[cobirds] Re: Important notes on Cassia Crossbill and Merlin

Hi Norm (and other android users),

I managed to get my Android phone to figure out the Cassia Crossbill calls I recorded yesterday near Silverthorne. In my recordings, I selected 1 of them that I thought had the Cassia in it (originally Merlin only identified Red Crossbill) and then tapped the Edit button on the top right. Then I selected Change Location >, then selected the Choose... option. Then I entered Albion, ID in the Search by City or Zip.. and when it returned that location, I selected it. Merlin then re-evaluated my recording and identified Cassia Crossbill in addition to Red Crossbill.

So, if you are looking for the Cassia's in the next few days, record everything in Merlin, then try this when you get home. It might work out in the field too if you have cell service, but I don't know for certain.

Hope that helps folks.

Cheers,

Adrian Lakin,

Mead, CO

On Monday, July 25, 2022 at 7:23:46 AM UTC-6 Norm Erthal wrote:

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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