Bioacoustics and community knowledge for climate change monitoring

Explore EarthHz Platform

Or learn more below:

Overview & How-to
Listen to Learn
Label
(celebrating our Top Labelers!)
Train & Verify
Further Research
Meet the Team

Overview & How-to

Stream our audio archive
from Nepal, Bolivia, and USA
on EarthHz collaborative platform!

Screenshot of EarthHz Platform Project page at
data.songsofadaptation.org/projects

Documentation:

LISTEN TO LEARN

More details about the project:

To preserve, we must first listen to understand. Explore these bird calls.

Rufous-Throated Wren-Babbler
Spelaeornis caudatus
(Nepal)
Labels on EarthHz
On xeno-canto
_______________________

Himalayan Cuckoo
Cuculus saturatus
(Nepal)
Labels on EarthHz
On xeno-canto
_______________________

Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbird
Sciaphylax hemimelaena
(Bolivia)
Labels on EarthHz
On xeno-canto
_______________________

Screaming Piha
Lipaugus vociferans
(Bolivia)
Labels on EarthHz
On xeno-canto
_______________________

Red-winged Blackbird
Agelaius phoeniceus
(USA)
Labels on EarthHz
On xeno-canto
_______________________

Carolina Wren
Thryothorus ludovicianus
(USA)
Labels on EarthHz
On xeno-canto
_______________________

LABEL

Already know bird calls? Add labels on EarthHz!

Listen to Full Recordings:

Label a species in the machine learning outputs:

  1. Click +Add Label button on any clip
  2. Choose your certainty: definitely or maybe
  3. Choose the type of label: usually species
  4. Type or choose the label name. ie: Glaucidium brodiei (Collared Owlet)
  5. (optional) Choose type of vocalization
  6. Press Save
  7. New! Bulk Label the entire page a single species by clicking Select All or check boxes beside each clip.

Celebrating the work

Over 37,000 labels have been added on EarthHz!

NepalBoliviaUSA
30,414 total labels6,666 total labels855 total labels

Kudos to our top data labelers!

Thank you for helping us preserve biodiversity globally.

Hari Basnet

Sebastian Herzog

Nawang S. Gurung

Bhumika Thapa
Damian Christey
Daniel Farmer
Ruth Taylor
Tek Gharti Magar
Dan Boone

TRAIN & VERIFY

Join the citizen science project

Help train the AI. Label bird calls. Swiftly return results to communities. Understand patterns and changes in our world.

Verify the results of AI analysis

Retraining and verifying is an iterative process.

Study the species labels on EarthHz. Feeling confident identifying the calls? Help us with the species below!

Documentation:

Learn more about the AI analysis:

  • create an iteration,
  • train/label/retrain iterative process,
  • run the model, and
  • analyze results

see Model Flow Google Doc

Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbird Sciaphylax hemimelaena of Bolivia

✔ Verified 75% accurate results

How you can help: Find and label any wrong calls and make notes on patterns you see in the Species Worksheet (request access to internal Google Doc).

Satyr Tragopan Tragopan satyra of Nepal

✘ NOT YET VERIFIED RESULTS

How you can help: Find and label 200+ more Tragopan calls and make notes on patterns you see in the Species Worksheet (request access to internal Google Doc).

Collared Owlet Glaucidium brodiei of Nepal

✘ NOT YET VERIFIED RESULTS

How you can help: Find and label 200+ more Owlet calls. What patterns do you notice in the data?

Himalayan Cuckoo Cuculus saturatus of Nepal

✘ NOT YET VERIFIED RESULTS

How you can help: Find and label 200+ more Cuckoo calls and make notes on patterns you see in the Species Worksheet (request access to internal Google Doc).

Great barbet Megalaima virens of Nepal

✘ NOT YET VERIFIED RESULTS

How you can help: Find and label 200+ more Barbet calls. What patterns do you notice in the data?

Screaming Piha Siringuero of Bolivia

✘ NOT YET VERIFIED RESULTS

How you can help: Find and label 200+ more Piha calls. What patterns do you notice in the data?

Plumbeous Pigeon Patagioenas plumbea of Bolivia

✘ NOT YET VERIFIED RESULTS

How you can help: Find and label 200+ more pigeon calls. What patterns do you notice in the data?

Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus of the USA

✘ NOT YET VERIFIED RESULTS

How you can help: Find and label 200+ more Carolina Wren calls. What patterns do you notice in the data?

Bluejay Cyanocitta cristata of the USA

✘ NOT YET VERIFIED RESULTS

How you can help: Find and label 200+ more Bluejay calls. What patterns do you notice in the data?

Red-Winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus of the USA

✘ NOT YET VERIFIED RESULTS

How you can help: Find and label 200+ more Blackbird calls. What patterns do you notice in the data?

Further Research

Highlights

Our team is hard at work verifying and analyzing species presence results. Until publication, here are some fun highlights!

Satyr Tragopan Breeding season peaks can be seen April and May in the machine learning results

There is great research potential in additional species training and model analysis. See sheet below documenting accuracy of model performance based on training labels.

Songs team can edit/see the sheet here

Meet the Team

Core team working on the GEOBON partnership 2021

Naomi Bates, Project Director, Associate Professor, Future Generations University

Native of West Virginia, USA — environmental scientist & engineer — GIS & LiDAR nerd — using science to empower communities

Help support this work ❤️

Donate