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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
Pleased to announce the BioDCASE Challenge 2026 - the Bioacoustics Data Challenge! Now with 6 different tasks to choose from, each an open-data computational challenge of its own: https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/ #machinelistening #BioDCASE #bioacoustics #DCASE #sound
A small boost to this little paper as I'm working on the proofs:
Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) males sing using individual isochronous rhythms and maximise rhythmic dissimilarity with neighbours
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Call for abstract submissions!
The Emerging Bioacousticians' Days are returning for their fourth edition in Besançon from 16 to 18 June 2026, and they are actively seeking presenters!
Abstract submissions are open until 3 April 2026 via this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....
... hi Vitor, point taken, and yes, we'd heard of these before :-) So, a slightly provocative post for those in the know :-) Nevertheless, it is a use XC has envisaged for a long time, so nice that it materialises.
.... possibly first instance where xeno-cantified machine learning (BirdNET) has been used to find previously unrecognised sounds in ... Xeno-canto. Very cool.
Fantastic work. See xeno-canto.org/602820 and xeno-canto.org/89097 . Update of XC taxonomy pending...
🪶Two new antbird species have been discovered in the Amazon Basin through #bioacoustics and #morphological characteristics. The description has been published in the #OA #journal Vertebrate Zoology.
Read more about it on our blog 👇
🐒 My first PhD chapter is out! We describe the vocal sequence repertoire of wild sooty mangabeys and show that they use combinatorial rules. Follow-up paper coming soon 👀
@taichimpproject.bsky.social @cogcompneuch.bsky.social @tozbu.bsky.social
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
Tem algumas fases envolvidas em publicar o artigo, mas receber a prova é a melhor delas! Ver o artigo formatadinho é tipo ver ele nascer. Esse aqui foi um dos mais desafiadores que já fiz, do áudio à ecologia ou teoria da comunicação. Muito massa! Logo mais, em uma banca perto de você! #Bioacoustics
A European Robin is sat on a branch.
Part-night lighting fails to restore natural song rhythms in urban European Robins | Environmental Pollution | doi.org/10.1016/j.en... | #ornithology #robins #lightpollution #acoustics 🪶🔊
... xenocantified. Just sharing this again in case you missed the first one :-)
a Canada Jay (a gray and white jay with no crest) perched among bare branches
Latest articles from the WJO: Community-science sourced evidence of vocal mimicry in Perisoreus jays. #ornithology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The site will be down briefly today, around 13:00. Shouldn't last more than half an hour.
Image of the title and abstract of our new paper, with a cartoon Ovenbird superimposed. The title of the paper is: Hushed disputes between noisy neighbours: ovenbirds vary song amplitude during conflicts with territorial rivals.
Our new paper is out today in Animal Behaviour: "Hushed disputes between noisy neighbours: Ovenbirds vary song amplitude during conflicts with territorial rivals." By Connor Acorn, Jenn Foote, & me. @animbehsociety.bsky.social
How loud is an Ovenbird's song? It depends...
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... Fania Dewi Nasihah pushes us past 4000 #frog recordings, with a set including 3 new species for XC from Gunung Pangrano in west Java. Very cool. 792 species now, this is the list of the latest new ones: xeno-canto.org/collection/s... . #bioacoustics
... yes, in scope :-) News in a week or two.
Uu, good news! We need songs annotated at element/syllable level, which is probably not within XC scope? We'll link all annotations back to XC files to ease future automation though!
... nice set of old #frog recordings from Sulawesi and Java coming in. Recorded and uploade by Arjan Boonman, IDs by Helen Kurniati. Quite a few species new for XC, and taking us past 4000 #frog recordings any day now. #bioacoustics. Chek out: xeno-canto.org?gid=4
... not sure what you are planning? XC are opening up for annotations pretty soon. Is that relevant for your effort?
... let's sonify this again: xeno-canto.org/collection/s...
... we're back.
.... looks like we are not reachable. Looking into it ...
Good points there. XC agrees. Fair data and its curation are not free and need funding.
... Xenocantified.
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... microfoon mee?
Vocal convergence during formation of social relationships in vampire bats url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Nueva engrega de los “imperiales nocturnos”, con nuevos datos. sononatura.com/aguilas-impe...
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... automatic recognition is useful when it works. Fieldwork, and a community that shares and learns the sounds got it to where it is now. And it will remain the basis for quite some time. Lot of fun as well :-) Check XC's Slaty Brushfinch recordings from Peru here: xeno-canto.org/species/Atla...