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Questions related to collecting, analyzing & interpreting bird vocalizations; best practices in ornithology for bioacoustics (hardware, software & otherwise)
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Differences/similarities between BirdNET and Merlin
I am relatively new to the bird bioacoustics world (I'm a primatologist by trade but starting a side project with bird vocals from passive acoustic data I've got from Madagascar) and was a bit confused … They're both out of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (Lab of O) and both doing automated detections of bird calls, but what have peoples' experiences been using one or the other? …
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Pros and cons directional mic vs parabola
I use directional ("shot gun", though I hate that term) mic's for lemur vocalizations (+ a windscreen over it). The Sennheiser ME67, which has pretty much become the gold standard in primatology at le …
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Is it cruel/unethical to playback bird sounds to birds in my yard?
I'm not a bird acoustician specifically (I do primates), but in general we try to avoid playbacks as much as necessary just so we're not messing up their behavior or stressing them out. … There have been some studies looking at such effects (but not many) e.g., -
An experience to remember: lifelong effects of playback-based trapping on behaviour of a migratory passerine bird. …
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Best methods to categorize calls
Highlighting a few below, but would also definitely recommend checking out Tessa Rhinehart's wonderful list of bioacoustics software for a more comprehensive list - https://github.com/rhine3/bioacoust …
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Data augmentation strategies for bioacoustics machine learning
I use OpenSoundscape (Python package developed by Tessa Rhinehart & the Kitzes lab at Univ of Pittsburgh), which has a lot of augmentation/pre-processing tools. Their documentation & tutorials are als …