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WILDLABS Acoustics Group Meetup | WILDLABS Make new connections and discuss hot topics in conservation bioacoustics!

Want to meet other #bioacoustics researchers, discuss stumbling blocks in your workflow, and envision what's next for conservation bioacoustics?

Join us on December 10 at 11 AM ET for a WILDLABS Acoustics group virtual meetup! @wildlabs.bsky.social

Info & registration: wildlabs.net/event/wildla...

Humans outperform Merlin Sound ID in field-based point-count surveys - American Ornithological Society Merlin’s sound classifier feature has revolutionized interaction with the avian world since its release in 2021. It works by learning the unique features of a species’ vocalization, and then recognizi...

The latest on Wing Beat: "Humans outperform Merlin Sound ID in field-based point-count surveys" by Brooke Goodman
americanornithology.org/humans-outpe...
Related paper: doi.org/10.1093/orni...
#ornithology #pointcountsurvey #soundID #birdsong

New paper by our own Brooke Goodman comparing humans to Merlin Sound ID! Check it out 🔭

Actually good review of #AI in #bioacoustics, from @kitzeslab.bsky.social et al. in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social:

🗣️ "...a deep understanding of research context is required to develop and apply appropriate AI models"

Heck yeah brother

Incl. case study of how expt design impacts AI

#prattle 💬

To any bioacoustics folks joining us at #AOS2025, we are hosting an informal bioacoustics meetup at Trust Cocktail Bar Thursday at 5:30pm! Join us!! 🐦 🔊

HEY!!!!

I’m going to be at AOS in St. Louis presenting my first first-author publication, comparing Merlin Sound ID to point counters in field surveys :) you should come see my talk in Methods & Models 3 on Thursday @ 10:30!

Integrating AI models into ecological research workflows: The case of terrestrial bioacoustics Data collected by autonomous sensors, including camera traps and acoustic recorders, have enormous potential to generate new scientific insights in ecology and related fields. Modern machine learn...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨

From field recordings to ecological insights 🎙️🌳 Our new review in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social explores integrating #AI into #bioacoustics workflows to improve biodiversity monitoring and ecological inference

Check it out!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A group of about a dozen people on a gravel trail look in the direction that their leader is pointing

Happy World Migratory Bird Day! We celebrated by hosting a bird and nature walk at a local park.

Many migratory bird species are imperiled - here are 10 ways you can help. www.birds.cornell.edu/home/get-inv...

Workshops & Training Opportunities - AOS 2025 Annual Meeting The workshops and training sessions at AOS 2025 offer opportunities both for hands-on learning exercises, where participants engage in a mix of lectures and activities, and for panel discussions on a ...

Bird #bioacoustics folks: @kitzeslab.bsky.social is hosting a hands-on "Advanced topics in bioacoustic monitoring" workshop at AOS 2025!

We'll make custom sound ID models, estimate birds' positions using acoustic localization, and discuss how to use sound ID results to make ecological insights.

Excited to share the release of our very own Chapin's latest paper: "Uncovering Breeding Habitat Use of an Uncommon Songbird in Pennsylvania Using Large-Scale Acoustic Data" 🐦📊. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#CanadaWarbler #PAM

For other ideas, if you click the "Data exploration," "Organization," or "Annotation" checkboxes on this site, you'll see which softwares have those features - rhine3.github.io/bioacoustics...

bioacoustics-cookbook/tdl-notebook at main · kitzeslab/bioacoustics-cookbook Jupyter Notebooks for interactive review and annotation of audio files - kitzeslab/bioacoustics-cookbook

To review machine learning predictions, we use a Jupyter Notebook to review files from each site in order from highest- to lowest-scoring: github.com/kitzeslab/bi...

We do this for each day of recording in order to create detection histories for occupancy modeling.

Hi everyone!

My name is Pat and I'm a PhD student in the @kitzeslab.bsky.social at the University of Pittsburgh. My research focuses on using #AudioMoths to monitor birds in restored forests across Pennsylvania. I also use machine learning classifiers to detect birdsong within my recordings.

Bioacoustics Resource Page Bioacoustics Resources A list curated by the Kitzes Lab hint: bookmark this page :) Educational Materials Workshops by the Kitzes Lab Lecture series from Computer Vision for Ecology workshop Class...

If you're looking for bioacoustics tips and help, check out the #Bioacoustics Resource Page (run by Sam Lapp and the Kitzes Lab) - bit.ly/bioacoustics-resource-page

It has links to tons of tutorials, datasets, software, forums, #AudioMoth info, and more

Searching for #bioacoustics tools to classify species, organize data, triangulate sounds, ...? 🦉🐋🦇🦗

Check out the (newly updated) Bioacoustics Software Database! rhine3.github.io/bioacoustics...

La guía practica para #AudioMoths ahora está en español! #bioacoustics #bioacustica github.com/rhine3/audio...