[HN Gopher] BirdLingo: A birdsong learning game
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BirdLingo: A birdsong learning game
Author : selfserve
Score : 145 points
Date : 2024-02-10 05:37 UTC (17 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (jessicalieb.itch.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (jessicalieb.itch.io)
| danielskogly wrote:
| Very charming, and also quite nice to learn the various sounds!
| rwdf wrote:
| Nice game! I would like to see the scientific names of the birds,
| too.
| stephen123 wrote:
| That was fun. I like birds but I'm no twitcher, spent a good
| 10min going through getting better at recognising the sounds.
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| It would be fun if you could pick a country the birds are from.
| Australian birds sound silly.
| larodi wrote:
| Wonderful effort, but it would be indeed magnificent to show the
| texts in local language - for them children to understand around
| the world. Bird names are definitely not alike across
| translations...
| schobi wrote:
| Wonderful game!
|
| Feature request: please localize... I hardly know the bird names
| in my language. Learning the English names is not helping.
| henjodottech wrote:
| Wonderful. Can also recommend Anki decks, there's good ones with
| calls and they're localized. I only studied the European one.
| Also to supplement, nothing beats birdNET. Walk around a forest
| with the app on and match the bird names to the actual songs
| you're hearing.
| the_alchemist wrote:
| I like Merlin better, it is the 'live match' version. With
| birdnet you have to record and submit. Both are from the
| Cornell Lab for ornithology.
| henjodottech wrote:
| I'm not familiar, will check it out thanks.
| seafoamteal wrote:
| Absolutely lovely! I got invested without even realizing. Like
| some other people have said, showing the scientific names of the
| birds and also the option to switch to other languages would be
| great features.
| hermitcrab wrote:
| We get a lot of birds in our garden, but I'm not great at
| connecting the bird calls with the birds. Hopefully this will
| help, thanks!
| zeristor wrote:
| This is excellent.
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| I have been using the amazing Merlin up to ID bird song, I'd like
| to recognise bird song without needing an app, but I still have a
| long way to go.
| viraser wrote:
| great game, thanks.
| luma wrote:
| Neat! Others have mentioned language localization, but I think
| the main missing piece here is species localization. Of the first
| set of birds presented to me, exactly none are native to my area.
|
| Learning bird calls is like an outdoor superpower but I think
| it'd be a little better if you could focus the user on songs they
| are going to hear in their area.
| smackay wrote:
| Birds have accents, or at least their calls and songs vary by
| region. They're generally recognisable as being similar but
| sometimes it can be confusing. Throw in species like starlings
| or bluethroats (Luscinia svecica) which are accomplished mimics
| and life gets complicated.
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| Still, it's a great idea. Just listening to a blackbird (Turdus
| merula) or song thrush (Turdus philomelos) singing on a nice
| Spring evening is life-affirming all by itself.
| dannyfritz07 wrote:
| eBird offers a good sound or image quiz. You can choose the
| location, time of year, and rarity of the birds it presents you
| in the game. https://ebird.org/quiz/
| Hnrobert42 wrote:
| Was anyone able to load this on mobile? I tried Firefox Focus and
| Safari. Both got to the game, but then it failed load. :-(
| endofreach wrote:
| Very cool, i will try it out. I was actually kind of looking for
| something like that. Looks very well made.
|
| Super OT: I just think the lastname "lieb" seems unfortunate as
| the ending for a subdomain of a site named itch.io...
| zug_zug wrote:
| Love all the effort put into this.
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| I don't know if I'm the typical user, but I came into it with
| eagerness but left feeling like I was pressed into studying. I'm
| the type of person who likes to learn one a day and feel like
| that's a good job (e.g. wordle). Most of the birdcalls I'm
| learning are fun/incidentally through the IOS port of wingspan,
| which I enjoy immensely.
| xandrius wrote:
| This post made me finally want to create an account and stop
| lurking HN :D
|
| Cool project! I've been working on a similar project myself.
| We've started with South African birds (as we have a connection
| with a local charity there) but plan to expand to different
| countries around the world to support different habitats and more
| localised species.
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| If anyone is interested to check it out, I'd love some feedback:
| https://birdle.co.za (it's both web and an app)
| Izmaki wrote:
| Great idea! :)
| xandrius wrote:
| Thanks!
| MoOmer wrote:
| Super fun! Some feedback on stability:
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| Crashed on iPhone XS Max, iOS 17.4 Firefox and safari
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| We were able to play the Garden round through to the end on an
| android tablet (Firefox), but when we selected woodland, it froze
| after the first bird.
| Izmaki wrote:
| Forced full-screen sucks on a 49" ultra-wide monitor, lol.
| zcw100 wrote:
| I have a question about bird songs in general. Why is a chorus of
| birds sound so pleasant and not cacophonous? Have they evolved
| songs that sound pleasant together? Have we evolved to think it
| sounds good? Is it just random chance?
| comboy wrote:
| I love it, thanks :)
| frabbit wrote:
| Fantastic! Well done. As someone that is not a twitcher but is
| interested in knowing what I hear around me on a walk this was
| easy to use with a low effort entry point.
| defart wrote:
| Somehow i feel that Birdolingo would be a better name :)
| bootsmann wrote:
| While we're at it, if you like birds I can highly recommend
| people to get the Merlin Bird ID app for their phones. It has a
| function where you can put it on your table and it will highlight
| all the birds whose songs it can hear. Its not perfect (for
| instance it struggles with the european milvus) but its mostly
| accurate and especially useful if there is a bird you don't
| recognize.
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