There is recent work along these lines for birds specifically, e.g., [1]. It's not anywhere near human accuracy and I think it's only a couple hundred species

There is recent work along these lines for birds specifically, e.g., [1]. It's not anywhere near human accuracy and I think it's only a couple hundred species but it does kind of work. [1] http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~farrell/birdlets/iccv11-camera-ready.pdf http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~farrell/birdlets/iccv11-camer...