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discussion / Acoustics  / 8 January 2025

Looking for bird and bat audio datasets and related research for biodiversity AI project

Lorenzo Girotti

Lorenzo Girotti

Graduated with a Bachelor's in Computer Science, now specializing in Artificial Intelligence as an MSc student.

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Hi everyone,

I'm working on a project funded by the PNRR and selected by NBFC, focused on tracking biodiversity in Italy, with potential expansion to other countries. The goal is to develop an AI system capable of recognizing different bird and bat species through their sounds.

I'm currently looking for datasets, preferably open-source, that include bird and bat audio recordings from Europe and nearby regions (e.g., North Africa). If you know of any resources, related-work or datasets that might be useful, I’d greatly appreciate your input.

Feel free to reply to this post or reach out to me directly at lollogiro2@gmail.com.

Thank you in advance for your help!



Lia Gilmour
@lvgliarose  | she/her
Bat Conservation Trust
Research Manager at Bat Conservation Trust

8 January 2025 11:33am

Hi Lorenzo. I presume you have found Xeno-Canto? At BCT we are helping to get more bat sounds on there (starting with the UK). Not sure what the datasets are like for Italy. At BCT we collab with UCL and Edinburgh uni and use BatDetect2 for bat detection. You may have already found these, but just in case links attached! Good luck with your work. 

 

Kevin FA Darras
@kdarras

10 January 2025 12:19pm

Read "WABAD: A World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset for Passive Acoustic Monitoring | Research Square" on

WABAD: A World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset for Passive Acoustic Monitoring | Research Square

Under the current global biodiversity crisis, there is a need for automated and non-invasive monitoring techniques that are able to gather large amounts of information cost-effectively at large scales. One such technique is passive acoustic monitoring, which is commonly coupled with automatic ...