Course 1: Acoustic bird monitoring
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Course 1: Acoustic bird monitoring
Monday, June 2, 2025
4h (9:00 am - 1:00 pm)
Scarlet Medina
Ramón Aguilar
UNC - EAPIAC
Cost:
S/ 50.00
Conventional price
For those registered on the birdwatching routes
S/ 40.00
General Objective:
• To understand the workflow for research related to acoustic bird monitoring.
Specific Objectives:
• To create spectrograms and oscillograms using Audacity, R, and RStudio from active recordings.
• To introduce the use of software for semi-automatic bird detection and identification in passive recordings.
Includes a certificate issued by the Friends of Nature Club (CANATURA)
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Syllabus:
• Introduction to acoustic bird monitoring (Passive and active recordings).
• Basic audio editing in Audacity.
• Creation of sound banks (Spectrograms and oscillograms with RStudio).
• Considerations for installing passive recorders.
• Workflow in BirdNet.
• Tools for recording processing (Arbimon, Kaleidoscope).
• Examples of studies with acoustic monitoring.
Materials:
• Laptop, internet
• Audacity
• R and RStudio
• Birdnet GUI
• Kaleidoscope lite
• Arbimon
