Submitted by voxpoplar in game_theories
joke title but actually various academic projects have started leveraging machine learning for less evil purposes than it's normally for and you can use phone apps that take photo/audio data and try and identify plants and animals!
I only just discovered these so I don't know how effective they are and they are certainly very much dependent on where you live and what previous data has been collected for your local species
BirdNET - identify birds via birdsong. Says it covers North America and Europe.
iNaturalist - Identify both plants and animals by photo data. I think the biggest of this type of thing.
Seek - simpler version of iNaturalist aimed at kids/families that has achievements
Flora Incognita - Identify plants based on photos. Says it's trained on plants from Central Europe but lots of plants are widespread so maybe will get you something related to what you're looking at elsewhere? I dunno I'm guessing.