Xeno-canto
Xeno-canto is a science project. It is a website where volunteers can upload sounds of animals. The name xeno-canto means "strange sound".
The website was started in 2005. In May 2015 Xeno-canto had collected some 243,000 recordings covering more than 9,300 bird species. By May 2025 the collection had grown to over a million recordings.
Xeno-canto is run by the Xeno-canto Foundation. It is supported and hosted by the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, a research center and museum of natural history located in Leiden, the Netherlands.
In November 2024, Xeno-canto added AvesEcho, an artificial intelligence algorithm. AvesEcho tries to identify European bird species from uploaded recordings.
By late 2024, the name Xeno-canto appeared in 5.000 scientific papers on Google Scholar.
References
- 1 2 https://xeno-canto.org/about/xeno-canto
- 1 2 "Xeno-canto: crowdsourcing the world's bird songs". The Guardian. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
- ↑ "The Xeno-canto collection and its relation to sound recognition and classification" (PDF). Retrieved 27 November 2025.
- ↑ "20 years of XC!". xeno-canto.org. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
- ↑ Vellinga, Willem-Pier; Planqué, Robert; Pieterse, Sander (2017). "www.xeno-canto.org: a decade on". p. 41.
- ↑ "Grootste platform voor diergeluiden nu met Naturalis-AI" [Largest platform for animal sounds now with Naturalis AI]. Naturalis Biodiversity Center (in Dutch). 2024-11-01. Retrieved 2025-11-27.
- ↑ "How volunteering took wing: xeno-canto and the power of open data | SURF.nl". www.surf.nl. 27 November 2024. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
