Our All About Birds website lets you listen to the songs and calls of more than 500 bird species, for free. And starting this week you can even listen to them on mobile devices such as iPhone, Android, iPad, and iPod Touch.
xeno-canto is a website dedicated to sharing wildlife sounds from all over the world. Whether you are a research scientist, a birder, or simply curious about a sound that you heard out your kitchen window, we invite you to listen, download, and explore the wildlife sound recordings in the collection.
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The AZFO Bird Sounds Library features recordings made in Arizona or, for selected rarities, from nearby areas. Its purpose is to provide a tool for learning local song dialects and calls of species that occur in Arizona and to (eventually) post multiple recordings from throughout the state to document geographical variation in song dialect.
Reliable identification of bird species in recorded audio files would be a transformative tool for researchers, conservation biologists, and birders. This demo provides a web interface for the upload and analysis of audio recordings. Based on an artificial neural network featuring almost 1,000 of the most common species of North America and Europe, this demo shows the most probable species for every second of the recording. Please note: We need to transfer the audio recordings to our servers in order to process the files. This demo is intended for large screens.
This app lets you record a file using the internal microphone of your Android or iOS device and an artificial neural network will tell you the most probable bird species present in your recording. We use the native sound recording feature of smartphones and tablets as well as the GPS-service to make predictions based on location and date. Give it a try! Please note: We need to transfer the audio recordings to our servers in order to process the files. Recording quality may vary depending on your device. External microphones will probably increase the recording quality.
Dedicated to advancing the understanding and protection of the natural world, the Cornell Lab joins with people from all walks of life to make new scientific discoveries, share insights, and galvanize conservation action. Our Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity in Ithaca, New York, is a global center for the study and protection of birds and biodiversity, and the hub for millions of citizen-science observations pouring in from around the world.
My primary interest as a postdoc within the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is understanding how wildlife populations and ecological communities respond to environmental change, and thus contributing to their conservation. I use audio data collected during large-scale monitoring projects to study North American bird communities.
Goëau, H., Kahl, S., Glotin, H., Planqué, R., Vellinga, W. P., & Joly, A. (2018). Overview of BirdCLEF 2018: monospecies vs. soundscape bird identification.In CLEF 2018 (Working Notes). [PDF]
"Great app with a certain addictiveness," writes a user in the Google Play Store about BirdNET. The app was developed by Chemnitz University of Technology and Cornell University (USA) and can identify 3,000 bird species based on their song using an AI algorithm. The app has now been downloaded over one million times from the Google Play Store. With over 5,200 reviews, it has a current score of 4.6 out of 5. "An incredible success," says Dr. Stefan Kahl delightedly. He is a researcher at the Chair of Media Informatics (headed by Prof. Dr. Maximilian Eibl) and at the Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at Cornell University (USA). He developed the app together with his American colleagues.
After the app was launched in 2018, Kahl's team counted around 180,000 downloads just one year later with no end in sight. In 2020, the app saw another increase in downloads and accesses, which the researchers attribute to Corona. "Our app provides variety, entertainment, and knowledge in the home environment or during walks in nature - something I'm sure many have longed for," says Kahl.
Recognizing bird calls is an elaborate process. That's because the core of the app is an AI-powered algorithm connected to a server at Chemnitz University of Technology. An artificial neural network determines the recorded bird voice when a request is made. Kahl and the team therefore had to ensure that the speed of the app would not suffer as the number of users - and thus search queries - and bird species increased. But Kahl assures us that they succeeded. Among other things, she recently successfully completed a test run with a friendly research team from India. Here, too, the identification rate of native bird species was 80 to 85 percent: "An excellent value. We can hardly increase this, because when recording bird calls outdoors, various ambient noises often play into it," explains Kahl. But in most cases, the app recognizes the respective bird call without any problems. The BirdNET app at a glance
- Automatic recognition of bird calls is based on short audio excerpts- App displays a visualization of the bird call's sound wave - users can see what the call looks like- Based on the audio data, but also on location and date, the app decides whether a particular bird species can be heard.- Once a species has been identified, details are displayed.- Observations can be saved and shared with friends.- Each observation is registered anonymously and evaluated for research purposes.- Feedback from users is continuously incorporated into the design of the app and the features implemented.- The app is designed to help people get to know their environment better and, ideally, to increase their ecological awareness.
The increase in identifiable bird species from 1,000 to 3,000 within three years is significant because the app can now be used worldwide. The research team had initially limited the first phase of app programming to the most common species in Europe and North America. Now, people around the world can identify their native songbirds. Another innovation concerns the app's platform. BirdNET is now available for iOS devices.Benefits for ornithological research and environmental awareness
However, the app offers added value not only for leisure, but also for ornithological research: "People who use our app are, so to speak, actively working to improve it. Because if we know where which species are, we can investigate bird migration routes or local dialects," explains Kahl. In this way, the app also makes a contribution to raising awareness of nature's biodiversity and to researching it.Background: BirdNet and privacy
The BirdNET app is designed to be data-saving and to protect the privacy of its users. In order for the app to identify songbirds, audio data must be transmitted. Location data is needed to study the migration patterns and distribution of songbirds. The transmission of this data is completely anonymous. Only a randomly generated device identifier is transmitted. The transmitted data is used exclusively for research purposes. Furthermore, the data will be stored exclusively on servers at Chemnitz University of Technology.
Have you ever wondered what birds are saying as they sing, call, quack, and drum? With these dynamic activities, you and your students will investigate why and how birds communicate and learn to appreciate the songs you hear everyday. Your download includes the Lesson Plans and Student Journal.
"Larkwire is a simple, easy-to-learn, ingenious app that will have you identifying birds by ear in no time! There is no better way to learn birds' songs (other than actually being in the field surrounded by birds and more capable birders)."
\"Bird Call\" is a series about a flock of diverse birds who run a radio station in the backyard of the clueless human family Wally and Harriet Zutman. Wally soon discovers that there is more than meets the eye with this particular flock.
Identifying birds by their song in the Australian environment can often be frustrating as many species have different local dialects in different parts of the country. In other cases, species mimic other birds so well that it is hard to tell the real bird and its imitator. Some closely related species (some flycatchers and cuckoos) sing almost identical songs, although they are often geographically isolated from each other and live in different parts of the continent.
If you want to learn to bird in Australia, you will need to learn the sounds. This package is just what you need. The bird sounds in this package were recorded all over Australia. For each species, multiple recordings are presented to provide you with a more holistic understanding of the full range of its repertoire.
Purchasing this package gives you access to a large collection of bird sounds, all within BirdsEye. It also gives you access to the BirdsEye images and text, as well as the eBird data available for the species that are included in the package.
BirdsEye is the product of many person-years of labor from hundreds of people. Money brought in from selling BirdsEye has never been enough to cover our costs even with the help of volunteers. We are able to balance our budget through generous contributions from users. One important way you can help is through a membership. If you like what we do and would like to help support future improvements, please consider becoming a member for about what it costs to buy a coffee and muffin to start a day of birding.
Development: our largest cost by far is development: fixing bugs, adapting to new versions of operating system as they comeout, adding new features and supporting new platforms. BirdsEye requires a wide range of skills: wireframing, database, iOS client, Android client, website, web app, html, etc. Most of our developers are birders who help out at reduced rates because they like what we do, but still it costs money. 2ff7e9595c
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