[HTML][HTML] Autonomous recording units in avian ecological research: current use and future applications

J Shonfield, E Bayne - Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2017 - epe.bac-lac.gc.ca
Acoustic surveys are a widely used sampling tool in ecological research and monitoring.
They are used to monitor populations and ecosystems and to study various aspects of …

Automated birdsong recognition in complex acoustic environments: a review

N Priyadarshani, S Marsland… - Journal of Avian Biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Conservationists are increasingly using autonomous acoustic recorders to determine the
presence/absence and the abundance of bird species. Unlike humans, these recorders can …

Methods for wildlife monitoring in tropical forests: Comparing human observations, camera traps, and passive acoustic sensors

JA Zwerts, PJ Stephenson, F Maisels… - … Science and Practice, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wildlife monitoring is essential for conservation science and data‐driven decision‐making.
Tropical forests pose a particularly challenging environment for monitoring wildlife due to the …

Comparing recurrent convolutional neural networks for large scale bird species classification

G Gupta, M Kshirsagar, M Zhong, S Gholami… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
We present a deep learning approach towards the large-scale prediction and analysis of
bird acoustics from 100 different bird species. We use spectrograms constructed on bird …

Autonomous sound recording outperforms human observation for sampling birds: a systematic map and user guide

K Darras, P Batáry, BJ Furnas, I Grass… - Ecological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous sound recording techniques have gained considerable traction in the last
decade, but the question remains whether they can replace human observation surveys to …

Comparing the sampling performance of sound recorders versus point counts in bird surveys: A meta‐analysis

K Darras, P Batáry, B Furnas… - Journal of applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous sound recording is a promising sampling method for birds and other vocalizing
terrestrial wildlife. However, while there are clear advantages of passive acoustic monitoring …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of recording devices and environmental noise on acoustic index scores: Implications for bird sound-based assessments

C Zhang, Y Zhang, X Zheng, X Gao, Z Hao - Ecological Indicators, 2024 - Elsevier
Passive acoustic monitoring serves as a minimally invasive and effective method for
biodiversity assessment, particularly in bird monitoring through the application of acoustic …

A roadmap to identifying and filling shortfalls in Neotropical ornithology

AC Lees, KV Rosenberg, V Ruiz-Gutierrez… - The Auk, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Securing the long-term resilience of the world's most speciose avifauna, that of the
Neotropics, requires spatially and temporally explicit data to inform decisions. We examine …

Robust, real‐time and autonomous monitoring of ecosystems with an open, low‐cost, networked device

SS Sethi, RM Ewers, NS Jones… - Methods in Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Automated methods of monitoring ecosystems provide a cost‐effective way to track changes
in natural system's dynamics across temporal and spatial scales. However, methods of …

Estimating bird detection distances in sound recordings for standardizing detection ranges and distance sampling

K Darras, B Furnas, I Fitriawan… - Methods in Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous sound recorders are increasingly used to survey birds, and other wildlife taxa.
Species richness estimates from sound recordings are usually compared with estimates …