St Helena storm petrel calls from Man and Horse (not annotated)
- 1. Environmental Management Division, Environmental and Natural Resources Directorate, St Helena Government, St Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean, STHL 1ZZ
- 2. RSPB Centre for Conservation Science department of Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Cambridge, UK
Description
This dataset contains 22 wav files with 2hr-recordings of background noise with some seabird calls from Man and Horse (St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean) from 28 June to 25 July 2012. Recordings were obtained with a custom-built autonomous sound recorder. Seabird species that are likely audible in those recordings are Madeiran Storm Petrel Hydrobates castro (note that this species is genetically isolated and may be described as an independent species in the future, see Taylor et al. 2019), but their calls will be infrequent and faint as the recorder was placed on top of a towering 500 m cliff exposed to strong winds, and storm petrels likely only fly much farther down around that cliff. Other calls could be from Common Myna, St Helena Plover, and insects. The purpose of the recording was to assess the utility of long-term acoustic abundance monitoring for seabirds on St Helena (similar to Oppel et al. 2014).
Files
Restricted
The record is publicly accessible, but files are restricted to users with access.
Request access
If you would like to request access to these files, please fill out the form below.
You need to satisfy these conditions in order for this request to be accepted:
Users are granted access to this dataset for the development of automated algorithm that can quantify the number of seabird calls in a given recording.
You are currently not logged in. Do you have an account? Log in here
Additional details
References
- Taylor, R. S., M. Bolton, A. Beard, T. Birt, P. Deane-Coe, A. F. Raine, J. González-Solís, S. C. Lougheed, and V. L. Friesen. 2019. Cryptic species and independent origins of allochronic populations within a seabird species complex (Hydrobates spp.). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution:106552.
- Oppel, S., S. Hervias, N. Oliveira, T. Pipa, C. Silva, P. Geraldes, M. Goh, E. Immler, and M. McKown. 2014. Estimating population size of a nocturnal burrow-nesting seabird using acoustic monitoring and habitat mapping. Nature Conservation 7:1-13.