A global assessment of BirdNET performance: Differences among continents, biomes, and species

2026/01/01 by David Funosas, Esther Sebastián‐González, Jon Morant +97 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior #Avian ecology and behavior #Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation

paper · doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.114550

Abstract

International audience

Citations

• Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth
• Terrestrial Passive Acoustic Monitoring: Review and Perspectives
• Estimating bird density using passive acoustic monitoring: a review of methods and suggestions for further research
• Automated bird sound classifications of long-duration recordings produce occupancy model outputs similar to manually annotated data
• <scp>BirdNET</scp>: applications, performance, pitfalls and future opportunities

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Discussions

• BirdNET has been a huge leap forward in #bioacoustics. Analysis from the WABAD collaboration, shows high precision (proportion of predictions that are correct) though modest recall (proportion of call [bsky, 14 points, 0 comments]

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