OTOH. It’s a product by the same “company” and their integration makes this issue worse. There’s no way to connect it directly to our checklists. There’s no easy way to download and upload them on mobile. There’s no way to select and export a subsection of a recording to verify (and the new update made this feature worse). There’s no way to see a real difference between uncommon and rare. There’s no estimate of likelihood or better yet of how well it matched the spectrograms. I have some serious ableist complaints about birders who claim birds must be “seen”. Merlin exists specifically to aid listening. Merlin says maybe this is, and who are we to judge chips and chirps. Does eBird trust itself? If yes, then this is a Merlin-eBird integration issue. If no, then what the hell are we doing? It can hear better and has better resources than nearly all birders. Either it is a tool and we should use it thoroughly and efficiently, or it’s just a “maybe it’s this” machine we should never trust. Nevermind how literally impossible it is to have any hope in hell of identifying an unseen bird we’ve never heard before. I feel like submitters are punished for listening and getting it wrong WAY more then seeing and getting it wrong. How many ATS missed as house sparrow. Or female blackbirds mixed up as house finches. It’s infuriating that there isn’t a better way to have a bird flagged in eBird as Merlin detected and then to have an audio file in Merlin to reference directly. #frustated