New Zealand Bellbird (Anthornis melanura) syllable database from Tiritiri Matangi Island, New Zealand

Database of syllables for New Zealand Bellbirds (Anthornis melanura) recorded on Tiritiri Matangi Island, Auckland, New Zealand. Recordings were taken from 2012 to 2015. Database extracted from bioacoustics software Koe (www.koe.io.ac.nz) on 09 October 2018. Each syllable from song selections have syllable types and syllable family types labelled. Recording season refers to the southern hemisphere breeding season and post-breeding season months of August to May for each consecutive season. Data used by the following study published on bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.29.462458

Column key:

id = unique identifier for every syllable

duration = syllable duration (seconds)

song_individual = Unique identifier for each individual bird recorded

sex = sex of the individual

start_time = start time of the syllable within song selection (seconds)

label_family = syllable family

end_time = end time of the syllable within song selection (seconds)

label = syllable type

song_track = name of song selection

song_date = Date song recorded (day-month-year)

Year = Year song recorded

Month = Month song recorded

Day = Day song recorded

rec-season = Recording season