Huge news for bioacousticians: frog/toad recordings can now be shared on xeno-canto!

As more recordings become catalogued in a central database, #bioacoustic studies (e.g. by RIBBiTR BII) will be better able to detect anurans and study their responses to threats like chytrid.

Juan Carlos Vélez Uribe Instituto Humboldt Maria Angela Echeverry-Galvis david 🥚campo Si, no es la mejor grabación 🤷🏽‍♂️

Hay un llamado a contribuir desde Colombia con las buenas grabaciones que tengas. Estos depósitos de audio son súper valiosos y puedes poner duplicados en la colección del Instituto Humboldt, Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab y xeno-canto 😁

ebird.org/colombia/news/…

Short video on our recent discovery: Vocal learning complexity is linked with problem-solving skills in birds.
Thanks Science Magazine for the video and co-authors Mélanie Couture and Erich Jarvis. Complete article here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

.... excellent.

How do birds learn their distinctive songs? A new review by Vallentin Lab gives a comprehensive overview of the different sensory and neural mechanisms that influence song learning and vocal communication in a wide range of songbirds: doi.org/10.1016/j.conb…

Art by julia kuhl at somedonkey.bsky.social

... we just *have* to sonify that: xeno-canto.org/species/Hydrob…

.... cool. Check out the paper and the nice introductory thread.

... cool. Let's sonify that: xeno-canto.org/explore?order=…

Sound recording recently arrived warblers on the Suffolk coast

❗️ Applications for Biocoustic Analysis in R are now open!

If you are interested in the field of nature's acoustics, this course is for you! Participants will learn to analyze acoustic signals from a scientific perspective.

📆Apply by April 18!👇

bit.ly/2TKppQQ

Our #phylogenomics study on the evolutionary relationships of birds 🦉🦃🦆🦜based on whole genome analysis of 363 species is now available as a preview article in nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

🔥 We've just dropped a fresh update for scikit-maad at pypi.org/project/scikit…!

🚀 Version 1.4.1 is here with new features, bug fixes, and improved documentation! 📦 Check out what's new and upgrade now!
github.com/scikit-maad/sc…

PhD for hire! ☀️🎙️🎶🐦
'Machine learning on a solar-powered environmental sensor'
with applications to #audio #AI

at LS2N CNRS Sciences informatiques (Nantes 🦀)
dir. Hladik, Faucou, & me

3 years
funding ANR
start date negotiable

Apply before Apr 26
audio.ls2n.fr/2024/03/27/phd…

“The Voices of Nature. How and Why Animals Communicate', is as inventive as it is trailblazing...” commented PROSE Chief Judge Nigel Fletcher-Jones, PhD. “...an invaluable tool for scholars and readers of all kinds.”
publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

#Postdoc #job with us! Postdoctoral researcher (postdoc) in AI for acoustic biodiversity monitoring tiu.nu/22215 An EU-funded position using AI to monitor birds. (Please share!) #bioacoustics

We are accepting nominations for Plenary Speakers for the 4th African Bioacoustics Conference happening from the 1st to the 6th of September this year. Speakers can be at any career stage. Self-nominations are permitted.
Submit your nominations to [email protected].

Great enthusiasm on the new frogs branch on XC. The number of species has doubled in a week. Nearly 40 recordists have joined with first recordings, from SE Asia, Australia, Europe, some from the Americas and Africa. Image of glass frog by Rinus Hoogmoed. xeno-canto.org/?gid=4

... nice thread ...!

.... good read for a rainy day: a thorough looking investigation into the rain call of Chaffinches: link.springer.com/article/10.100…. & nicely Xeno-cantified at that :-)