iNaturalist

iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.

iNaturalist

Similar category: Merlin Bird ID [1]. Uses audio to identify the birds around you.

[1] https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

Merlin Bird ID - Home

Identify Bird Songs and Calls Sound ID listens to the birds around you and shows real-time suggestions for who’s singing. Compare your recording to the songs and calls in Merlin to confirm what you heard. Sound ID works completely offline, so you can identify birds you hear no matter where you ar

Merlin Bird ID - Free, instant bird identification help and guide for thousands of birds
There's Merlin and then there's Birdnet too https://birdnet.cornell.edu/. Both by Cornell.
BirdNET – AI-Powered Sound ID

I've been using birdnet, but it seems to want an internet connection to do the identification and sometimes that is dicey when there is a bird that I want to identify. (Also birds seem to shut up around the time you get the app open.)

I'm going to give Merlin a try - the app has UI to download the network for offline use.

Requiring an internet connection for a nature app is absurd. As annoying as it is I get why a big tech company like Google fails at this sort of thing, many of their employees probably never leave a city and so the products always work well for them. But a nature app has no excuse, normal usage will get blocked by that all the time.