The Global Bioacoustics Directory

Explore our curated database of over 150 essential resources for the bioacoustics community. Whether you are searching for open-source analysis software, international sound archives, or specialised academic journals, our directory connects you to the tools and networks driving the scientific study of biological sounds.

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Animal Behavior and Senses, Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute

Animal Behavior Lab, The Rockefeller University

Animal Communication Laboratory, University of Minnesota

Applied Bioacoustics

Auditory Perception, UC Berkeley

Beecher Lab, University of Washington

Bioacoustical Research, Powdermill Avian Research Center (PARC)

Bioacoustics and Behavioral Ecology Lab, Syracuse University

Biophysics of Communication, University of Western Ontario

Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing, University of Maryland

Center for Conservation Bioacoustics

Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies, Oregon State University

Cocroft Lab (evolution of insect communication), University of Missouri-Colombia

Dr. Dolittle Project (Automatic Classification of Animal Vocalisations)

Ecological Acoustics Research, Purdue University

Humpback Whale bioacoustics, University of Buffalo

JRJ Simulation & Design - Dolphin Bioacoustical Modeling

Lohe Bioacoustics Lab, Hawaii

Neurobiology of Birdsong, Pennsylvania University

Ocean Acoustics Lab, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Ocean Soundscape Team, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Old Bird, Inc. acoustic monitoring of avian night flight calls - USA

PinnipedLab, University of California Santa Cruz

Scripps Whale Acoustics Lab, University of California

Slobodchikoff Laboratory, Northern Arizona University

Taylor Lab, University of California Los Angeles

Scripps Whale Acoustics Lab, University of California

Elephant Voices

Acoustic Communications team, University Paris-Saclay

BARKS Lab, Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem

Animal Behavior and Senses, Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute

Behavioural Ecology Group, University of Copenhagen

Behavioural Ecology Research Group at Anglia Ruskin University

Bioacoustic Research at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Bioacoustic Research Group, Charles University

Bioacoustics and Behavioural Ecology group, University of Bristol

Biology Cluster of the Acoustics Research Institute (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Centre d'Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO)

Centro Interdisciplinare di Bioacustica e Ricerche Ambientali

Collective Ecology Group, University of Zurich

Department of Behavioural Ecology, Adam Mickiewicz University

Eco Acoustic Research (EAR)

ENES Lab (Equipe de Neuro-Ethologie Sensorielle), University of Saint-Etienne

Fish Bioacoustics Lab

Killer Whale Acoustic Behaviour, Far East Russia Orca Project

Laboratoire Ethologie Cognition Développement, University Paris Nanterre

Laboratory of Applied Bio-Acoustics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Ladich's Fish acoustics lab, University of Vienna

Mammal Vocal Communication & Cognition Research, Sussex University

Marine Bioacoustics Lab, Aarhus University

Research Group Communication and Social Behaviour, Max Plank

Slovene Museum of Natural History Ljubljana, Slovenia - Bioacoustics pages

Sound Communication and Behaviour Group, University of southern Denmark, Denmark

Volodin's bioacoustic group

Acoustics Research Laboratory National University of Singapore

Australian SuperSites BioAcoustics Portal

Avian Biodiversity and Bioacoustics Laboratory, Gurukul Kangri University

Bioacoustics, IISE

Elephant Voices

Avian Biodiversity and Bioacoustics Laboratory, Gurukul Kangri University

Laboratório de História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros (LaHNAB)

Laboratório de Ornitologia e Bioacústica (LOBio)

SAFE project (acoustically monitoring tropical forest)

Animal Sound Archive (Tierstimmenarchiv)

Australian National Wildlife Collection Sound Library

Biblioteca de sonidos de aves Mexicanas

Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics

British Library Sound Archive Wildlife Section

Coleccion de Sonidos Ambientales, Instituto de Investigacion en Recursos Naturales Alexander von Humboldt

Florida Museum Bioacoustic Archives

Fonoteca de Anfibios (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Fonoteca Neotropical Jacques Vielliard, Unicamp

Fonoteca Zoológica (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid)

Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Marine SoundLib

Sound Library of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (sonothèque)

The Acoustic Atlas (Montana State University, USA)

La sonothèque du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle

AVoCet (Avian vocalisations)

Bioacoustics Datasets

British Library Sounds: Environment & Nature

Ecosounds - Repository of Environmental Audio Recordings

Freshwater Sounds Archive

Macaulay Library (birds, amphibians, mammals)

Mangoverde - World Bird Sounds

MobySound.org Marine Animals

Naturesongs

Bird Songs And Calls With Spectrograms Of Southern Tuscany

Songs of European Singing Cicadas

Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database USA

xeno-canto (Birds Sounds of the World)

African Bioacoustics Community

Animal Behavior Society

Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour

Australian Wildlife Sound Recording Group

Club voor Natuurgeluiden Registratie Dutch Bioacoustical Association

International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE)

International Society for Neuroethology

International Society of Ecoacoustics (ISE)

Nature Sounds Society

Ocean Science Analytics (passive acoustic monitoring training)

Sociedade Brasileira de Bioacústica

Sonatura - Nature Recording Group

The Society for Bioacoustics (Japan)

Wildlife Sound Recording Society

Acta Ethologica

Acta Acustica

Advances in the Study of Behavior

Animal Behaviour

Animal Cognition

Applied Acoustics

Behavior Research Methods

Behavioral Ecology

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Behaviour

Bioacoustics

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Ethology

Ethology Ecology & Evolution

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Journal of Ecoacoustics

Journal of Ethology

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Bioacoustics-L

IBAC Mailing List

MARMAM - Marine Mammals

Nature Recordists

Amibio - Automatic acoustic Monitoring and Inventorying of BIOdiversity

Arbimon (open-source ecoacoustic analysis platform)

Avisoft Recording and Analysis Software and Hardware

BirdVox - Machine Listening for Detection and Classification of Migrating Birds' Calls

Dodotronic Parabolic and Ultrasonic Analog and Digital Microphones

Frontier Labs - BAR Bioacoustic Recorders

Instruments & Techniques for Bioacoustics Pavia University, Italy

Ishmael Bioacoustic Analysis Software

Laar Technology - Bioacoustic

List of Bioacoustics Software on Wikipedia

Metris-sonotrack For Recording, Analyzing And Playback Ultrasonic Vocalizations

Nauta Hydrophones

Online Rodent Ultrasonic Vocalisation Processing

PAMGUARD - Marine Mammal Acoustic Analysis And Localisation

Praat Software

Raven - Software For Signal Acquisition, Visualization, Measurement And Analysis

SeaWave - Sound Emission Analyzer Wave edition

Signal (Engineering Design) Bioacoustic Analysis

Sonobat Bat Call Analysis Software

Ultrasound Advice

Bioacoustics Stack Exchange

Discovery of Sound in the Sea

Voices in the Sea (Marine Mammals)

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