Merlin is great for identifying birds, but I could never understand how to just post the information to the community for them to verify the observation. Compared to Seek / iNaturalist I find the uploading process complicated and I still have no idea how to do it.

I'm a big fan of Merlin and learning more about its development changed my perspective on software development! I wrote about that here: https://digitalseams.com/blog/what-birdsong-and-backends-can...

There's Merlin and then there's Birdnet too https://birdnet.cornell.edu/. Both by Cornell.

Aaand if you like birds, Listers documentary is a lot of fun https://youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo