Simply Amazing Numbers
Wow, what an amazing database of audio recordings this project has become. As of today, there are almost 4,000 species from 5,690 users uploaded to iNat. @dbeadle with over 500 species is far and away the leader in species and @sandboa with over 1,900 recordings is leading that category by a wide margin. Simply mind-blowing numbers.
The top four species by number of observations are birds and frogs, which I expected, though I wouldn't have been able to guess which species. I'm surprised that #5 is an insect, Silver Princess (Yoyetta celis) with 576 observations. March and April of 2020 have logged over 1,000 unique observers, with March being the first time this occurred.
The only continent without an audio observation is Antarctica. Observations have been uploaded from 150 countries! The United States and western Europe look like a blanket of observations. Some of my favorite observations are the geographical one-offs:
Côte d'Ivoire by @hippolytep38
Djibouti by @saucierj
Ethiopia by @f_morand
Gambia by @curcu34
Georgia by @mkyhnde
Guadeloupe by @valeria89
Guam by @micahfreedman
Iraq by @zayn_alnajm
Kazakhstan by @kastani
Mongolia by @gonodactylus
Oman by @tbrooks
Palau by @sea-kangaroo
Saint Kitts and Nevis by @mlodinow
Seychelles by @rbgb
An iNat-generated heat map of audio observations is here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/map?project_id=audio-observations-from-around-the-world#2/0/0
Check it out @gregconiglio
A huge thank you, not only to the top five in each category (@sandboa, @christie22, @ruslan_mazuryk, @joelp, @rwp84, @dbeadle, @wsweet321, @ntepper, @gyrrlfalcon, @tkoffel), but to everyone who has contributed audio recordings. You are reason that this database has become so fantastic. @kueda and @loarie, did you have any idea what was in store when you added the ability to upload audio files? Thanks for doing so and congratulations on the overwhelming success.
For those interested, here is the list of all countries from which an observation has been uploaded.
Åland , Akrotiri and Dhekelia , Albania , Algeria , Angola , Argentina , Aruba , Australia , Austria , Bahamas , Barbados , Belarus , Belgium , Belize , Benin , Bermuda , Bhutan , Bolivia , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Botswana , Brazil , British Virgin Islands , Brunei , Bulgaria , Côte d'Ivoire , Cambodia , Cameroon , Canada , Cape Verde , Cayman Islands , Central African Republic , Chile , China , Colombia , Costa Rica , Croatia , Cuba , Curacao , Cyprus , Czech Republic , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Denmark , Djibouti , Dominican Republic , Ecuador , Egypt , El Salvador , Estonia , Eswatini , Ethiopia , Fiji , Finland , France , Gabon , Gambia , Georgia , Germany , Ghana , Greece , Greenland , Guadeloupe , Guatemala , Guyana , Haiti , Honduras , Hong Kong , Hungary , Iceland , India , Indonesia , Iran , Iraq , Ireland , Isle of Man , Israel , Italy , Jamaica , Japan , Jordan , Kazakhstan , Kenya , Laos , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Macao , Madagascar , Malawi , Malaysia , Martinique , Mexico , Mongolia , Morocco , Mozambique , Myanmar , Namibia , Netherlands , New Zealand , Nicaragua , Nigeria , Northern Cyprus , Norway , Oman , Pakistan , Palau , Panama , Paraguay , Peru , Philippines , Poland , Portugal , Republic of Congo , Romania , Russia , Rwanda , Saint Kitts and Nevis , Saint-Martin , Saudi Arabia , Senegal , Serbia , Seychelles , Singapore , Sint Maarten , Slovakia , Slovenia , South Africa , South Korea , Spain , Sri Lanka , Svalbard and Jan Mayen , Sweden , Switzerland , Taiwan , Tajikistan , Tanzania , Thailand , Togo , Trinidad and Tobago , Tunisia , Turkey , Uganda , Ukraine , United Arab Emirates , United Kingdom , United States , Uruguay , Uzbekistan , Venezuela , Vietnam , Zambia , Zimbabwe
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I had NO idea I was in the top five in species on this project. I've been using SIP time to assemble a list of bird species for which I need sound recordings on iNat and eBird, so watch out - I'm not done yet! Thanks for corralling this project, BJ!
Thanks for the update. Love the Audio Observations project! Always fun when someone uploads an audio observation of a bird and a number of people comment to try to ID the bird, or even better, point out a different bird species call/song in the background :-)
wow very cool! I'm curious what work flows most people recommend for recording audio and getting it posted in obs form - particularly those that don't involve special equipment beyond an iPhone and computer
Hi @loarie My method is a bit clunky. The audio capture is usually a by-product of taking still images. I video the species on my camera, then extract the audio from the video using Online Audio Converter: https://online-audio-converter.com/ Sometimes for nocturnal birds for example, even if I can't see the species, I'll video blackness, then extract the audio.
Glad I was able to help! I also add my audio to this site https://www.xeno-canto.org/contributor/QIUOHGLLRX It's nice to see my name on the list. Thank you!
@loarie - eBird recommended a specific iPhone app, called "Voice Record" and specific settings to optimize bird recordings. They said the quality is much improved over using the built-in iPhone Voice Memo. .wav files are preferred. Here's the eBird page about this - https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48001064305-smartphone-recording-tips
What I do is record in the field, edit in the field as possible or at home (editing usually means just snipping the beginning and ending), then retitle it by keeping the time-stamped default name but adding the name of the species in some abbreviated form in front of that. Once home I use Airdrop to get it to my computer. From there it is an easy upload - and the date and time stamp give me precision which I can map onto other observations from that day for a good location in the Upload program.
awesome thanks for the tips -
Really neat, thanks for writing this up! There's a Australian cicada project that I think is responsible for a lot of the recordings there. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/the-great-cicada-blitz-nsw-australia
@loarie I just record video on my camera, and on Mac opening the movie file in QuickTime has an "export audio only" menu option, which makes a file that can be dragged into the iNat web uploader. I've also made recordings directly from the iNat app, but my phone's microphone pickup isn't nearly as sensitive.
I have a friend with an iPhone who says his app doesn't allow the direct uploading of a recording (i.e. recording from within the app). My android iNat app allows me to record and upload directly using the recording app of my choice (RecForge).
Is it true that you can't record from within the iPhone app?
In answer to @loarie , for most of my records I have recorded using a dedicated microphone and recorder and come home and edit/trim out the species of interest and convert the wav to mp3 for space savings. But that was before the app was updated.
But with the addition of the ability to record straight from the app, I now often just record using my phone (carefully - i.e. put it down on a flat surface or on a flat open palm, make sure I protect it from wind with my shirt or a small cloth) and record 15-30 seconds of the species call and upload it directly. I may log in on the computer the next day to upload a "better" recording from my recorder other gear if I made one. I will also log in to duplicate records where more than one species is heard in the recording.
But recording from within the app has made it MUCH easier to add sound records.
@loarie, I use my phone (Android) to make the recording and then use Audacity on my computer to trim the file and increase the volume (amplify). I like taking a screenshot of the spectrogram and uploading that too. I like to take photos too and that gives me exact time and GPS that I can use to map into iNat.
I haven't really gotten into doing more than that, but if using Audacity (which is free) here's link to better one's editing skills.
https://www.learnupon.com/blog/elearning-audacity-audio-quality/
I would like to get a small boom microphone that will work with my phone. But right now that is just one more thing that I would have to carry. iNat has opened so many more doors for me in what I enjoy doing, but I'm going to need a Sherpa and cart to have it all with me on outings.
I do hope that there is some cooperation between this project & the Macaulay Library, which has masses of audio as well.
@val_la_may, that would be neat but at this time there is no cooperation with Cornell. I know that many birders want to have eBird records incorporated too,
Thx finatic. Sad to hear that there is no cooperation with Cornell. You all should stick together. Strength in Unity! After all, your country is being run by barbarians; you need all the strength you can muster.
Getting updates on some of these numbers would be appreciated -- for one, looks like AQ's been multiply-bagged by now!
Is there a co-moderator for this group, now that finatic has gone to record wildlife in other realms?
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