Xeno-canto
@xeno-canto.bsky.social
20+ years! of sharing open wildlife sounds from around the world. Birds, Grasshoppers, Frogs, Bats, Land Mammals. 12k recordists, 13k species, 1 million recordings. Open data is not free! Consider a donation https://xeno-canto.org/donate
If you're having a stressful day, why not sit back, relax & immerse yourself in the reconstructed soundscape of a Jurassic forest. Based on ingenious analyses of the fossilized wings of extinct insects, from a paper in latest issue of @pnas.org. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (Sound up, obviously.)🦗🔊🧪
New publication about my art piece "Alakaʻi 1777", which uses a mathematical model of the syrinx to reconstruct the lost song culture of an extinct bird called the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō! This project took over the last year of my life in the best possible way ❤️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Alakaʻi 1777 – using immersive sound to communicate the nonhuman cultural extinction crisis | Biotechnology Design | Cambridge Core
Alakaʻi 1777 – using immersive sound to communicate the nonhuman cultural extinction crisis - Volume 4
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... cool.
Sensory Ecology Lab@sensoryecology.bsky.social · 2w ago“A symphony of insect songs rang through the Jurassic rainforest, and scientists have now found the traces of this ancient soundscape… the notes these insects played by strumming their wings can be reproduced” #scicomm #paleontology #bioacoustics www.sciencenews.org/article/hear... 🧪 🦗 🐙
Sorting out the history of whaling pressure on five populations of blue whales in the Indian Ocean and SW Pacific. So many years of work went into this monumental collaboration with many many coauthors. So pleased to see this paper finally published. doi.org/10.1111/mms....
Blue whale news@bluewhalenews.bsky.social · 2y agoPublished! Our huge effort to obtain catch series for each of five overlapping populations of pygmy blue whales. Big collaboration with 30+ coauthors using spatial patterns of blue whale song (unique to each population) to figure out where each resides 1/n
Excited to share our new publication in Bioacoustics today, describing the vocal repertoire of white-nosed coatis! 🐾 We combined traditional acoustic analyses with an unsupervised approach to characterise the complexity and diversity of their vocal behaviour. doi.org/10.1080/0952...
Wiley Ecology, Environment and Sustainability@wileyecology.bsky.social · 2mo agoStill time to submit! Passive Acoustic Monitoring (#PAM) is reshaping bird research & conservation. We're calling for original research & reviews to capture current capabilities & future direction. @avianbiology.bsky.sociall #Ecosky #AvianBiology #Ornithology ➡️ https://bit.ly/4vJZZ5p
The next Sonic Connexions virtual meet-up will be on Oct 6 and will be focused on students!! If you are graduating soon, or have graduated recently, sign up to do a short talk about your research! 📅 Sign-up deadline: September 22, 2026 lnkd.in/ex2YeQXy @asa-news.bsky.social #bioacoustics 🐟🪰🔊🧪
It's 2026, and you still carry that parachute? Key practices for ethical research during scientific expeditions. By @nelsyninor.bsky.social et al. in @conservationsp.bsky.social @society4conbio.bsky.social conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #expeditions #science #museums
.... someone from Brazil on XC perhaps?
Dr Mark D. Scherz@markscherz.bsky.social · last mo.Can anyone help me track down a book by W. C.A. Bokermann? 'Lista anotada das localidades tipo de anfíbios brasileiros' published 1966 in São Paulo: Servicio de Documentacão, Universidade Rural São Paulo. Looks like no PDFs exist, but we need some of the data in there! #canhazpdf 🧪🐸🇧🇷
.... considering what we see from a really-many-shot classifier running in the background on XC on about 600 species this sounds amazing. We should perhaps read up on it.
Earth Species Project (ESP)@earthspecies.bsky.social · last mo.📢 New Preprint 📢 Today we're releasing BirdCODE: a deep learning model for zero-shot sound event detection and classification across 9,000+ bird species. BirdCODE’s model weights and detections are now openly available and ready to use! 📄 Learn more: earthspecies.org/2026/08/20/b...
... this is something we feel strongly about. Projects building on databases should be allowed, well encouraged really, to allocate funds in proposals to support them.
Neil Hall@neilhall.bsky.social · last mo.Biological Databases are critical infrastructure - not projects. As so much effort is put into harnessing AI to solve all our problems, we are allowing the foundational data resources crumble. Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A pleasure to have contributed some science and graphics to The Wonder of Birds at the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk; inspired by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social’s words and Jackie Morris’s art, curated by Antonia Harrison. Free admission, through 3 January 2027.
New paper: "Twelve quick tips for applying deep learning to animal sounds" https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014604 - led by Burooj Ghani and Leonie Baier, distilling lots of tips & handy links based on our computational #bioacoustics recent experience
Twelve quick tips for applying deep learning to animal sounds
Deep learning is transforming the study of animal sound, enabling the automated identification of species, individuals, behaviors, and ecological patterns from large collections of recordings. While bioacoustic machine-learning models are growing more powerful, many biologists—ecologists, behavioral scientists, conservationists—and others working with acoustic data feel unprepared to navigate the computational workflows required to implement them. This article presents practical guidelines covering the full lifecycle of bioacoustic machine learning, including problem definition, data sourcing and annotation, model training, evaluation, deployment, reproducibility, and ethical considerations. Rather than providing a linear checklist, the guidelines outline an iterative framework for building science-led workflows, leveraging transfer learning and open-source tools, evaluating models based on the real-world cost of errors, and addressing domain shift under variable field conditions. Ultimately, this workflow demystifies the software-engineering process, providing a low-barrier and reproducible pathway for researchers applying machine learning to animal sound.
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... as previous winner (2024) we are curious to see who will win this time.
Open Science NL@opensciencenl.bsky.social · last mo.Who deserves recognition for making research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR)? Nominate a researcher or team for the RDNL Dutch Data Prize 2026. Deadline: 30 September 2026. More info and nominate: edu.nl/h8bxj #FAIRdata #ResearchData
What would it take for AI to decode animal communication? In our new opinion piece, we argue that animal signals should not be understood only by how similar they sound, but by how the receiver perceives them. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
Interested in scientific research on animal and human acoustic communication? Looking for training in bioacoustics? The ENES Bioacoustics Lab website has a fresh new look 👉 www.eneslab.com #bioacoustics
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Home page of the ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab.
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Nelsy completed the third field season of her PhD! Nelsy researches the vocal behaviour of Colombian birds with a focus on female voices, vocal mimicry, and seedeaters. Congratulations @nelsyninor.bsky.social! [📷: S. Rosado Hidalgo] @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @animbehsociety.bsky.social
Nice new work on cryptic species in Chamaeza antthrushes. With lots of XC input to boot, such as xeno-canto.org/4998 by Nick Athanas from Ceara', Brazil, when XC just started.
XC4998 Short-tailed Antthrush (Chamaeza campanisona)
Apparently the nominate race, but the song is different - longer with a distinctive ending.
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Alberta Claw@albertonykus.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew species of antthrush, the Baturité antthrush (Chamaeza baturitensis, right): www.scielo.br/j/zool/a/qbw... 🪶🧪 (📷Eduardo P. Brettas)
Nishant Bhagwat, maker of the great annotation tool Spectrolipi (spectrolipi.com), has just shared 2800 recordings from India on XC. Below a fantastic Purple Sunbird, xeno-canto.org/1160412
New publication: BatBuddy: An open-source tool to detect #bat feeding buzzes with potential for social call detection. #bioacoustics #batbehaviour #deeplearning #foraging doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
Every day’s a school day… there’s a great paper in the @derbyshirebirds.bsky.social 2024 Report by Mark Cocker, on mimicry in Common Redstarts. He recorded 56(!) species in Redstart songs in 2025 - listen to a sample here and see how many you can get! #UKbirding #ornithology xeno-canto.org/1048967
XC1048967 Common Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus)
I examined the recording for mimicry. And suggest the following examples in the course of the nine + minutes. The intitial numbers 1-63 refer to the song units in sequence. A question mark immediatel...
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... check this out: a xeno-cantified Science paper comparing brdsong worldwide. Very gratifying. #bioacoustics
Quentin Bacquelé@quentinbacquele.bsky.social · 2mo ago1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:
... let's sonify that: xeno-canto.org/species/Lath...
Dr swift parrot@teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 2mo agoDelighted that we have just published a new profile for the regent parrot with @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social - check it out for a nice read about a fabulous bird birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/...
... in any case this does seem to be the first known sound recording. Check "Shaun's list": xeno-canto.org/article/241
Xeno-canto@xeno-canto.bsky.social · 2mo ago... here is another one for you. Or not? Lost birds site says "found" but does not give details. Courtesy of the inimitalble Phil Gregory: xeno-canto.org/species/Heni...
... here is another one for you. Or not? Lost birds site says "found" but does not give details. Courtesy of the inimitalble Phil Gregory: xeno-canto.org/species/Heni...
American Bird Conservancy@abcbirds.bsky.social · 2mo agoLost bird? Not anymore! The Ghana Cuckooshrike has been documented for the first time in 13 years by IBCP researchers Stephanie Bartlett & Paulo Ditzel. Read the story: abcbirds.info/4vD4j6g @rewildorg.bsky.social and @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social
Do you study female birds? What field approaches have you used to target females? Join our conversation about considerations and methods for field work on female birds! americanornithology.org/studying-fem...
Studying female birds in the field: Challenges, suggestions, and shared experience - American Ornithological Society
At the AOS 2024 annual meeting, fellow ornithologists and I were invited to present academic talks during a female bird symposium organized by Joanna Wu aimed at highlighting recent research on female...
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