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What are the ethics of sound recording?

There was a discussion about the use of playbacks specifically here as well: Is it cruel/unethical to playback bird sounds to birds in my yard?
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What are the tools available for freshwater acoustic monitoring?

The Hydromoth is becoming popular! From the makers of the terrestrial Audiomoth (Open Acoustic Devices). Actually, there was a group buy just announced so you can grab some now if interested. It's thr …
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Replacements for Sound Analysis Pro 2011 given Compatibility Issues

I would highly recommend Tessa Rhinehart's amazing list of bioacoustics software. The list is grouped by functionality too, so you can see what options would be best for your specific use cases. https …
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How, if at all, are you compressing your recordings?

There is a similar post about compression here with some helpful answers on different options & explanations of them. Does the file format of audio recordings (e.g. .wav vs .mp3) matter if you are per …
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What are the main differences in recording solid-borne, water-borne and air-borne sounds?

I'm noticing acoustic monitoring of soils is an increasingly hot topic within the passive acoustics community (rather than the physics side that you mention). Some recent papers on that here - Lacoste …
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Differences in length of time Audiomoths record with same batteries/SD cards/settings?

This even though I used the same new batteries (Energizer Ultimate Lithium AAs), SD cards (SanDisk ExtremePro 128GB), and settings (48kHz sample rate, medium gain, bandpass filter 1-20kHz, recording 8am … Has anyone else run into this level of recording time variation across recorders? Anyone have any ideas about why this variation exists? Thanks! …
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Pros and cons directional mic vs parabola

In terms of recording distance, this really depends on a lot of other factors as well e.g., vegetation density/habitat type, climactic conditions (wind, rain, temperature), how loud the animal is calling … The directional mic I use for lemur vocals did a good job recording calls considering that the lemur species I study are high-canopy specialists and we're in a rainforest, so lots of dense vegetation and …
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Is there a shared open access Bioacoustics platform?

Macaulay library would probably be your best best. Though you have to submit a request to actually download the file. You can view the spectrogram/listen to the call through the platform though. I've …
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