Mexican Parrotlet (Forpus cyanopygius)
- White-striped Woodcreeper (Lepidocolaptes leucogaster)
- Yucatan Flycatcher (Myiarchus yucatanensis)
- San Blas Jay (Cyanocorax sanblasianus)
- Sinaloa Crow (Corvus sinaloae)
- Mangrove Swallow (Tachycineta albilinea)
- Russet-naped Wren (Campylorhynchus humilis)
- Spotted Wren (Campylorhynchus gularis)
- Gray Thrasher (Toxostoma cinereum)
- Russet Nightingale-Thrush (Catharus occidentalis)
- West Mexican Euphonia (Euphonia godmani)
- Black-cowled Oriole (Icterus prosthemelas)
- Orange Oriole (Icterus auratus)
- Black-backed Oriole (Icterus abeillei)
- Orange-breasted Bunting (Passerina leclancherii)