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Excited to share my BSc project is just out in @BehavEcol with @nonay6 and @dr_dingle We used field recordings to study how 4 bird species in #HongKong sing under both urban noise and insect noise doi.org/10.1093/beheco… #bioacoustics #ornithology

In urban areas, darkness is increasingly rare, so how is our addiction to light at night affecting other species? Dehua Wang (Shandong University, China) & co show that Bengalese finches are relatively unaffected but zebra finches are in bad shape journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

📢 Save the date for our 1st Biodiversity Monitoring Science Fair! Online, 21-22 May. Connect with R&I, policy & business to explore the future of monitoring: tech sessions (eDNA, bioacoustics, remote sensing), project showcases, interactive talks, & more! biodiversa.eu/2025/03/31/eve…

1/ Great news! 🎉@_BTO, @JNCC_UK and @RSPBScience are making decades of @BBS_birds data freely available for everyone in the conservation and research community. This includes over 7 million records! 📝 Find out more ⬇️ or read the paper➡️ bit.ly/_BBSData #ornithology

📱 Can you hear the hidden voices in your phone? High-frequency sounds might reveal eerie whispers beyond what we normally perceive. Discover the ghostly details in speech! 🎶👻 acoustics.org/hearing-voices…

An amazing field guide on Diptera of Japan! Probably going to get the other books, too

What a twist for 20w Krathon GFS now predict it would not head to Taiwan in the latest 2 forecasts, but stay on current course and enter South China Sea instead

New preprint out (finally) !!!! We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos. @CBehav biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@EarthUncutTV All the best! Stay safe

Out for a ~11km survey route in #HongKong at the #InternationalBatNight Quite a fruitful night, haven't went through all the recordings in details yet, but estimate 14-17 #bat species recorded Thanks my friend for taking pictures of me 😁

BOW readers are invited to attend this 3-part online science workshop: Working with eBird Status and Trends Data Products. Tell your sciencey friends! #ornithology birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/ebird…

@maka_choco_ So what have you done this time? 🤔

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How can #IndigenousPeoples and #LocalCommunities better participate in #conservation? This community guide gives practical guidance on how to use new technology to monitor the #Biodiversity on their lands. transformativepathways.net/introduction-t… #TransformativePathways #ForPeopleAndNature

Amazing feeding buzz from Black-bearded Tomb Bat (Taphozous melanopogon) In love with the structure of the echolocation calls And I can hear the calls with my own ears, most likely is the 1st harmonic (~11-19khz) #HongKong #bats #wildlife

@H_Reers Thanks for sharing! The "bite" marks on my devices are very small, so could be insects. I'll look for a add-on to protect them. Last year I deployed them for a month, all 20 came back without this issue, weird.

Any #AudioMoth user came across with this situation before? The acoustics membrane broken, at first I thought it has sth to do with the parasitic wasp/fly. But 2 more units have the same issue without any cocoon around. Air pressure? Or invertebrate bites?

Rare partnership, rainbow and lightning

@FrontierLabsAU @BeeBabette @AMCELL No worries! That'd be great 😄 Thanks for that. In the meantime I'm looking for literature too, hopefully can find something useful.

@AnnToWY @BeeBabette @AMCELL I wish we knew more about moth acoustics! If we know of someone who might be able to help we'll send them your way :)

#Bioacoustics community, does anyone know how to distinguish between #moth anti-bat ultrasound, and courtship/mating ultrasound?

@FrontierLabsAU @BeeBabette @AMCELL The one above looks like from moth, but the one below seems not. I've came across with both quite often. Happy to see what do you and others think!

@BeeBabette @AnnToWY @AMCELL Not sure of the difference, but we would love to see the spectrograms if you record some @AnnToWY ! 🎙️🎶

OVER THE CARIBBEAN - Inside the eye of Category 5 Hurricane #Beryl! NOAA WP-3D Orion #NOAA43 “Miss Piggy” continues operations into Hurricane #Beryl to collect data for hurricane forecasting and research. Visit hurricanes.gov for the latest forecast and advisories. #FlyNOAA 📸: Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Doremus, NOAA Corps