What’s of interest? Dawn Chorus - Citizen Science
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During this brief moment of silence, project Dawn Chorus was brought to life by the Naturkundemuseum Bayern with BIOTOPIA LAB and the Foundation Arts and Nature (Nantesbuch), with support from the Max Planck Society. During an extremely short timeframe, a number of people came together to launch the project, inspired by the works of „father of soundscaping“, bioacoustician and musician, Bernie Krause (The Doors“, Frank Zappa, „The Weavers“). Since then, Dawn Chorus invites people from all across the globe to experience and to record the morning concert, to help make nature’s voice be heard.
Many bird species are so-called indicator species as they provide information about different properties of a habitat. Long-term collections of early-morning bird sound recordings can thus help us to detect changes in habitats, for example by telling us where species disappear or appear, or how birds change their behaviour.
The scientific goal of Dawn Chorus is to document bird diversity over time using sound recordings through the help of citizen scientists. This “acoustic biomonitoring” data helps to discover changes in biodiversity. For scientific comparability, the free Dawn Chorus App for Android and iOS was developed in 2021. The main scientific data collection period always takes place in May.
Not just another Citizen Science project
The scientific goal of Dawn Chorus is to monitor bird diversity over the years using sound recordings and the help of citizen scientists. The data from this “acoustic biomonitoring” helps to show changes in species composition.
The main collecting period always takes place in May, when birds are breeding.
Where is it?: https://dawn-chorus.org/
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