Advancing Bird Population Monitoring with Acoustic Recording Technologies

Methodology

• Microphone variability and degradation: implications for monitoring programs employing autonomous recording units

  Patrick J. Turgeon, Steven L. Van Wilgenburg, Kiel L. Drake

• Direction-of-arrival estimation of animal vocalizations for monitoring animal behavior and improving estimates of abundance

  Richard W. Hedley, Yiwei Huang, Kung Yao

• Autonomous recording units in avian ecological research: current use and future applications

  Julia Shonfield, Erin M. Bayne

• Paired sampling standardizes point count data from humans and acoustic recorders

  Steven L. Van Wilgenburg, Péter Sólymos, Kevin J. Kardynal, Matthew D. Frey

• Experimentally derived detection distances from audio recordings and human observers enable integrated analysis of point count data

  Daniel A. Yip, Lionel Leston, Erin M. Bayne, Péter Sólymos, Alison Grover

• Comparison of semiautomated bird song recognition with manual detection of recorded bird song samples

  Lisa A. Venier, Marc J. Mazerolle, Anna Rodgers, Ken A. McIlwrick, Stephen Holmes, Dean Thompson

• Potential benefits of augmenting road-based breeding bird surveys with autonomous recordings

  Rhiannon F. Pankratz, Samuel Hache, Péter Sólymos, Erin M. Bayne

• Recommendations for acoustic recognizer performance assessment with application to five common automated signal recognition programs

  Elly C. Knight, Kevin C. Hannah, Gabriel J. Foley, Chris D. Scott, R. Mark Brigham, Erin Bayne