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Hi Chip and everyone else.
I would caution you and everyone else not to assume that Merlin is necessarily wrong. In your instance it is theoretically possible that Merlin and your smartphone together "heard" a Steller's Jay that you couldn't hear perhaps because it was a distant bird.
I notice this all the time and I'm sure most of you who use the Sound ID feature of Merlin have noticed that Merlin picks up a few more species that we can actually hear, and then when we listen carefully we can actually hear and sometimes see them.
Just because Merlin mentions a species, it's not necessarily what you are hearing. All smartphones have better sound gathering capabilities than our ears, like an astrophotograph that can show detailed features and even colors of nebulae for example that we can't ever see looking through even a large-objective astronomical telescope.
So one feature Merlin has which I find excellent and useful is that when a bird is calling, the name of the species lights up every time it calls. If for example you heard the RTHA but the yellow light did not light up the name of the species name in Merlin every time it called, then Merlin was likely hearing something that's relatively subliminal to your hearing.
Try it next time.
Ajit Antony
Central Park, Colorado
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