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Professional #bioacoustics in your pocket: The new #BirdNET Live app is revolutionising the monitoring of animal calls. Its AI works without an internet connection and recognises more species than other apps. @kahst.bsky.social TU Chemnitz, @uni-wuerzburg.de, Bavarian Forest National Park
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2026/07/27/identify-birds-offline-using-ai-new-app-records-animal-sounds-directly-on-your-smartphone

New publication: BatBuddy: An open-source tool to detect #bat feeding buzzes with potential for social call detection. #bioacoustics #batbehaviour #deeplearning #foraging
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2026.103922

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐋⚓ Sperm whales near #Dominica shorten their click sequences and shift their vowel-like #sounds when #ships are present, according to researchers from #ProjectCETI and #UCBerkeley.

The team analyzed over 1,000 codas from 15 #whales over four years, finding that rhythm and click timing best predict nearby #vessels. The findings add to efforts to decode whale #language and understand how human noise affects #marine life.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/sperm-whales-change-communication-ships/

#spermwhales #cetaceans #animals #communication #bioacoustics #science #conservation #mammals #animalbehavior #linguistics #research

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐋⚓ Sperm whales near #Dominica shorten their click sequences and shift their vowel-like #sounds when #ships are present, according to researchers from #ProjectCETI and #UCBerkeley.

The team analyzed over 1,000 codas from 15 #whales over four years, finding that rhythm and click timing best predict nearby #vessels. The findings add to efforts to decode whale #language and understand how human noise affects #marine life.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/sperm-whales-change-communication-ships/

#spermwhales #cetaceans #animals #communication #bioacoustics #science #conservation #mammals #animalbehavior #linguistics #research

"Listening to nature Naturalis and LIACS join forces" - A short article about what we're doing with AI for nature https://www.naturalis.nl/en/follow-our-stories/listening-to-nature-naturalis-and-liacs-join-forces #bioacoustics #aifornature #ai4good

"Listening to nature Naturalis and LIACS join forces" - A short article about what we're doing with AI for nature https://www.naturalis.nl/en/follow-our-stories/listening-to-nature-naturalis-and-liacs-join-forces #bioacoustics #aifornature #ai4good

🎧 How can one minute of sound help us understand biodiversity?
In a recent episode of Update Erde by Deutschlandfunk Nova, GRUSS member Frederick Kistner introduces Bio-O-Ton—combining bioacoustics, citizen science, remote sensing and AI for large-scale biodiversity monitoring.
🎙️ Deine Minute Natur - Was es bringt, der Natur zu lauschen
#BioOTon #Biodiversity #Bioacoustics #CitizenScience #RemoteSensing #AI #KIT
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2LG67aW2H2x8MivKKYj0I2?si=f95b3b351bad4bd2

🎧 How can one minute of sound help us understand biodiversity?
In a recent episode of Update Erde by Deutschlandfunk Nova, GRUSS member Frederick Kistner introduces Bio-O-Ton—combining bioacoustics, citizen science, remote sensing and AI for large-scale biodiversity monitoring.
🎙️ Deine Minute Natur - Was es bringt, der Natur zu lauschen
#BioOTon #Biodiversity #Bioacoustics #CitizenScience #RemoteSensing #AI #KIT
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2LG67aW2H2x8MivKKYj0I2?si=f95b3b351bad4bd2

Delighted to officially publish the results of BioDCASE 2026! Six different tasks in animal sound, each with methods proposed by multiple teams. Dive in to the latest state of the art here: https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/ #bioacoustics #BioDCASE #DCASE #machinelistening

Delighted to officially publish the results of BioDCASE 2026! Six different tasks in animal sound, each with methods proposed by multiple teams. Dive in to the latest state of the art here: https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/ #bioacoustics #BioDCASE #DCASE #machinelistening

Und der Parabolspiegel ist mittlerweile auf dem Rad fast immer dabei. Es war zwar recht windig, aber ein paar Aufnahmen von den Bienenfressern sind mir dann doch noch gelungen.

#sound #birdsong #nature #fieldrecording #bioacoustics #BirdsOfMastodon

Und der Parabolspiegel ist mittlerweile auf dem Rad fast immer dabei. Es war zwar recht windig, aber ein paar Aufnahmen von den Bienenfressern sind mir dann doch noch gelungen.

#sound #birdsong #nature #fieldrecording #bioacoustics #BirdsOfMastodon

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐟👂 Researchers at #Florida Atlantic University trained an #AI model to identify what marine #predators eat by analyzing the sounds of #shells being crushed.

The tool, tested on whitespotted eagle #rays, can distinguish between #prey like #clams and #snails based on chewing #audio and processing time. The team plans to expand the model to other shell crushing #predators such as #crabs.

👉 https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/chewing-sounds-can-help-decode-an-animals-diet-using-ai-new-study-finds/

#machinelearning #marinebiology #ocean #bioacoustics #shellfish #conservation #research #science #underwater #technology #tech

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐟👂 Researchers at #Florida Atlantic University trained an #AI model to identify what marine #predators eat by analyzing the sounds of #shells being crushed.

The tool, tested on whitespotted eagle #rays, can distinguish between #prey like #clams and #snails based on chewing #audio and processing time. The team plans to expand the model to other shell crushing #predators such as #crabs.

👉 https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/chewing-sounds-can-help-decode-an-animals-diet-using-ai-new-study-finds/

#machinelearning #marinebiology #ocean #bioacoustics #shellfish #conservation #research #science #underwater #technology #tech

#Crickets and #grasshoppers communicate via #bioacoustics for mate recognition. In turn this can be used for #species #identification e.g. via passive audio monitoring and #machinelearning. Do you have some #mustreads on this topic?

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐋🗣️ Sperm #whales in the #Mediterranean are splitting into two dialect groups: eastern whales clicking faster, western whales clicking slower, according to researchers.

By studying over 5,000 recordings from #Greece and #Spain, scientists discovered distinct regional accents.

👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/whales-appear-to-be-evolving-a-new-dialect-in-the-mediterranean-sea

#spermwhales #animals #communication #culture #cetaceans #bioacoustics #marinebiology #evolution #nature #science #mammals #wildlife

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐋🗣️ Sperm #whales in the #Mediterranean are splitting into two dialect groups: eastern whales clicking faster, western whales clicking slower, according to researchers.

By studying over 5,000 recordings from #Greece and #Spain, scientists discovered distinct regional accents.

👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/whales-appear-to-be-evolving-a-new-dialect-in-the-mediterranean-sea

#spermwhales #animals #communication #culture #cetaceans #bioacoustics #marinebiology #evolution #nature #science #mammals #wildlife

Got to spend the last 24 hours with my former PhD advisor, Dr. Joy O'Keefe, and her husband while they were in New York.
I took us out to a little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) colony at our other field campus across the lake and we recorded some bats at sunset. Then navigated back across the lake in the fog watching lots of bats forage across the water.
#bats #bioacoustics

Got to spend the last 24 hours with my former PhD advisor, Dr. Joy O'Keefe, and her husband while they were in New York.
I took us out to a little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) colony at our other field campus across the lake and we recorded some bats at sunset. Then navigated back across the lake in the fog watching lots of bats forage across the water.
#bats #bioacoustics

Across an extraordinary variety of species, animals vocalize at a strikingly consistent rate of approximately two to three acoustic events per second (around 2.8 Hz), constrained by the brain's inherent capacity to process auditory stimuli.
#Neurobiology #EvolutionaryBiology #Bioacoustics #Zoology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/bio06142603.html

Across an extraordinary variety of species, animals vocalize at a strikingly consistent rate of approximately two to three acoustic events per second (around 2.8 Hz), constrained by the brain's inherent capacity to process auditory stimuli.
#Neurobiology #EvolutionaryBiology #Bioacoustics #Zoology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/bio06142603.html

BioDCASE challenge - the evaluation datasets are now available! https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/ Looking forward to seeing what new researchers will develop with this animal sound data. #bioacoustics #datachallenge #ai4good

BioDCASE challenge - the evaluation datasets are now available! https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/ Looking forward to seeing what new researchers will develop with this animal sound data. #bioacoustics #datachallenge #ai4good

An interview with me and Lia Gilmour (of the Bat Conservation Trust) about #BioacousticAI: "AI listens in to help protect wildlife" https://projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-magazine/ai-listens-help-protect-wildlife #bioacoustics @bioacousticai @EUCommission

An interview with me and Lia Gilmour (of the Bat Conservation Trust) about #BioacousticAI: "AI listens in to help protect wildlife" https://projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-magazine/ai-listens-help-protect-wildlife #bioacoustics @bioacousticai @EUCommission

New paper: "Data-driven Sampling Strategies for Fine-Tuning Bird Detection Models" https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043947 - from the TABMON project. #bioacoustics

New paper: "Data-driven Sampling Strategies for Fine-Tuning Bird Detection Models" https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043947 - from the TABMON project. #bioacoustics

Save the date! BioDCASE 2026 will be ONLINE on Friday 23rd October. Join for the latest in solving #bioacoustics challenges. https://biodcase.github.io/workshop2026/ #BioDCASE #DCASE

Save the date! BioDCASE 2026 will be ONLINE on Friday 23rd October. Join for the latest in solving #bioacoustics challenges. https://biodcase.github.io/workshop2026/ #BioDCASE #DCASE

Here's a nice new video lecture from our doctoral candidate Vincent Kather: "Deep learning in bioacoustics: Structuring large amounts of biocoustic recordings in search of unknown species" https://ressources.ircam.fr/fr/media/0b4b4e7baaf024922578 #bioacoustics (our thanks to IRCAM for inviting & recording)

Here's a nice new video lecture from our doctoral candidate Vincent Kather: "Deep learning in bioacoustics: Structuring large amounts of biocoustic recordings in search of unknown species" https://ressources.ircam.fr/fr/media/0b4b4e7baaf024922578 #bioacoustics (our thanks to IRCAM for inviting & recording)

We lie in the grass, decoding arboreal wavelengths. The canopy paints a luminous, fractal tomorrow. 🌳✨ #Bioacoustics #Symbiosis

Bioacoustics seminar 16th June https://www.ml4biodiversity.org/bioacoustics-seminar/ (Maastricht/online) Interesting list of topics, from Dutch bioacoustics researchers. #bioacoustics

Bioacoustics seminar 16th June https://www.ml4biodiversity.org/bioacoustics-seminar/ (Maastricht/online) Interesting list of topics, from Dutch bioacoustics researchers. #bioacoustics

This is a big deal in bioacoustics: Raven Pro - popular for over 20 years - is being retired in favour of Raven Workbench. Congratulations to the #Raven team at #Cornell for making this big step! https://www.ravensoundsoftware.com/knowledge-base/important-announcement-were-retiring-raven-pro-and-transitioning-to-raven-workbench/ #bioacoustics

This is a big deal in bioacoustics: Raven Pro - popular for over 20 years - is being retired in favour of Raven Workbench. Congratulations to the #Raven team at #Cornell for making this big step! https://www.ravensoundsoftware.com/knowledge-base/important-announcement-were-retiring-raven-pro-and-transitioning-to-raven-workbench/ #bioacoustics

Finally finished some light engineering for a bioacoustic monitoring job this summer, within the context of an agro-ecology grant. Test rig is currently running in the garden with the others in storage. Still missing some odd bits (U-bolts seem hard to source).

#ornithology #bioacoustics #offgrid #remotesensing #engineering

Finally finished some light engineering for a bioacoustic monitoring job this summer, within the context of an agro-ecology grant. Test rig is currently running in the garden with the others in storage. Still missing some odd bits (U-bolts seem hard to source).

#ornithology #bioacoustics #offgrid #remotesensing #engineering

And second the Tree Pipit song.

Both recordings where made with a Telinga Modular but this time I switched to the FEL Clippy mics. So far I like them but haven't had much opportunity yesterday to record. Will have to follow up on this. Field recording intensifies 🎤

#fieldrecording #sound #nature #bioacoustics #birdsong #BirdsOfMastodon

And second the Tree Pipit song.

Both recordings where made with a Telinga Modular but this time I switched to the FEL Clippy mics. So far I like them but haven't had much opportunity yesterday to record. Will have to follow up on this. Field recording intensifies 🎤

#fieldrecording #sound #nature #bioacoustics #birdsong #BirdsOfMastodon

Here are the two recordings I made yesterday in the snow. First up the Greater Whitethroat. Was my first this year.

#fieldrecording #sound #nature #bioacoustics #birdsong #BirdsOfMastodon

Here are the two recordings I made yesterday in the snow. First up the Greater Whitethroat. Was my first this year.

#fieldrecording #sound #nature #bioacoustics #birdsong #BirdsOfMastodon

CUREE is an autonomous underwater vehicle that integrates real-time audio and high-resolution visual data to identify, quantify, and map fine-scale biodiversity hotspots within coral reef ecosystems.
#Robotics #MarineEcology #MarineBiology #Bioacoustics #Oceanography #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/tech05132601.html

CUREE is an autonomous underwater vehicle that integrates real-time audio and high-resolution visual data to identify, quantify, and map fine-scale biodiversity hotspots within coral reef ecosystems.
#Robotics #MarineEcology #MarineBiology #Bioacoustics #Oceanography #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/tech05132601.html

University of Washington researchers have deciphered the specific vocalizations of endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales to map the behavioral context of their calls and determine how human-generated marine noise disrupts their communication network.
#MarineBiology #Bioacoustics #BehavioralEcology #ConservationBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/mb05132601.html

University of Washington researchers have deciphered the specific vocalizations of endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales to map the behavioral context of their calls and determine how human-generated marine noise disrupts their communication network.
#MarineBiology #Bioacoustics #BehavioralEcology #ConservationBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/mb05132601.html

So here is the recording of the Boreal Owl from a few weeks back, when on a night monitoring trip.

#fieldrecording #sound #nature #bioacoustics #birdsong #BirdsOfMastodon

So here is the recording of the Boreal Owl from a few weeks back, when on a night monitoring trip.

#fieldrecording #sound #nature #bioacoustics #birdsong #BirdsOfMastodon

And here is the male Black Grouse song/ courtship call.
Love the contrast between the soft roling sounds and the harsh hissing.

#fieldrecording #nature #sound #BioAcoustics #BirdSong #BirdsOfMastodon

And here is the male Black Grouse song/ courtship call.
Love the contrast between the soft roling sounds and the harsh hissing.

#fieldrecording #nature #sound #BioAcoustics #BirdSong #BirdsOfMastodon

So here is the recording from yesterday of the female Black Grouse singing (or is courtship call more appropriate?)
Wasn't aware of this behaviour/ sound before. Realy love it.
Only editing applied is a shelving EQ below 130 Hz.

#fieldrecording #nature #sound #BioAcoustics #BirdSong #BirdsOfMastodon

So here is the recording from yesterday of the female Black Grouse singing (or is courtship call more appropriate?)
Wasn't aware of this behaviour/ sound before. Realy love it.
Only editing applied is a shelving EQ below 130 Hz.

#fieldrecording #nature #sound #BioAcoustics #BirdSong #BirdsOfMastodon

Been looking and listening for the Black Grouse again. This time with success.
Saw and recorded both male and female.
Due to a lack of a proper camera here is a shot taken through my bins of the female bird perched in a tree.
Also a lovely work desk. Next home office setup 😉

#birding #birdcount #birdsofmastodon #fieldrecording #nature #BioAcoustics #fieldwork

Been looking and listening for the Black Grouse again. This time with success.
Saw and recorded both male and female.
Due to a lack of a proper camera here is a shot taken through my bins of the female bird perched in a tree.
Also a lovely work desk. Next home office setup 😉

#birding #birdcount #birdsofmastodon #fieldrecording #nature #BioAcoustics #fieldwork

The 3rd Singwarte Field Meeting will take place from 6–8 November 2026.

We will gather near the Plothener Pond area for three days of exchange, recording, and shared learning in the field.

If you would like to join us, please send a short message about yourself and your motivation to participate to: [email protected]

The details will follow in May/ June.
You can also join our newsletter:
https://www.singwarte.info/?page_id=3628

#fieldrecording #sound #workshop #bioacoustics

The 3rd Singwarte Field Meeting will take place from 6–8 November 2026.

We will gather near the Plothener Pond area for three days of exchange, recording, and shared learning in the field.

If you would like to join us, please send a short message about yourself and your motivation to participate to: [email protected]

The details will follow in May/ June.
You can also join our newsletter:
https://www.singwarte.info/?page_id=3628

#fieldrecording #sound #workshop #bioacoustics

This was a fabulous Bioacoustic AI week (@bioacousticai) here in the Netherlands! We welcomed our Doctoral Candidates and researchers to meet Dutch researchers for discussions, research planning, plus a desert hike, and a bat walk! #bioacoustics

This was a fabulous Bioacoustic AI week (@bioacousticai) here in the Netherlands! We welcomed our Doctoral Candidates and researchers to meet Dutch researchers for discussions, research planning, plus a desert hike, and a bat walk! #bioacoustics

Plant seeds and seedlings possess the biological ability to detect and respond to natural sound vibrations in their environment, utilizing these acoustic cues to break dormancy and accelerate growth.
#Botany #Bioacoustics #PlantPhysiology #MechanicalEngineering #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/bot04222601.html

Costa Rica: The Sound of a Successful Rainforest Recovery Program

🪙 The first nation-wide program that paid landowners to leave pastureland untouched has been successful.

🎤 Drawing on the burgeoning field of #BioAcoustics researchers revealed how the din of life in forests regrowing under the program had a lot in common with intact forests in the area.

💬 “Empowering local people and sharing nature’s bounty among all, instead of locking it away for the privileged few, is a radically effective ecological solution.”
- Giacomo Delgado (principal scientist)

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/02/can-you-hear-it-thats-the-sound-of-a-successful-rainforest-recovery-program/

#SolarPunkSunday #WildlifeConservation #Rewilding #Conservation #Biodiversity #Environment #Wildlife #Reforestation