Passive acoustic monitoring is a non‐invasive tool for automated wildlife monitoring. This
technique has several advantages and addresses many of the biases related to traditional …

Automated recognition software is paramount for effective passive acoustic monitoring.
BirdNET is a free and recently developed bird sound recognizer. I performed a literature …

Passive acoustic monitoring of biodiversity is growing fast, as it offers an alternative to
traditional aural point count surveys, with the possibility to deploy long‐term acoustic …

Autonomous recording units have been widely used in a large number of bird studies in
recent years, but challenges remain in estimating abundance based on acoustic monitoring …

Background Automated sound recorders are a popular sampling tool in ecology. However,
the microphones themselves received little attention so far, and specifications that determine …

Potoos (Nyctibius spp.) are nocturnal Neotropical canopy-dwelling birds, making them one
of the most enigmatic and least known avian families. The Common Potoo (Nyctibius …

Chaco Chachalaca (Ortalis canicollis) is a declining Neotropical bird, for which our current
knowledge about its natural history is very limited. Here, we evaluated for first time the utility …

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM)–an approach that uses autonomous acoustic recording
units (ARUs)–can provide insights into the behavior of cryptic or endangered species that …

Bird vocal activity is affected by endogenous and exogenous factors. Owl surveys are mainly
based on the detection of nocturnal calls, and therefore, the impact of exogenous factors on …

Current knowledge regarding the vocal behavior in tropical non-passerines is very limited.
Here, we employed passive acoustic monitoring to study the vocal activity of the white-tipped …