Detection ranges of forest bird vocalisations: guidelines for passive acoustic monitoring.

ABSTRACT: Passive acoustic monitoring has proven to have many advantages for monitoring efforts and research activities. However, there are considerations to be taken into account regarding the placement of autonomous sound recorders. Detection ranges differ among species and in response to variable conditions such as weather or the location of vocalising animals. It is thus important to the success of a research project to understand, with a certain degree of confidence, the distances at which birds might be detected. In two types of forests in Poland, we played back the vocalisations of 31 species of European forest birds exemplifying different singing characteristics. Based on recordings obtained along a 500-m transect, we estimated the probability of detection and maximum detection distance of e

SUBMITTER: Winiarska D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10776575 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature