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Sharing wildlife sounds from around the world. Birds, Grasshoppers, Frogs, Bats, Land Mammals. 11k recordists, 12.5k species, 930k recordings.
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LOOKING BACK in IBIS Song complexity is associated with habitat quality in an upland passerine | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Javier García, Paola Laiolo, Susana Suárez-Seoane | #ornithology 🪶

V cool study, shows that in this 🐸 frog species, females emit ultrasonic courtship calls to attract mates (in most known species, males calls + females exhibit phonotaxis towards calls) Authors hypothesize female calls minimize cost of finding mates #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

... check this out. Heavily xeno-cantofied. Pity the last sets of Orthoptera on XC were not included, but hey: arxiv.org/abs/2503.15074 "InsectSet459: an open dataset of insect sounds for bioacoustic machine learning." 32000+ recordings of about 1000 #orthoptera species on XC now. #bioacoustics

New from Prior @adam-fishbein.bsky.social et al. (Ball & Dooling groups @ UMD) 🐦 How much do female zebra finches care about syllable-level details of male song? 🐦 To remove confounds of operant conditioning, they measure female calls in response to playbacks #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

... as you may know BirdNET is heavily xenocantofied. We're evaluating a spin-off, AvesEcho on XC at the moment.

... let's sonify that with a soundscape that includes Brachycepahlus dacnis. Also tiny. Courtesy Henry Miller Alexandre! xeno-canto.org/965718

... go BirdCLEF!

... gratifying to see some XC references there.

Observation of female song in Chlorophonia sclateri (Puerto Rican Euphonia) | jco.birdscaribbean.o... | Journal of Caribbean Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

Black Scoter's distinctive call was crucial evidence for justifying the split from Common Scoter bioone.org/journals/the... h/t @ahjharrop.bsky.social for spotting this rec with both taxa xeno-canto.org/970885. Now waiting for the Liverpool bird to fly over my house #Nocmig #UKBirding #Ornithology

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Differences in Vocal Display During Territorial Encounters between Male Grasshopper Warblers Locustella naevia and River Warblers L. fluviatilis | doi.org/10.3161/0001... | Acta Ornithologica | #ornithology 🪶

Want to learn birdsong and calls? 🐦 Join a BTO session ➡️ www.bto.org/events We’ve got events across the country this year with our expert teams, including an online training course. #Ornithology 📷 Robin singing by Philip Croft/BTO

Birdsong on BBC 4. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... This incredible documentary / portrait of Irish ornithologist Sean Ronayne is the starting point for today's Dawn Chorus in BBC Radio 3 Sunday Breakfast. Do yourselves a huge favour and watch it!

A study to characterize and describe the acoustic parameters of frog calls in the high Andean ecosystems of northern Ecuador, Carchi province: doi.org/10.3897/zook... #anurans #bioacoustics #conservation

Does anyone know an audio hash or audio fingerprint library, that works also with ultrasonic high-bandwidth sound? (i.e. not just audible frequencies). We want to hash soundfiles (WAV, FLAC, etc) in a database system to match duplicates. #signalprocessing #audiophile #audioengineering

let's sonify that: xeno-canto.org/178537

... spread the word! BirdCLEF is back. Alive and kicking since 2014. www.kaggle.com/competitions...

... Xeno-canto has been involved with BirdCLEF right from the start in 2014. A highlight of every year since then. We're quite proud of it really. Mighty pleased to see it return to the Neotropics where XC and BirdCLEF started. Spread the word!

Wild Bird Acoustics is delighted to announce that a very special interview with Teet Sirotkin will drop the weekend. Some incredible audio here from the far north of Sweden, Norway and the Baltic States. Don’t miss it….

Ah look, it says "learn more about xeno-canto, the crowd-sourced database this study drew from". :-)

.. by Mindlin and coworkers.

New paper on the demographic drivers of cultural evolution in Great Tit song published today - epic work led by @nilomr.bsky.social with help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social Ella Cole & Sara Keen. Why did we do this, and what did we find? 🧵 follows: 1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ℹ️ He creado una página web para difundir mi trabajo de grabación de sonidos de la naturaleza. Cualquier opinión o crítica, será bien recibida. Gracias a tod@s por seguirme. sononatura.com

Respiratory contributions to birdsong—evolutionary considerations and open questions | doi.org/10.1098/rstb... | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | #ornithology 🪶

... one of our favourite articles on XC is "Shaun's list": a list of bird species not yet sound recorded by Shaun Peters. Check it out here: xeno-canto.org/article/241. And when you decide to go for it, please record anything you come across: most must be in places rarely visited and poorly known.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Leapt out of bed with great excitement at 00:20 last night when I heard swans flying by! They were heading east & I managed to grab my phone to record. Thanks to @sconebirding.bsky.social for ID pic: they've 'fence staples' in the spectrogram that look to be a Bewick's thing. #nocmig #norfolkbirding

.... yesss, Night Parrots. Cool. xeno-canto.org/collection/s...