Xeno-canto - Wildlife sounds from around the world

Willem-Pier Vellinga1, Jeroen Creuwels2, Niels Raes2

1 Stichting Xeno-canto voor Natuurgeluiden, ; 2 NLBIF, P.O. Box 9517, NL-2300 RA, Leiden, Netherlands

Corresponding author(s): Willem-Pier Vellinga (contact@xeno-canto.org), Willem-Pier Vellinga (wp@xeno-canto.org)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Vellinga, W.P., Planque, R. & Xeno-canto foundation (2005- ), Xeno-canto - bird sounds from around the world. GBIF subset, accessed at ....

Abstract

Xeno-canto (XC) is an online database that provides access to sound recordings of wild birds from around the world. The recordings are shared by a growing community of thousands of recordists from around the world, amateur birdwatchers and professionals alike. The aim of Xeno-canto is to have representation of all bird sounds, meaning all taxa, to subspecies level, their complete repertoire, all of the geographic variability, at all stages of development.
The website of Xeno-canto (www.xeno-canto.org) was launched in 2005. It is run by the Xeno-canto Foundation for Nature Sounds in The Netherlands, with support from Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
Please note that the Xeno-canto dataset shared on GBIF is currently a subset of the entire XC collection. Only the recordings by recordists who have given their permission to share recording metadata with GBIF are shared at the moment. We expect the dataset to increase over time, as more recordists give permission to share data with GBIF.

Keywords: aves, birds, bird sounds, occurrence, Observation, Occurrence

Project details

Personnel: 

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=test-multimedia-marie

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Birds, with taxonomy based on IOC World Bird List.

Common names: Birds

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Global
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Formation period: 1900-current

Methods

Method step description: this is a test
Quality control description: Identifications of recordings are subject to crowdsourced validation by the Xeno-canto community. Identifications can be discussed and flagged for review. When this is the case, the identification status is indicated in the occurrence data.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Xeno-canto - Wildlife sounds from around the world
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.gbif.org/archive.do?r=test-multimedia-marie
Publication date of data: 2022-08-25
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-08-25
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Vellinga, W.P. & R. Planque (2015). CLEF2015 Working Notes, CEUR Workshop proceedings Vol-1391.
Vellinga, W.P., B. Planque, S. Pieterse & J. Jongsma (2017). www.xeno-canto.org: a decade on. Neotropical Birding 21: 40-47.