[cobirds] Important notes on Cassia Crossbill and Merlin

Joey Kellner, Ric Olson, Steve Larson and I found 4 Cassia Crosssbills (one adult male and 3 female or immatures) at the location described by Nathan. This area has numerous dead trees with lots of cones remaining that the Cassia fed on. Many times we used Merlin to attempt to identify crossbills. Merlin would identify Red Crossbills even when distant. When we heard lower pitched crossbills, sometimes right overhead and feeding in close trees, Merlin would come up with no match. Yesterday Steve Larson and I found if you turn off location in Merlin on an iPhone and play Cassia calls, it immediately identified them correctly. I have not been able to solve this on a droid.

Norm Erthal

Arvada

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