LONDON: A new app that can identify the songs of 220 British birds is launched today.
Warblr, has been developed by two scientists, Florence Wilkinson and Dan Stowell, using a grant from Queen Mary University of London’s Innovation Fund.
The app which costs £3.99 works in a similar way to Shazam, the music app which identifies songs playing from a huge database of tracks.
Users make a recording with their mobile device, Warblr then provides a list of the most likely species responsible for the birdsong, along with information about each bird.
And it has built in geo-location technology so that it can build a map of sightings to help ecologists and zoologists monitor species’ habitats, and keep an eye on increases, declines and migration patterns.
When The Telegraph tested the app shortly before the launch it easily picked out a common blackbird, but failed to identify a robin.
