Help Expand Merlin in Suriname
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!
- Golden-winged Parakeet (Brotogeris chrysoptera)
- Red-fan Parrot (Deroptyus accipitrinus)
- Blue Dacnis (Dacnis cayana)
- Variable Chachalaca (Ortalis motmot)
- Red-breasted Meadowlark (Leistes militaris)
- Painted Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum pictum)
- Black-collared Hawk (Busarellus nigricollis)
- Ashy-headed Greenlet (Hylophilus pectoralis)
- Guianan Trogon (Trogon violaceus)
- Straight-billed Hermit (Phaethornis bourcieri)
- Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza)
- Painted Parakeet (Pyrrhura picta)
- Little Cuckoo (Coccycua minuta)
- Buff-cheeked Greenlet (Pachysylvia muscicapina)
- Amazonian Plain-Xenops (Xenops genibarbis)
- Savanna Hawk (Buteogallus meridionalis)
- Capuchinbird (Perissocephalus tricolor)
- Red-billed Pied Tanager (Lamprospiza melanoleuca)
- Chestnut Woodpecker (Celeus elegans)
- Tiny Tyrant-Manakin (Tyranneutes virescens)
- Pale-tipped Tyrannulet (Inezia caudata)
- Sulphury Flycatcher (Tyrannopsis sulphurea)
- Rufous-throated Antbird (Gymnopithys rufigula)
- Rufescent Tiger-Heron (Tigrisoma lineatum)
- Variegated Flycatcher (Empidonomus varius)
- Spot-breasted Woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula)
- Spotted Puffbird (Bucco tamatia)
- Bronzy Jacamar (Galbula leucogastra)
- Point-tailed Palmcreeper (Berlepschia rikeri)
- Masked Yellowthroat (Geothlypis aequinoctialis)
- Wood Stork (Mycteria americana)
- Burnished-buff Tanager (Stilpnia cayana)
- American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)
- Collared Puffbird (Bucco capensis)
- Plain-breasted Ground Dove (Columbina minuta)
- Collared Gnatwren (Microbates collaris)
- Wing-banded Antbird (Myrmornis torquata)
- White Bellbird (Procnias albus)
- Pantanal Snipe (Gallinago paraguaiae)
- White-vented Euphonia (Euphonia minuta)
- Peach-fronted Parakeet (Eupsittula aurea)
- Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius)
- Bicolored Hawk (Astur bicolor)
- Yellow-breasted Crake (Laterallus flaviventer)