Bioacoustics

Background to some bioacoustics ideas and principles

Mosaic of the air How the acoustic space can be partitioned.
Out of intense complexities… individuals and indices Balancing scope, scale and speed as the fundamental limits of what a network is capable of.
Nature is never silent? Is nature actually noisy?

Bioacoustics history

G. W. Pierce Physicist who made his own devices to study the songs of Orthoptera, started the misuse of the word pulse, and made early hydrophones.

Sonicscrewdriver is an R package that provides a set of tools for working with audio data.

Reading any type of audio file into R The sonicscrewdriver package provides a simple way to read audio files of any type into R (the most commonly used tools only deal with .wav and .mp3 files).
Generating acoustic training data in R with sonicscrewdriver - how to generate augmneted training data for machine learning from audio files.
BirdNET in R - running BirdNET from within an R environment.

.wav file size calculator: interactive wave file sizer calculator.

BioAcoustica - a repository for bioacoustic recordings I developed hosted at the Natural History Museum, London.

The Importance of Biological Sound Archives - Acoustics Today article by Jack Greenhalgh with some quotes from me on the importance of sound collections. PDF

audioBlast! - protoytpe tool to search across multiple sound collections.

Announcing ReVAMP: Bringing Vamp Audio Analysis Plugins to R (2025-12-23)
Introductory bioacoustics course (2025-09-19)
How to read any type of audio in R (2025-05-26)
AudioMoth metadata in R (2021-05-03)
Bioacoustics and military history (2021-03-02)
Audubon Core Updates: Public Review of Proposals to Update Existing Standards (2020-08-31)
So good they named it once (2020-02-08)
Churr-worms, Eve-churrs & Mole crickets (2020-01-09)
On stridulation, and dictionaries... (2020-01-09)
Embedding BioAcosutica content of other sites (2019-11-03)
Bird Identification Challenge (2018-06-28)
>spectro(2018) (2018-06-28)
Postdoctoral vacancies at University of Lincoln (2018-03-07)
Two Sound In The Sea iBooks (2018-03-05)
Natural Sound Recording and Analysis Workshops (Cornell Lab) (2018-03-05)
Popular Science Books on Orthopera Acoustics (2017-09-02)
Bird Bioacoustics Workshop - 13th July - Nottingham Trent University (2017-06-16)
Ancylecha fenestrata (Fabricius, 1793) (2017-05-24)
NHM Sound Archive (Part 1): Mole Crickets (2015-12-21)
Ecoacoustics Congress 2016 (2015-12-13)
Bioacoustics workshop at Stellenbosch University (February 2016) (2015-12-08)
BioAcoustica papers (2015-09-06)
BioAcoustica: Does MP3 work for wildlife sound? (2015-04-13)
Introducing BioAcoustica (2014-12-20)
Wildlife Sound Database (2014-11-16)
Getting the seewave R package installed on Ubuntu (2014-07-28)

Insect Orchestra article for NHM website.
Noisy neighbours: Listening in to nature in cities and towns Introduction to my research as part of the Urban Nature Project.