Resources for the Animal Bioacoustics Community
Resources
Online Communities
Online communities related to TCAB:
- Bioacoustics Stack Exchange
- BiocoustiTalks seminars hosted by K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics
- Slack
- Acoustic analyses in ecology (hardware focus) – invite link
- Conservation Bioacoustics – invite link
- Sonic Connexions TCAB virtual meet-ups
- Sign up for the listserv here or email sonicconnexions@gmail.com
- Email listservs
- BIOACOUSTICS-L
- MARMAM – marine mammal research and conservation.
- AUDITORY – hearing and the auditory systems
- BIOACOUSTIC-MONITORING – communications of an International Expert Group on Bioacoustic Monitoring.
Bioacoustics Software
The Bioacoustics Software Database is a comprehensive/interactive website and spreadsheet of all current software used in bioacoustics: https://rhine3.github.io/bioacoustics-software/
Some links to some commonly used and free tools:
- Audacity – a free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds
- Pamguard – developed by Doug Gillespie
- Raven – developed by the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservaiton Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Soundruler – an extensive analysis, graphing, and teaching tool for bioacoustics
- Wavesurfer – an Open Source tool for sound visualization and manipulation
Virtual Lab Tours
The Fall 2024 Virtual 187th ASA Meeting featured a session of Animal Bioacoustics Virtual Lab Tours
- Curtain University – Center for Marine Science and Technology (CMST) and Center of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (COEST): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dNpmXnIM28
Would you like to share a virtual tour of your lab? Reach out to the TCAB Chair and we can add your lab!
Journals
Some of the peer-reviewed journals that publish papers related to animal bioacoustics and bioacoustic technologies and methodologies:
- Animal Behaviour
- Applied Acoustics
- Behaviour
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- Bioacoustics
- Biological Conservation
- Canadian Journal of Zoology
- Canadian Acoustics
- Ecological Informatics
- Ethology
- Ethology, Ecology, & Evolution
- Frontiers in Marine Science
- Frontiers in Remote Sensing
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
- Journal of Applied Ecology
- Journal of Cetacean Research and Management
- Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Marine Mammal Science
- Nature
- PeerJ Computer Science
- PLOS Computational Biology
- Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
- Royal Society Open Science
- Science
- Sensors
Sound Libraries
There are many freely available sound libraries now available (and the list keeps growing!). If you are looking for a particular library you may also find help on the Bioacoustics Stack Exchange.
- The Macaulay Library – an online animal sound and video catalog
- The Discovery of Sound in the Sea (DOSITS) project of the University of Rhode Island
- FishBase’s collection of example fish sounds; click on the “Fish sounds” button
- Animal Sound Archive of the Humboldt-University, Berlin (Germany)
- National Museum of Natural History of Madrid’s Animal Sound Library, or Fonoteca Zoologica (Spain)
- Ohio State University Borror Laboratory for Bioacoustics collection
- University of Washington’s Pacific Northwest Bat Call Library
- Xeno-Canto, a collection of user-contributed bird songs
- Salish Sea hydrophone network, live audio streams and recordings from killer whale habitats in the USA and Canada
- Beam Reach, Marine Science and Sustainability School
- Voices in the Sea, Scripps Whale Acoustics Lab
- Songs of European Singing Cicadas – an online cicada sound library
- Bug Bytes – USDA website containing links to insect sound files
- Sample Songs of Crickets and Katydids, hosted by the University of Florida Entomology and Nematology Dept
- Dave Gammond’s NatureSounds – audio files for amateur bird enthusiasts and educators
- SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Sounds Library
- Ecosounds – a repository of environmental audio recordings
- Frog voices of Borneo
- Florida Museum’s Bird Sounds Database
- Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database
- Frog Blog, an online to portal to learn a bit more about some frogs and their calls
- Birdvox, machine listening for Bird Migration Monitoring, a collaboration between the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and NYU’s Music and Audio Research Laboratory
- Bioacoustica, online repository and analysis platform for scientific recordings of wildlife sounds
- Animal sounds of freesound.org
- La sonothèque du Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle
- CIBRA of the University of Pavia
- Marine Mammal Bioacoustics Library, Centre for Marine Science and Technology (CMST), Curtin University
- CEIBA, Colección de sonidos ambientales del Instituto Alexander von Humboldt
- Wildlife Sound Archive of the Australian National Wildlife Collection
- Orcalab, orca sounds recorded in the “Inside Passage” of northern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada
Recording equipment
- A broad overview of audio gear for wildlife recording from the Macaulay Library at Cornell University, USA.
- Another broad overview from the Centre for Bioacoustics at the University of Pavia, Italy.
In case of a detailed question please post a message on the Bioacoustics-L email list…
Other related organizations
- ASA committee on standards for animal bioacoustics
- The Acoustic Ecology Institute provides access to news, academic research, public policy advocates, and articles and essays about sound and listening
- The Nature Sounds Society for the preservation, appreciation and creative use of natural sounds
If you’ve got a link or resource that you’d like added here, please reach out via the Contact Form and we will work with you to get it added!