Published October 8, 2025 | Version v3
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WABAD: A World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset for Passive Acoustic Monitoring

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon University of Alicante
  • 2. ROR icon Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia

Description

Under the current global biodiversity crisis, there is a need for automated and non-invasive monitoring techniques that can gather large amounts of data cost-effectively at various ecological scales, from local to large spatial scales. This data can then be analyzed to inform stakeholders and decision makers. One such technique is passive acoustic monitoring, which is commonly coupled with automatic identification of animal species based on their sound. Automated sound analyses usually require the training of sound detection and identification algorithms. These algorithms are based on annotated acoustic datasets which mark the occurrence of sounds of species inside sound recordings. However, compiling large annotated acoustic datasets is time-consuming and requires experts, and therefore they normally cover reduced spatial, temporal and taxonomic scales. This data paper presents WABAD, the World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset for passive acoustic monitoring. WABAD is designed to provide the public, the research community, and conservation managers with a novel and globally representative annotated acoustic dataset. This database includes 5,047 minutes of audio files annotated to species-level by local experts with the start and end time, and the upper and lower frequencies of each identified bird vocalisation in the recordings. The database has a wide taxonomic and spatial coverage, including information on 91,931 vocalisations from 1,192 bird species recorded at 72 recording sites in 29 recording locations (mainly countries) and distributed across 13 biomes. WABAD can be used, for example, for developing and/or validating automatic species detection algorithms, answering ecological questions, such as assessing geographical variations on bird vocalisations, or comparing acoustic diversity indices with species-based diversity indices. The dataset is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International copyright.

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