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Compiled by Carly Batist
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**If you know of another resource/site, please email me so I can add it! (carly.h.batist@gmail.com)
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Acoustic Reference Libraries/Databases**last updated Jan. 2024**last updated Jan. 2024
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AmphibiaWebFrogsGlobalhttps://amphibiaweb.org/UC Berkeley
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Animal Sound Archive?Globalhttps://www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/science/animal-sound-archiveMuseum fur Naturkund Berlin
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AnuraSetFrogsBrazilhttps://soundclim.github.io/anuraweb/Humboldt Institute, SoundClim42
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Avisoft European Bat Call libraryBatsEuropehttp://www.batcalls.com/Avisoft
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AVoCetBirdsGlobalhttps://avocet.integrativebiology.natsci.msu.edu/Michigan State University5,000+4,700
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Bat Acoustic Monitoring PortalBatsGlobalhttps://batamp.databasin.org/Conservation Biology Institute
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BioAcousticaAnyGlobalhttps://bio.acousti.ca/?
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Bioacoustics datasets repositoryMultipleGlobalhttps://bioacousticsdatasets.weebly.com/index.html#repositoriesJustin Salamon
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Bird Sounds DatabaseBirdsGlobalhttps://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/bird-sounds/Florida Museum27,5003,000
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Bird Sounds GlobalBirdshttps://bsg.laji.fi/LIFEPLAN (EU-funded project)
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Borror Bioacoustics LabMultipleGlobalhttps://mbd.osu.edu/collections/borror-laboratory-bioacousticsOhio State University
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British Library Sound ArchiveAnyGlobalhttps://sounds.bl.uk/categories/nature-and-environmentBritish Library57,813
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Bug BytesInsectsGlobalhttps://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/3559/soundlibrary.htmlRichard Mankin7070
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Center for Global Soundscapes (??)https://centerforglobalsoundscapes.org/Pijanowski Lab, Purdue Univ
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ChiroVoxBatsGlobalhttps://www.chirovox.org/Hungarian Natural History Museum, SEABCRU, Texas Tech Univ.4,077242
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Citibats CambodiaBatsCambodiahttps://www.inaturalist.org/projects/citibats-cambodia Cambodia Urban Bat Project
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Colección de Sonidos AmbientalesMultipleGlobalhttps://colecciones.humboldt.org.co/sonidos/Instituto Humboldt>25,000>1300
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EcosoundsAnyGlobalhttps://www.ecosounds.org/libraryQUT Ecoacoustics group1,400
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Ecosounds-Webmultiple collectionsGlobalhttps://ecosound-web.de/ecosound_web/project/showKevin Darras, Matthias Markolf
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FishsoundsFishGlobalhttps://fishsounds.net/index.jsFishbase, Meridian, Univ Sao Paulo, Univ Victoria, Univ Florida1,2591,000
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Fonoteca Neotropical Jacques Vielliard (FNJV)AnyNeotropicshttps://www2.ib.unicamp.br/fnjv/State University of Campinas81,383> 4,500
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FonoZooAnyGlobalhttps://www.fonozoo.com/National Museum of Natural Sciences of Madrid12,5021,665
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Freshwater Sounds ArchiveFreshwater speciesGlobalhttps://fishsounds.net/freshwater.jsJack Greenhalgh
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FrogIDFrogsAustraliahttps://www.frogid.net.au/Australian Museum200
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George Vlad libraryMultipleGlobalhttps://mindful-audio.com/George Vlad
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Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment SurveyMarine mammalsHawaiihttps://www.soest.hawaii.edu/ore/dclde/dataset/NOAA14
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iNaturalistAnyGlobalhttps://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&quality_grade=research&soundsn/a (independent non-profit)487,881 research-grade8,295 research-grade
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Macaulay LibraryBird-focused, but includes all speciesGlobalhttps://search.macaulaylibrary.org/catalog?searchField=animals&mediaType=audioCornell Lab of Ornithology2,006,535
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Montana Acoustic AtlasAnyMontana, Wyoming (USA)https://acousticatlas.org/index.phpMontana State Univ3,091900
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Morcegoteca bat libraryBatsBrazilhttps://ppbio.inpa.gov.br/en/Bat_LibraryINPA (Brazil)
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NABatBatsNorth Americahttps://www.nabatmonitoring.org/Bat Conservation International, NAbat
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Nepal bat call libraryBatsNepalhttps://smcrf.org/resource/nepalbatcall/Small Mammals Conservation and Research Foundation
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PNWbatBatsNorthwestern USAhttps://depts.washington.edu/sdwasm/pnwbat/batcall.htmlJanet Erickson & Dr. Stephen West, University of Washington
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SonothequeAnyGlobalhttps://sonotheque.mnhn.fr/Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle28,000
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TERNAnyAustraliahttps://portal.tern.org.au/results?searchTerm=AND%3Aacoustic
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UK Insect soundsInsectsUKhttps://soundcloud.com/nhmlondon/sets/insect-soundsNatural History Museum (UK)
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UK Orthoptera & Allied InsectsInsectsUKhttps://orthoptera.org.uk/content/species-accountsUKCEH, BRC, NBN, JNCC
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Watkins Marine Mammal Sound DatabaseMarine mammalsGlobalhttps://cis.whoi.edu/science/B/whalesounds/index.cfmWoods Hole (WHOI)55
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WikiAves BrazilBirdsBrazilhttps://www.wikiaves.com.br/?1,961
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WikiAves ColombiaBirdsColombiahttps://wikiaves.icesi.edu.co/Icesi University
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Xeno-CantoBirds mostly, but some bats & insectsGlobalhttps://xeno-canto.org/Naturalis Biodiversity Center794,25011,033
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Yellowstone Sound LibraryBirds, mammals, frogsWyoming, USAhttps://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/photosmultimedia/soundlibrary.htmUSA National Park Service70
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BioAcousticAI listAnyGlobalhttps://bioacoustic-ai.github.io/bioacoustics-datasets/Céline Angonin (BioAcousticAI)
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LILA BC acoustic datasetsAnyGlobalhttps://lila.science/otherdatasets#bioacousticsDan Morris (Google)
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Fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Southwestern Amazon BasinBirdsSouthwestern Amazon Basinhttps://zenodo.org/records/7079124Cornell Yang Center21 hour-long files, annotated with 14,798 bounding box labels132
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List of annotated bird bioacoustic datasetsBirdsGlobalhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KrmCB0vvSK7V3znJfycO-eOMZJKP2F-Ih6neRYPz1Xc/edit#gid=0Tessa Rhinehart
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AnuraSetFrogsBrazilhttps://soundclim.github.io/anuraweb/SoundClim development team
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