Robin Sandfort
@capreolus.bsky.social
wildlife biologist | conservation technologist @ capreolus e.U and micromacro GmbH | mastodon: @capreolus@ecoevo.social #tech4wildlife
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Superstar beim Eurovision Song Contest ist für uns 2026 klar der Schlammpeitzger. Zusammen mit Gerhald Käfel dürften wir im Museum Niederösterreich in St. Pölten für das ORF Mayrs Magazin einen Beitrag über die Bioakustik des Schlammpeitzger drehen. on.orf.at/video/143120...
1/ Survey! 📝 How are automated species identifications from passive acoustic monitoring verified and quality-assured in practice? #bioacoustics Take part here ➡️ forms.gle/Ak3eYgZivUPa...
Verification and quality assurance in Passive Acoustic Monitoring
This survey explores how automated acoustic species identifications are verified and quality‑assured in practice, and how uncertainty is communicated and used. The survey takes approximately 20 minut...
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Wild Boar in 3D 🐗 Depth Anything 3 transforms 2D camera trap images into measurable 3D space: → Automated metric measurements → Distance sampling without markers → Morphometrics without invasive field work Game-changer for wildlife monitoring! Code: depth-anything-3.github.io #AI #tech4wildife
New paper out: How AI could enhance biodiversity in energy planning? We analyzed wind projects in Austria - found huge data gaps in environmental assessments. AI-supported biodiversity monitoring (bioacoustics, camera traps, eDNA) could change the game. doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2025.2538951
A monumental taxonomy unification effort has just been published - thanks to all those who've collaborated for years to make this happen! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/avi...
Birds of the World - AviList: A Unified Global Checklist of the World’s Birds is Now Available
AviList, a unified global checklist of birds, that provides the most current and authoritative taxonomy of birds around the world was released today by experts in taxonomy, nomenclature, and bioinform...
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Passen Vögel ihre Gesänge an den Verkehrslärm an? Mehr über die faszinierende Welt der Akustik erfahren Sie bei einem Open House am internationalen Tag gegen Lärm am 30. April am Institut für Schallforschung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. www.oeaw.ac.at/news/wie-die...
Wie die Ökoakustik die Artenvielfalt überwacht
Passen Vögel ihre Gesänge an den Verkehrslärm an? Wie verändert menschlicher Lärm die Tierwelt? Und was kann die Wissenschaft tun, um die Artenvielfalt besser zu erfassen? Die Forschung liefert darauf...
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Brogi: wolves kill fallow deer, then only return to eat 3% of carcass. Wild boars eat 80% of what's left. For those still unaware of how wolves in Europe are different from those in North America, check Fig. 1: this is happening 3 km from the leaning tower! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Intra-guild competition and ecosystem services of mammal scavengers in a new colonized wolf landscape - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Carcass utilization by scavengers is crucial for ecosystem dynamics, influencing energy transfer and nutrient cycling. Through the provision of unconsumed carcasses, the return of wolves (Canis lupus)...
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Do you use 3D imaging like CT or MRI for research, teaching, outreach, or art? Check out our new article featuring a detailed workflow for producing 3D cinematic renderings―from tissue-level to whole-organism details―with stunning realism! doi.org/10.1016/j.is... @helsinkiuni.bsky.social
Running #Deepseek with its Multimodal model Janus-Pro-7b locally is really crazy. I show this camera trap picture and ask: "Explain this picture. What animal species do you see?" See the answer in the follow up post. #tech4wildlife
New paper out @science.org shows that bats surf warm storm fronts to power continental migrations 🌀⛈️🦇🤙 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... By Edward Hurme; Ivan Lenzi; Martin Wikelski; Timm Wild; and Dina Dechmann
Bats surf storm fronts during spring migration
Long-distance migration, common in passerine birds, is rare and poorly studied in bats. Piloting a 1.2-gram IoT (Internet of Things) tag with onboard processing, we tracked the daily location, tempera...
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Last season we opened our first bioacoustics exhibition in the schlossORTH National Park Centre at the Donau-Auen National Park. @puschmann.bsky.social designed the wonderful exhibition. You might hear and feel the sounds of fish, bats, birds and insects. #tech4wildlife puschmann.studio/Donau-Auen
Könnt ihr mir erklären wo ihr neuen Follower alle herkommt? Habe ich etwas verpasst?
Nice to see our underwater research covered. #tech4wildlife
noe.ORF.at [ORFodon]@orf-niederoesterreich.orfodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 2y agoBioakustiker erforschen aktuell die Unterwasserklangwelt des Nationalpark Donau-Auen. Dabei fiel auf, dass zahlreiche Arten überwiegend nachts kommunizieren. Laut Wissenschaftern liegt das daran, dass es tagsüber unerträglich laut im Wasser ist. https://noe.orf.at/stories/3270868/ […]
Finally we got our #SilentCities dataset published! With 261 colleagues around the globe we collected audio when human isolation during the #covid19 pandemic had drastically changed the #soundscape of the urban ecosystem. Birds vs cars #tech4wildlife www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic
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New letter: Artificial Intelligence will change the field of Environmental Assessment – but are we ready for it? What are the risks involved and what do we need to harness its power to help overcome the challenges of biodiversity and habitat loss? #AI #biodiv #EA www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks to Phil Atkin we have our first pi-pistrelle time-expanding bat detectors running! Ready for some ultrasonic adventures. #tech4wildlife
Was fliegt morgen noch mit den Böllern durch die dunkle Nacht? Auf diesem Vogelradar leuchten die Niederlande um kurz nach 12 Uhr auf, weil fast 400,000 Vögel auffliegen und fliehen! Über eine Stunde und das ganze Land werden Millionen (nicht nur) Vögel aufgescheucht. #silvesterohneböller!
Vielen Dank an das Bundesforschungszentrum für Wald! Unsere Bioakustik-Vernetzung ist der erste wichtige Schritt in Richtung einer Implementierung des passiven bioakustischen Monitorings als wichtiges Werkzeug zur Bewältigung der globalen Biodiversitätskrise. Packen wir es an! #biodiv
