AI boosts bird sound identification accuracy

In a study conducted at the University of Helsinki, AI was trained to classify bird sounds with increasing accuracy. The ...
Los Angeles Times

Birdwatching includes bird-listening. How to connect with nature by recording birdsong

If you were old enough to buy CDs in the ’90s, you may remember listening stations at superstores that featured music by some of nature’s noisiest creatures: birds. These CDs blended classical music ...
Star Tribune

Bird melodies sound sweet, but there's meaning to the music

Spring weather has finally arrived, ushering in a sensory feast of nature's sights, sounds and scents after the barrenness of winter. We humans feel joyful at the prospect of long days filled with ...
Science Daily

Why do birds make so many different sounds? A study gets at the underlying factors

Researchers conducted a global study of the factors that influence bird sounds, using more than 100,000 audio recordings from around the world. Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a ...
The Conversation

We made an app to identify bird sounds – and learned something surprising about people

Dan Stowell is a co-founder and shareholder of Warblr Ltd. He receives funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for his research on bird sounds. The sound of birds is ...