Hi Cortney,

I recommend exploring the tools developed by Kitzes Lab, such as OpenSoundscape, which can be used for the automatic detection of anurans. Here's a reference paper that might be useful. You might also consider reaching out directly to Justin Kitzes @jkitzes  for more specialized advice.
Also here is a another paper that use BirdNet to automatically detect the bullfrog presence.
Best of luck with your analyses!

Hi Mike,

You ask a great question and hopefully an expert on thrush vocalisations will be able to answer you more precisely than I can. However, what I can tell you is that many species of song birds are constantly evolving their calls for a whole range of reasons and while there are innate call characteristics for most species, there is usually a learnt component as well which can be mimicry or simply learning to sing from the available song around them. In Australia (and I believe elsewhere) we have some examples of threatened species with drastically reduced populations that have started to forget their own song because they simply do not have enough adult birds around them from whom to learn the song. They pick up the song of other abundant species which becomes problematic when it comes time for them to breed.

In many urbanised parts of the world, birds have changed their call to find an acoustic window not occupied by anthropogenic noise

So the questions I would start with are:
Do your British blackbirds have a shortage of example calls from their own species which might lead to them changing their call?
Are your blackbirds migrating and breeding  somewhere there were a shortage of teachers?
Is there that much Wolf Whistling still going on in Britain?

If blackbirds are doing as well in Britain as they are in their feral range, then I think a lack of available call teachers is unlikely. Other possibilities are that the individual has learnt a modified call because of a change in its acoustic environment, or it has emigrated (blown in) from somewhere that blackbirds have a different call dialect. Perhaps you could scour an online call library like Xeno-Canto to see if you can find a match for your local blackbird.

Thanks for sharing this @nkundiushuti ! I think this post would be better suited as an event, that way it will show up on the WILDLABS event calendar page. Let me know if you have any questions on how to make an event post! You just click the +Post button in the top right corner, then click "event."

If you search Digikey for a 'strain relief' you should be able to find a rubber grommet that will hold that mic without any additional machining. A blob of silicone will adhesive and  waterproof, I always like stuff to do at least two things. It's also vibration reducing on the mic. You may want to either 'shotgun' mic by putting it at the end of a tube, that will block a lot of ambient also. Unless it whistles like a bottle in the wind, that might be a problem later lol. Or use a dish as a focus. 

Hi Cortney! 

I'm Carly, the Science Outreach Lead at Arbimon :) 

I wanted to just point out that we have support docs and help pages at help.arbimon.org and also a link to contact us directly for help! 

Regarding the error you're getting with the upload, it's probably easiest to switch over to email so I can get more information on the project and look into it on the backend. I would also recommend using the Uploader App rather than the web uploader, if you're not already. 

But your idea is correct, we have many users who import renamed Xeno-Canto files to Arbimon to use as templates! 

What's your email? We can continue the convo to get you set up!