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When I started this project, I wasn’t sure about the sorts of information seabird acoustic data could reveal about their natural lives. It’s simply wonderful to hear all the sounds seabirds make when humans aren’t around. It makes me delve deep into their secret lives in the high seas.
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Hello and welcome to Seabird Soundscapes!
Seabird Soundscapes is about expanding our understanding about seabird life at sea by exploring their marine soundscapes. When seabirds move, feed, vocalise and interact with their surroundings they produce sounds that help us learn about the activities they engage with in their environments. Likewise, natural and manmade sounds create a diverse acoustic ambient that help build the context in which seabirds exist.
When we stop to listen to the sounds produced by seabirds and their environment, we can then learn about how individuals interact and react to other individuals and their surroundings. In this project we explore the acoustic world of seabirds during foraging, when animals are actively searching for food and often engage with fisheries.
The dataset utilised in this research project was collected from Northern Gannet individuals from the coast of Wales. Animals were carefully fitted with miniature sound recorders and GPS trackers just before they left for foraging trips. Upon their return, their tags were retrieved and data were downloaded for analysis.
Volunteer citizen-scientists can help analyse the collected data and unveil the seabird soundscapes by listening and visualising the 10-second sound extracts in the CLASSIFY page, then identify and classify each recording by choosing one or more options from the task tabs.
This research is part of Aline’s PhD research and the results of this project will help her gain a deeper understanding of at-sea seabird behaviour in the context of foraging, when birds can be vulnerable to incidental bycatch in commercial fisheries. She hopes her research will contribute to support seabird conservation measures when and where needed the most.