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Current Articles

• Spectrolipi v2.0.1 is released. by Nishant Bhagwat
• Introducing xcapi: A simple way to access Xeno-canto data from the command line and Python by Burooj Ghani
• Annota-JSON: a JSON format for annotation of sound recordings by Willem-Pier Vellinga & Bob Planqué
• Annotations in Xeno-canto by Willem-Pier Vellinga & Bob Planqué
• Bird species not represented on xeno-canto by Shaun Peters
• Spectrolipi: An Open‑Source Tool for Bioacoustics Annotation by Nishant Bhagwat
• filming-sessions OFFLINE!!! with e.g. 7.000 bird-files .. . by johannes buhl
• long-file-project .. for lomj-disance-city runners .. same .. in car-drives .. kids .. or kitchen cleaner by bzcuhlA03n
• Breaking a Lance for Noise by Frank Holzapfel
• Nightsingers 2025! by FlackoWeasel
• 20 years of XC! by Willem-Pier Vellinga and Bob Planqué
• offline XC-ids ...hear and e.g. manage in excif..or IN CSV-xc-files search tool navigate by johannes buhl
• I FINISH!! MANY THANKS TO AND FOR ALL!!!!!!!! by bzcuhlA03n
• uncommen way of moving for us recordist in XC by bzcuhlA03n
• Alcedo atthis and Cinclus cinclus experiency prolect.. of myne . by bzcuhlA03n
• a bird-recordist stroll without recorder..but still a laptop.. on a farmfield . by bzcuhlA03n
• Specific invidual Blyth's Reed Warblers can be identified by their singing pattern! (+ Sample database) by FlackoWeasel
• API functionality updated by Bob Planqué and Willem-Pier Vellinga
• Western Palaearctic Soundalikes - a xeno-canto community project [PROJECT CLOSED] by Frank Holzapfel
• Immersion sonore dans le Petit Palais en Paris by Ulf Elman
• Preliminary Survey of Call Types within the Red-legged Thrush (Turdus plumbeus) Complex by Daniel Parker
• Weighted SNR as a quantitative guide tool in rating perceived recording sound quality A-E by Ulf Elman
• A short introduction to Machine Learning results by Bob Planqué and Willem-Pier Vellinga
• Bavarian river FATHER LECH!! from the Xeno-Canto .. BIRD'S PERSPECTIVE ..heard!!! by bzcuhlA03n
• Use of XC recordings in external projects by Bob Planqué
• Preparing your recordings for batch upload by Bob Planqué
• Stridulation in dermestid beetles by Sarah Mahie
• erlebnisse eines XC-recordisten..hacek'ös betrachtet by bzcuhlA03n
• A Call for 'See' Calls - a xeno-canto community project [PROJECT CLOSED] by Frank Holzapfel
• New article on Jack snipe flight pattern using 3D sound in press by Stein Ø. Nilsen
• vogelalter und wahrnehmung ... hochgerechnet by bzcuhlA03n
• birds of a bushes..and ried . ..rest-relikt-senke...in farmlands of bobingen/schwettinger by bzcuhlA03n
• Zoom F3 Setup Guide for Nature Recordings by Stein Ø. Nilsen
• birdering with external apps ... e.g. .. e.g. from me .... by bzcuhlA03n
• New App for Nocmig (Nocturnal Flight Call) Identification by Matthew Kirkland
• meine XC-ids .. schnellwhlordner ..gezeigt in kurfilm..playliste u-tube by bzcuhlA03n
• the year 2013 of me in augsburg .. gathered by former..tutors-in-XC ... . by bzcuhlA03n
• Exploring duration as an acoustic cue to distinguish between Sylvia atricapilla (Blackcap) and Sylvia borin (Garden warbler) by Sidney Martin
• divergent weather..affairs at shown here XC-ids in bobingen/bayern by bzcuhlA03n
• more or less well analyzed Tits of me by bzcuhlA03n
• Eurasian Pygmy Owl Glaucidium passerinum sound types by Frank DD4WH
• The Orthoptera update by Bob Planqué
• Another gift from Bernabé López-Lanús by Willem-Pier Vellinga
• Song structure of male Asio otus more complex than field guides indicate by Ulf Elman
• ZOOM F6 - setup for bird-recorders by Stein Ø. Nilsen
• Editing birdsounds in 32-Bit Float, Example with Zoom F6 by Stein Ø. Nilsen
• Noteworthy bird records from the Araracuara area, Amazonas and Caquetá, Colombia by Jacob B. Socolar, José Fernando-Castaño, Johnnier Arango
• Addendum to the Bird Song Key to the Birds of Pipeline Road Area, Soberanía National Park, Panama: Two Additional Wrens by Kent Livezey
• Xeno-Canto alternative for Chiroptera taxa by ORTION Samuel
• Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus x ochruros hybrids and mixed singers by Nicolas Martinez
• Greenfinches: exploring the duration of the nasal “tswee” from individuals recorded in Southern, Western and Northern Europe by Sidney M
• Recording with your Android-smartphone by Micha Luhn
• Bird identification Apps: Q&A with Mario Lasseck by Alvaro Ortiz Troncoso
• 32-bit float files – a new era in bird recordings? by Stein Ø. Nilsen
• Ask anything about automatic birdsong id apps, with Mario Lasseck by Alvaro Ortiz Troncoso
• Central American Antbird Identification by Song and Call by William Young
• Bird Species not yet sound-recorded by Shaun Peters
• On the vocalizations of Cossypha heuglini and Cossypha semirufa by James Bradley
• Updates to Xeno-canto.org in 2019 by Willem-Pier Vellinga
• birds in stormy weather by johannes buhl
• IOC8.2 => IOC9.1 update 14 august 2019 by Willem-Pier Vellinga
• IOC updates december 2018 by Willem-Pier Vellinga
• Identification of some Brazilian elaenias by voice by Jeremy Minns
• Mimicry of Western Bonelli Warbler by the Common Redstart in Northern Europe by Jacques Comolet-Tirman
• IOC updates 23 July 2018 by Willem-Pier Vellinga
• New website using XC - Northern Birdsong by Stein Ø. Nilsen
• modern film with natur-pictures and birdsound. by johannes buhl
• Black-crested Antshrike · Sakesphorus canadensis sounds by Willem-Pier Vellinga
• Traffic noise – damaging to birds and a nuisance to recordists by Ulf Elman
• Vocalisations of the northern goshawk and their relation to the annual breeding cycle by Alvaro Ortiz Troncoso
• Vocal differences in <em>Elaenia obscura</em> by Jeremy Minns
• Audacity - a quick guide to filters by Stein Ø. Nilsen
• Bokmakierie (Telophorus zeylonus) repertoire from Montagu district, Western Cape, South Africa by Marion Maclean
• Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America. by Richard E. Webster
• Vocal repertoires of the Drymophila antbirds by Jeremy Minns
• Developing a key to bird songs along Panama’s Pipeline Road using xeno-canto recordings by Kent Livezey
• Missing neotropical species as of February 2017 by Willem-Pier Vellinga
• An Approach to Identifying Bird Songs: A Key to More Than 300 Songs in the Pipeline Road Area, Soberanía National Park, Panama by Kent Livezey
• Geographical variation in the song of the Goldcrest (Regulus regulus regulus) by Ulf Elman
• Riparian Antbird Split (Cercomacra fuscicauda) by Scott Olmstead
• Delineating the <em>Lepidocolaptes albolineatus</em> complex by Jeremy Minns
• Citizen Science: Tracking variation in songs of white-throated sparrows by Steffi LaZerte
• Range maps on XC : a call to action! by Rolf A. de By
• Serpophaga [subcristata] vocalizations by Niels Krabbe
• Great variation in Redwing dialects in Troms county, Norway by Stein Ø. Nilsen
• repertoire Drymophila squamata by Willem-Pier Vellinga
• Marsh warbler mimicking identified African and European bird sounds in recording by Ulf Elman
• Vocal Repertoires of the Attilas by Jeremy Minns
• Dialects of the Cetti's Warbler (Cettia cetti) by Daniel Parker
• Yellowhammer Dialects by Pavel Pipek
• BirdCLEF 2014: international bird songs recognition evaluation campaign by alexis joly
• Taxonomy update, January 2014 by Jonathon Jongsma
• Links to literature from Bioacústica Latinoamérica by Héctor Perdomo-Velázquez
• Xeno-canto API 2.0 by Jonathon Jongsma
• Subspecies designations, a guide by Dan Lane
• Make your recordings count! by Dan Lane
• North American bird sounds needed by Nathan Pieplow
• Enregistrer des chants d’oiseaux avec un smartphone (Recording birdsounds with a smartphone, in french) by Franck HIDVEGI
• Vocal variation and future splits of the Large-billed Crow complex by Mike Nelson
• Using Audacity for analysing and editing recordings of bird voices by Volker Arnold
• Spotted Antpitta splits into three (or four) by Jon King
• Use of the xeno-canto collection by Bob Planque & Willem-Pier Vellinga
• Vocal comparison of the genus <i>Turtur</i> Wood Doves by Mike Nelson
• Whip-poor-will Split by Mike Nelson
• White-crowned Manakin vocal variation by Andrew Spencer
• Rufous Antpitta vocal variation by Andrew Spencer
• Xeno-canto: About, aims, history by Willem-Pier Vellinga & Bob Planqué
• Recording birdsounds with Telinga stereo PluginPower and H4n by Stein Ø. Nilsen
• Embedding XC recordings in eBird by Scott Olmstead
• XC to do list: what would you like to see in xeno canto? by Mike Nelson
• Orphean Warbler Split by Mike Nelson
• Overview maps of the xeno-canto collection by Bob Planque
• Variation in Tuftedcheek vocalizations by Andrew Spencer
• Scytalopus latrans subcinereus by Willem-Pier Vellinga
• Do garden warblers with abnormal song imitate African species by Poul Hansen
• Another Violaceous Trogon Split by Scott Olmstead
• SACC 378 : Splitting Trogon violaceus by Willem-Pier Vellinga
• Variation in Band-winged Nightjar vocalizations by Andrew Spencer
• Vocal Variation in Boat-billed Flycatcher (Megarynchus pitangua) by Nathan Pieplow
• Grallaricula Antpitta songs by Bob Planque
• The mystery of the Three-wattled Bellbird by Bob Planque
• Separating Social and Rusty-margined Flycatcher by voice by Bob Planque
• SACC 394 : Splitting Automolus rubiginosus by Willem-Pier Vellinga
• SACC 379 : Splitting Trogon viridis by Willem-Pier Vellinga
• SACC 380 : Splitting Trogon melanurus by Willem-Pier Vellinga
• SACC 362 : splitting Zimmerius gracilipes by Bob Planque

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