A comprehensive collection of publicly available soundscape datasets strongly labeled for target bioacoustic events — for research and benchmarking in bioacoustic analysis.
Work in Progress
Note that there may be overlap between some of these datasets, for example BirdSet is a curated collection of PAM data including multiple other datasets in the list.
| Dataset Name | Source | Year Published | Summary | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BirdSet | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10380 | May 2025 | 6,800 recording hours from ~10,000 classes for training and more than 400 hours across eight evaluation datasets | Lukas Rauch, et al. |
| ECOSoundSet | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20776?utm_source=chatgpt.com | April 2025 | Mix of strong and weakly labeled recordings for 224 insect species | David Funosas, et al. |
| WABAD: A World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset for Passive Acoustic Monitoring | https://zenodo.org/records/14191524 | Nov. 2024 | 84 hours, 1,147 bird species, 27 countries, 13 biomes | Cristian Pérez-Granados, Esther Sebastián-González |
| Western Kenya | https://zenodo.org/records/10943500 | April 2024 | 32 hours, 176 species | Stefan Kahl, et al. |
| AnuraSet | https://zenodo.org/records/8342596 | June 2023 | 27 hours, 42 species (zenodo mentions ~78 hours for anuraset.zip?) | Juan Sebastián Cañas et al. |
| Southern Sierra Nevada | https://zenodo.org/records/7525805 | Jan. 2023 | 16.67 hours, 21 bird species | Mary Clapp, et al. |
| Colombia and Costa Rica | https://zenodo.org/records/7525349 | Jan. 2023 | 34 hours, 89 bird species | Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo, et al. |
| Island of Hawai'i | https://zenodo.org/records/7078499 | Sept. 2022 | 51 hours, 27 bird species | Amanda Navine, et al. |
| Southwestern Amazon Basin | https://zenodo.org/records/7079124 | Sept. 2022 | 21 hours, 132 bird species | W. Alexander Hopping, Stefan Kahl, Holger Klinck |
| Western United States | https://zenodo.org/records/7050014 | Sept. 2022 | 33 hours, 56 bird species | Stefan Kahl, et al. |
| Northeastern United States (Sapsucker Woods) | https://zenodo.org/records/7079380 | Aug. 2022 | 285 hours, 81 bird species | Stefan Kahl, Russel Charif, Holger Klinck |
| BirdVox-296h | https://zenodo.org/records/5856260 | Dec. 2021 | 296 hours | Andrew Farnsworth et al. |
| An annotated set of audio recordings of Eastern North American birds containing frequency, time, and species information | https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3329 | March 2021 | 6.4 hours, 48 species | Lauren M. Chronister et al. |
| LifeCLEF 2020 Bird - Monophone | https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/lifeclef-2020-bird-monophone | 2020 | 153 soundscapes from Peru, USA, and Germany | Stefan Kahl, et al. |
| NIPS4Bplus | https://peerj.com/articles/cs-223/ | Oct. 2019 | Veronica Morfi et al. | |
| BirdVox-full-night | https://zenodo.org/records/1205569 | Oct. 2017 | ~60 hours, ~25 species | Andrew Farnsworth et al. |
Test set labels and/or some data are hidden.
- BirdCLEF competitions 2021–2025
- Rainforest Connection Species Audio Detection Challenge
- Cornell Birdcall Identification Challenge
- Check details:
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00296
- https://zenodo.org/records/6512218
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574954125001311#s0010
- https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/lifeclef-2020-bird-monophone#resources
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.12300
- https://bioacoustic-ai.github.io/bioacoustics-datasets/
- https://bioacousticsdatasets.weebly.com/index.html#datasets
- https://zenodo.org/records/2667806
- https://huggingface.co/datasets/GrunCrow/BIRDeep_AudioAnnotations
- https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Bengalese_Finch_song_repository/4805749
- https://zenodo.org/records/1226427
- https://zenodo.org/records/10594016
- https://zenodo.org/records/11071202
- https://zenodo.org/records/8056090
Feel free to open a pull request or submit an issue. We're interested in publicly available, long-form recordings with reliable annotations for all calls of the target species set.