A team of researchers led by computer scientist Serge Belongie of the University of California, San Diego, has good news for birdwatchers: They have developed an iPad app that, with a little help from a human user, can identify most North American birds.

If you are a birder and are interested in helping with this joint project between UCSD, Caltech, Cornell and Berkeley to create an interactive field guide using computer vision, please sign up for this mailing list: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/labs/CV. Thank you!

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