Congratulations to Nikita Babych for achieving the best animal sound classifier in #BirdCLEF 2025. And congratulations for a really clear write-up. And congratulations for being able to do so well from an air-raid shelter in Ukraine! https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/birdclef-2025/discussion/583577 #bioacoustics

New study analyzed sound production in 𝘓𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘪, a vulnerable catfish from Brazil. Could passive acoustics aid conservation? Read more, here: doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70001 #Bioacoustics #FishSounds #Conservation #AcousticEcology #JFB #FishSci

http://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70001

Our paper on the study of vocal complexity of #orcas is out.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103211

In this #bioacoustics work, we computationally analyse passive acoustic recordings spanning 5 years of orcas in the wild. We perform DL-based automatic classification of calls and measure complexity. Resulting metrics are contrasted to pod sizes, as a way to approach the social complexity hypothesis in #cetaceans

Great collaboration with Paul Best, Marion Poupard, Paul Spong, Helena Symonds and Hervé Glotin

I'm excited - the evaluation data for BioDCASE has been released! https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2025/ New acoustic data from forests and oceans, for testing machine learning's ability to listen to wildlife! I'd love to know if your team will submit a solution to #BioDCASE. #machinelearning #ai4good #bioacoustics

New video lecture: "AI for wildlife sounds: How best to retrain deep learning models for bioacoustics" https://youtu.be/VC9XLvIbHKU (This is the talk I gave at the Urban Sound Symposium 2025.) #machinelearning #ai4good #bioacoustics

And here is a recording of the song of the Yellow-breasted Bunting.
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#fieldrecording #bioacoustics #nature #sound #birdsong #birds

Here is the recording of the courtship calls.
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#fieldrecording #bioacoustics #nature #sound #birdsong #birds

"New Season, New Tools: Yellowhammer Monitoring with BioacousticAI" https://bioacousticai.eu/new-season-new-tools-yellowhammer-monitoring-with-bioacousticai/ -- an update from Ilaria Morandi and Minkyung Kwak on our @bioacousticai network. #bioacoustics

Here is a Pine Bunting I recorded in #Mongolia. These where found almost anywhere on our trip.
The song is very similar to the Yellow Hammer.

Find more information about the bird here: https://ebird.org/species/pinbun/
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#BirdsOfMastodon #birdsong #bioacoustics #fieldrecording #BirdPhotography

Heute mal mein minimales Setup für #birding by #bike ausprobiert. War ein toller Ausflug ins Ostragehege in #Dresden
Viele Nachtigallen gehört und Stare und Jungtiere an einer Bruthöhle beobachten können.
Konnte auch eine schöne Tonaufnahme von einer Nachtigall machen.
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#BirdsOfMastodon #vogel #birdsong #bioacoustics #sound #nature

Fantastic interview with Dan Menill about #birdsound and #bioacoustics.

https://thewarblers.buzzsprout.com/1784269/episodes/17043353-exploring-bird-sounds-with-dan-mennill

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An #essay by Divya Mudappa and me in which "we explore the sounds and silences of a tropical #rainforest landscape that has been our home for the last quarter of a century: the #Anamalai or #elephant hills. Taking inspiration from the Australian aboriginal idea of the “songline,” we describe how the acoustic world formed by the sounds of nature intimately connects us to the land and its #ecology, history, and tapestry of lifeforms."
https://www.coonoorandco.com/a-songline-in-the-elephant-hills/
#naturewriting #bioacoustics #wildlife

Widlife Acoustics has a bunch of interesting #workshops coming up in May. If you are interested in #bioacoustics and passive acoustic monitoring this seems like a good place to start or continu your journey.
Best of all, it's free!
https://www.wildlifeacoustics.com/resources/training-courses/virtual-community-training
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#research #acoustics #knowledge

The people at Cornell are doing fantastic work on everything #birds. I realy love their projects and how they share knwoledge.
Some time ago I joined the mailing list for their Bioacoustalks, which are always interesting and give a good insight on current research in the field of #bioacoustics .
You can find previos talks on their YouTube channel. Here is the link to the Bioacoustalks: https://www.birds.cornell.edu/ccb/bioacoustalks/
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#acoustics #research #education #science #sound

Preprint from us: "Clustering and novel class recognition: evaluating bioacoustic deep learning feature extractors" https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06710 -- Vincent Kather evaluates a big set of deep embeddings for #bioacoustics

Session 3.1 A Sea of Sound: Marine Bioacoustics and Anthropogenic Noise hosted by Fabio Viotti and Catherine Golinvaux
Submit your abstract now to join #ICYMARE2025
https://www.icymare.com/about-the-conference/call-for-abstracts/
#callforabstracts #bioacoustics #anthropogenicnoise #oceanconservation #icymare #oceanscience #oceandecade #marinescience #earlycareerresearchers

🎤🐁 Someone fell asleep on their keyboard while listing every #microphone model known to man—and rat. In the riveting saga of #Avisoft #Bioacoustics, we learn that #recording #mouse #squeaks with #audiophile levels of precision is apparently crucial, and that there's a "Knowles FG" in all of us. 🎶🔊
https://avisoft.com/recorder-tests/ #models #sound #technology #HackerNews #ngated

Microphone Input Noise Comparison – Avisoft Bioacoustics

https://avisoft.com/recorder-tests/

#HackerNews #MicrophoneInputNoise #MicrophoneComparison #Bioacoustics #AvisoftAudio #TechReview

Just launched: the BioDCASE challenge! Monitor whales, birds and other animals, through their sounds? We're publishing new datasets, and new evaluations, to help you do so! Please join this new challenge, and please spread the word: https://biodcase.github.io/ #bioacoustics #machinelistening #ai4good

New preprint: "InsectSet459: an open dataset of insect sounds for bioacoustic machine learning" https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15074 #bioacoustics #dataset #insects #orthoptera #cicadidae