viernes, 17 de abril de 2020

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

Publicado el viernes, 17 de abril de 2020 a las 03:56 AM por finatic finatic | 16 comentarios | Deja un comentario

jueves, 04 de enero de 2018

Tracking some of the world's biggest killers, via cellphone

Here's a neat article on how recording mosquitoes might be useful in tracking deadly mosquitoes.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-12-25/tracking-some-worlds-biggest-killers-cellphone
Thanks for sending it to me @patsimpson2000

If you do record some mosquitoes, please make sure to post to iNaturalist too.

Publicado el jueves, 04 de enero de 2018 a las 03:21 PM por finatic finatic | 6 comentarios | Deja un comentario

jueves, 10 de agosto de 2017

iNaturalist hosting of soundfiles

iNaturalist is trialing an interface for uploading sound files here instead of soundcloud
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/inaturalist/SAlkMvsNTwM
Give it a go and give feedback

Native hosting of sound files is now live, and it works :-)

Publicado el jueves, 10 de agosto de 2017 a las 10:46 AM por tony_wills tony_wills | 2 comentarios | Deja un comentario

sábado, 08 de julio de 2017

Soundcloud's Future?

Just a note to those of us who use Soundcloud to host our recordings here on Inaturalist.
Soundcloud is in some financial trouble (and have been for some time). If you value the recording vouchers you have on there, you might want to make sure you have backups of those recordings.

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/soundcloud-slashes-40-staff-financial-reality-hits-hard/

Hopefully, Inaturalist will eventually catch up with the times and allow us to upload mp3s directly rather than having to rely on what may be an unreliable source!

Publicado el sábado, 08 de julio de 2017 a las 02:30 AM por sandboa sandboa | 6 comentarios | Deja un comentario

viernes, 23 de enero de 2015

Audio Editing Software

I personally use Adobe Soundbooth for my editing. As with all Adobe products it is expensive, has a steep learning curve but is high quality. If it didn't come in a package with other software that I purchased I wouldn't spend the money on it since I am only a hobbyist.

Raven Lite is a free software from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology that will let you edit your recordings. I have heard decent reviews about it but haven't used it.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/raven/RavenOverview.html

If you have other suggestions please leave a message so that others can know about it.

Update - As of April 2020 I've starting using Audacity. The learning curve was much easier than Adobe Soundbooth and works as well for my needs.

Publicado el viernes, 23 de enero de 2015 a las 03:35 PM por finatic finatic | 5 comentarios | Deja un comentario

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