Can I use ImageJ to assign categories and manually count species in an image?

Posted by jphillips on
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Hello,
I'm hoping to use ImageJ to sort species of birds from aerial photographs. The pictures have multiple nesting bird species in colonies. I'd like to assign an icon, like a simple dot, over each individual bird, and have it automatically create a table counting the bird and with the species name. For example, in one photograph, if I placed a yellow dot on each black-necked stilt, and a red dot on each American Avocet, the program would keep a tally of the number of each species. Has anyone done something similar or know how I can go about doing this?
Thanks!