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The bat call library

Identification

Here we collected sources to help to identify bat calls.

Identification keys

  • Guide for Acoustic Identification of Florida bats
  • Indian Bat Call Library
  • A continental-scale tool for acoustic identification of European bats (Walters et al. 2012)
  • Acoustic Ecology of European Bats. Species Identificatoin, Study of their Habitats and Foraging Behaviour (Barataud 2015)
  • Acoustic identification of Mexican bats based on taxonomic and ecological constraints on call design (Zamora-Gutierrez et al. 2016)
  • British Bat Calls: A Guide to Species Identification (Russ 2012)
  • Identification Guide to Bat Echolocation Calls of Solomon Islands and Bougainville (Pennay and Lavery)
  • Key to the bat calls of south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales (Reinhold et al. 2001)
  • Social Calls of the Bats of Britain and Ireland (Middleton et al. 2014)
  • The Bats of Madagascar: A Field Guide with Descriptions of Echolocation Calls (Bennett et al. 2001)

Publications

  • Ahlén, I. & Baagöe, H.J. 1999. Use of ultrasound detectors for bat studies in Europe - experiences from field identifications, surveys and monitoring. Acta Chiropterologica, 1(2): 137-150.
  • Ahmim, M., Dalhoumi, R. & Măntoiu, D.S. 2020. First data on the acoustic characteristics of some Chiropteran species from northern Algeria. Bioacoustics, 29(5): 499-517. 10.1080/09524622.2019.1620634
  • Aide, T.M., Corrada-Bravo, C., Campos-Cerqueira, M., Milan, C., Vega, G. & Alvarez, R. 2013. Real-time bioacoustics monitoring and automated species identification. PeerJ, 1, e103. 10.7717/peerj.103
  • Aodha, O.M., Gibb, R., Barlow, K.E., Browning, E., Firman, M., Freeman, R., Harder, B., Kinsey, L., Mead, G.R., Newson, S.E., Pandourski, I., Parsons, S., Russ, J., Szodoray-Paradi, A., Szodoray-Paradi, F., Tilova, E., Girolami, M., Brostow, G. & Jones, K.E. 2018. Bat detective - Deep learning tools for bat acoustic signal detection. PLOS Computational Biology, 14, e1005995. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005995
  • Barataud, M. 2015. Acoustic Ecology of European Bats. Species Identificatoin, Study of their Habitats and Foraging Behaviour. Biotope, Méze; Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (Inventaires et biodiversité series), 352 pp.
  • Brigham, R. M., Kalko, E. K. V., Jones, G.Parsons, S. & Limpens, H. J. G. A. (eds.) 2004. Bat Echolocation Research: tools, techniques and analysis. Bat Conservation International. Austin, Texas, 171 pp.
  • Britzke, E.R., Duchamp, J.E., Murray, K.L., Swihart, R.K. & Robbins, L.W. 2011. Acoustic identification of bats in the eastern United States: A comparison of parametric and nonparametric methods. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 75(3): 660-667. 10.1002/jwmg.68
  • Chen, S.-F., Jones, G. & Rossiter, S.J. 2009. Determinants of echolocation call frequency variation in the Formosan lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus monoceros). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276(1674): 3901–3909. 10.1098/rspb.2009.1185
  • Clement, M.J., Murray, K.L., Solick, D.I. & Gruver, J.C. 2014. The effect of call libraries and acoustic filters on the identification of bat echolocation. Ecology and Evolution, 4 (17): 3482-3493. 10.1002/ece3.1201
  • Collen, A.L. 2012. The evolution of echolocation in bats: a comparative approach. Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London)
  • Deshpande, K. & Kelkar, N. 2015. Acoustic Identification of Otomops wroughtoni and other Free-Tailed Bat Species (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from India. Acta Chiropterologica, 17(2): 419-428. 10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.2.018
  • Dietz, C. & Kiefer, A. (eds.) 2016. Bats of Britain and Europe. – Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 400 pp.
  • Fenton, M.B. 1999. Describing the echolocation calls and behaviour of bats. Acta Chiropterologica, 1(2): 127-136.
  • Fenton, M.B. & Bell, G.P. 1981. Recognition of Species of Insectivorous Bats by Their Echolocation Calls. Journal of Mammalogy, 62(2): 233-243. 10.2307/1380701
  • Francis, C.M. & Habersetzer, J. 1998. Inter- and intraspecific variation in echolocation call frequency and morphology of horseshoe bats, Rhinolophus and Hipposideros. pp.169-179. In: Kunz, T.H., Racey, P.A. (eds.), Bat biology and conservation. Smithsonian Institution Press, 384 pp.
  • Fukui, D., Agetsuma, N. & Hill, D.A. 2004. Acoustic Identification of Eight Species of Bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera) Inhabiting Forests of Southern Hokkaido, Japan: Potential for Conservation Monitoring. Zoological Science, 21(9): 947–955. 10.2108/zsj.21.947
  • Gannon, W. L., O’Farrell, M. J., Corben, C. & Bedrick, E. J. 2004. Call Character Lexicon and Analysis of Field Recorded Bat Echolocation Calls. Pp. 478-486. In: Thomas, J.A., Moss, C.F. & Vater, M. (eds.), Echolocation in Bats and Dolphins. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA, 604 pp.
  • Guillén, A., Juste, B.J. & Ibánez, C. 2001. Variation in the frequency of the echolocation calls of Hipposideros ruber in the Gulf of Guinea: an exploration of the adaptive meaning of the constant frequency value in rhinolophoid CF bats. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 13(1): 70-80. 10.1046/j.1420-9101.2000.00155.x
  • Hackett, T.D., Holderied, M.W. & Korine, C. 2017. Echolocation call description of 15 species of Middle-Eastern desert dwelling insectivorous bats. Bioacoustics, 26(3): 217-235. 10.1080/09524622.2016.1247386
  • Hughes, A.C., Satasook, C., Bates, P.J.J., Soisook, P., Sritongchuay, T., Jones, G. & Bumrungsri, S. 2011. Using Echolocation Calls to Identify Thai Bat Species: Vespertilionidae, Emballonuridae, Nycteridae and Megadermatidae. Acta Chiropterologica, 13(2): 447–455. 10.3161/150811011X624938
  • Jennings, N., Parsons, S. & Pocock, M.J.O. 2008. Human vs. machine: identification of bat species from their echolocation calls by humans and by artificial neural networks. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 86(5): 371-377. 10.1139/Z08-009
  • Jiang, T., Liu, R., Metzner, W., You, Y., Li, S., Liu, S. & Feng, J. 2010. Geographical and individual variation in echolocation calls of the intermediate leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros larvatus. Ethology, 116(8): 691-703. 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01785.x
  • Jones, G., Vaughan, N. & Parsons, S. 2000. Acoustic identification of bats from directly sampled and time expanded recordings of vocalizations. Acta Chiropterologica, 2(2): 155-170.
  • MacDonald, K., Matsui, E., Stevens, R. & Fenton, M.B. 1994. Echolocation Calls and Field Identification of the Eastern Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus subflavus: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), Using Ultrasonic Bat Detectors. Journal of Mammalogy, 75(2): 462-465. 10.2307/1382568
  • Mifsud, C.M. & Vella, A. 2019. Acoustic characterization of bats from Malta: setting a baseline for monitoring and conservation of bat populations. Bioacoustics, 28(5): 427-442. 10.1080/09524622.2018.1474138
  • Monadjem, A., Shapiro, J.T., Mtsetfwa, F., Reside, A.E. & McCleery, R.A. 2017. Acoustic Call Library and Detection Distances for Bats of Swaziland. Acta Chiropterologica, 19(1): 175-187. 10.3161/15081109ACC2017.19.1.014
  • Obrist, M.K., Boesch, R. & Flückiger, P.F. 2004. Variability in echolocation call design of 26 Swiss bat species: consequences, limits and options for automated field identification with a synergetic pattern recognition approach. Mammalia, 68(4): 307-322. 10.1515/mamm.2004.030
  • Papadatou, E., Butlin, R.K. & Altringham, J.D. 2008. Identification of bat species in Greece from their echolocation calls. Acta Chiropterologica, 10(1): 127-143. 10.3161/150811008X331153
  • Parsons, S. 1998. The effect of recording situation on the echolocation calls of the New Zealand lesser short‐tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata Gray). New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 25(2): 147-156. 10.1080/03014223.1998.9518145
  • Parsons, S. & Jones, G. 2000. Acoustic identification of twelve species of echolocating bat by discriminant function analysis and artificial neural networks. Journal of Experimental Biology, 203(17): 2641-2656.
  • Pfalzer, G. & Kusch, J. 2003. Structure and variability of bat social calls: implications for specificity and individual recognition. Journal of Zoology, 261(1): 21-33. 10.1017/S0952836903003935
  • Pham, L.K., Tran, B.V., Le, Q.T., Nguyen, T.T. & Voigt, C.C. 2021. Description of Echolocation Call Parameters for Urban Bats in Vietnam as a Step Towards a More Integrated Acoustic Monitoring of Urban Wildlife in Southeast Asia. Diversity, 13(1): 18. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13010018
  • Phauk, S., Sarith, P. & Furey, N. 2013. Cambodian bat echolocation: a first description of assemblage call parameters and assessment of their utility for species identification. Cambodian Journal of Natural History, 2003(1): 16-26.
  • Russo, D. & Jones, G. 2002. Identification of twenty-two bat species (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Italy by analysis of time-expanded recordings of echolocation calls. Journal of Zoology, 258(1): 91-103. 10.1017/S0952836902001231
  • Russo, D. & Papadatou, E. 2014. Acoustic identification of free-flying Schreiber’s bat Miniopterus schreibersii by social calls. Hystrix, 25(2): 119-120. 10.4404/hystrix-25.2-10933
  • Russo, D. & Voigt, C.C. 2016. The use of automated identification of bat echolocation calls in acoustic monitoring: A cautionary note for a sound analysis. Ecological Indicators 66: 598-602. 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.02.036
  • Rydell, J., Arita, H.T., Santos, M. & Granados, J. 2002. Acoustic identification of insectivorous bats (order Chiroptera) of Yucatan, Mexico. Journal of Zoology, 257(1): 27-36. 10.1017/S0952836902000626
  • Stathopoulos, V., Zamora-Gutierrez, V., Jones, K.E. & Girolami, M. 2018. Bat echolocation call identification for biodiversity monitoring: a probabilistic approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society C, 67(1): 165-183. 10.1111/rssc.12217
  • Sun, K., Feng, J., Jin, L., Liu, Y. & Jiang, Y. 2008. Identification of sympatric bat species by the echolocation calls. Frontiers of Biology in China, 3(2): 227-231. 10.1007/s11515-008-0017-y
  • Taylor, P.J. 1999. Echolocation calls of twenty southern African bat species. South African Journal of Zoology, 34(3): 114-124. 10.1080/02541858.1999.11448496
  • Walters, C.L., Collen, A., Lucas, T., Mroz, K., Sayer, C.A. & Jones, K.E. 2013. Challenges of Using Bioacoustics to Globally Monitor Bats. In: Adams, R.A. & Pedersen, S.C. (eds.), Bat Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation. Springer New York, New York, NY, pp. 479–499. 10.1007/978-1-4614-7397-8_23
  • Walters, C.L., Freeman, R., Collen, A., Dietz, C., Brock Fenton, M., Jones, G., Obrist, M.K., Puechmaille, S.J., Sattler, T., Siemers, B.M., Parsons, S. & Jones, K.E. 2012. A continental-scale tool for acoustic identification of European bats. Journal of Applied Ecology, 49(5): 1064-1074. 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02182.x
  • Wordley, C.F.R., Foui, E.K., Mudappa, D., Sankaran, M. & Altringham, J.D. 2014. Acoustic Identification of Bats in the Southern Western Ghats, India. Acta Chiropterologica, 16(1): 213–222. doi.org/10.3161/150811014X683408
  • Wu, H., Jiang, T., Liu, S., Lu, G. & Feng, J. 2020. Acoustic identification of two morphologically similar bat species, Miniopterus magnater and Miniopterus fuliginosus (Chiroptera, Miniopteridae). Mammalia, 84(2): 201-206. 10.1515/mammalia-2018-0197
  • Zamora-Gutierrez, V., Lopez‐Gonzalez, C., MacSwiney Gonzalez, M.C., Fenton, B., Jones, G., Kalko, E.K.V., Puechmaille, S.J., Stathopoulos, V. & Jones, K.E. 2016. Acoustic identification of Mexican bats based on taxonomic and ecological constraints on call design. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7(9): 1082-1091. 10.1111/2041-210X.12556