Xeno-canto - Wildlife sounds from around the world

Occurrence
Latest version published by Xeno-canto Foundation for Nature Sounds on Dec 19, 2022 Xeno-canto Foundation for Nature Sounds
Publication date:
19 December 2022
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

Xeno-canto (XC) is an online database that provides access to sound recordings of wildlife from around the world. The recordings are shared by a growing community of thousands of recordists from around the world, amateurs and professionals alike. The aim of Xeno-canto is to eventually represent sounds of all animals, meaning of all taxa, to subspecies level, of their complete repertoire, with all of the geographic variability, at all stages of development.

The website of Xeno-canto (www.xeno-canto.org) was launched in 2005, and initially focussed on Neotropical birds. The scope of Xeno-canto is gradually widening. It is run by the Xeno-canto Foundation for Nature Sounds in The Netherlands, with support from Naturalis Biodiversity Center.

Please note that the Xeno-canto dataset shared on GBIF is currently a subset of the entire XC collection that is available on www.xeno-canto.org. Only the recordings by recordists who have given their permission to share recording metadata with GBIF are shared at the moment. We expect the dataset to increase over time, as more recordists give permission to share data with GBIF.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 9,445 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
9445
Multimedia 
28335

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Vellinga, W.P., Planque, R. & Xeno-canto foundation (2005- ), Xeno-canto - wildlife sounds from around the world. GBIF subset, accessed at ....

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Xeno-canto Foundation for Nature Sounds. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 110fd314-e124-40f5-b607-b59392be37f6.  Xeno-canto Foundation for Nature Sounds publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

aves, birds, bird sounds, orthoptera, orthoptera sounds, animalia, animal sounds, wildlife sounds; occurrence; Observation; Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Willem-Pier Vellinga
  • Point Of Contact
Stichting Xeno-canto voor Natuurgeluiden
Willem-Pier Vellinga
  • Point Of Contact
  • Chair
Stichting Xeno-canto voor Natuurgeluiden
Willem-Pier Vellinga
  • Point Of Contact
  • admin
Stichting Xeno-canto voor Natuurgeluiden
Jeroen Creuwels
  • PROGRAMMER
  • Data manager
NLBIF
  • P.O. Box 9517
NL-2300 RA Leiden
NL
Niels Raes
  • PROCESSOR
  • Node manager
NLBIF
  • P.O. Box 9517
NL-2300 RA Leiden
NL
Naturalis
  • P.O. Box 9517
NL-2300 RA Leiden
NL

Geographic Coverage

Global

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Aves (taxonomy based on IOC World Bird List), Orthoptera (taxonomy based on Orthoptera Species File).

Class Aves (Birds)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers)

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period 1900-current

Project Data

In dit project wordt de website en database van www.xeno-canto.org gereed gemaakt voor sprinkhaangeluiden. De sprinkhaangeluiden worden op GBIF gepubliceerd, via de eerder met hulp van NLBIF gerealiseerde publicatieroute die gebruik maakt van de infrastructuur van Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Het project levert een infrastructuur op waarmee later ook geluiden van bijvoorbeeld zoogdieren en amfibieën kunnen worden ontsloten. Hiermee zet Xeno-Canto een belangrijke stap naar een hoogwaardig wereldwijd platform voor een gemeenschap gewijd aan natuurgeluiden.

Title Van Acheta tot zoemertje: Sprinkhaangeluiden op Xeno-Canto en GBIF
Identifier nlbif2020.004
Funding Transfer of metadata to GBIF has been in large part funded by NLBIF in projects Natu161220is01 and nlbif2020.004.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

No Description available

Quality Control Identifications of recordings are subject to crowdsourced validation by the Xeno-canto community. Identifications can be discussed and flagged for review. When this is the case, the identification status is indicated in the occurrence data.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Vellinga, W.P. & R. Planque (2015). CLEF2015 Working Notes, CEUR Workshop proceedings Vol-1391.
  2. Vellinga, W.P., B. Planque, S. Pieterse & J. Jongsma (2017). www.xeno-canto.org: a decade on. Neotropical Birding 21: 40-47.

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