The next major group to be covered on XC is the Frogs and Toads of the world. As a start, we publish a set of recordings from the late 1960s to the end of the 20th century by Marinus Hoogmoed, former curator of herpetology at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, covering over 100 species from South America. His collections and corresponding notebooks at Naturalis have recently been digitised, made possible by NLBIF funding. Among those collections were these nice recordings. In many recordings, Marinus made comments while recording (in Dutch). These can usually be found at the end of the recordings.
The frogs are here!
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A nice set of bat recordings from the Netherlands by a team of ecologists of Gaia Ecologie has pushed the bat branch over 2000 cuts. Thanks for sharing!
We've changed a few things: there is a separate counter for background IDs now, and in the forum you can filter on the various species groups. Hope this turns out to be useful.
Awesome! Thanks very much as always!
I guess the separate counter for background ids does not hold for soundscape recordings?
.... I think all background ID's count Frank, including those on soundscapes. In any case they should :-)
I have now checked my recordings – approximately 140 soundscapes versus 104 background species. Seems they do not count ..
Ah sorry, it's background IDs. Finally it hits home :))
hmm, well, you're really supposed to name 1 bacground species for each soundscape, so something does not add up :-) Do all your background species appear as links?
All but a handful of mammals do appear als links.
Right. We'll have a look.
I'm not sure what exactly the term Background IDs means: Is it the number of different species? In that case, 104 could be correct. Or is it the number of listed background species - individual species are each time counted whenever they are noted as background?
... the idea is the latter, but not sure it works out that way for soundscapes. Pretty sure it does for single species recordings, just check some of the astronomical figures some recordists have notched up.
... can you have another look Frank?
Looks perfect, thank you very much!
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... and coming on-site now: a set of around 1000 Orthoptera recordings by Dragan Chobanov from the Balkans and Mediterranean. Quite a few species new for XC there. Great stuff!
So cool!
52 species new for XC there. Brilliant.
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... just in: the 400th frog species! From the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, by Rodrigo dela Rosa. Very cool.
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