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ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2026

Patterns of Vocal Activity of the Chinese Bamboo Partridge Using BirdNET Analyzer.

Jinjuan Mei, Lingna Li, Wenwen Zhang, Jie Shi, Shengjun Zhao, Fan Yong, Xiaomin Ge, Wenjun Tong, Xu Zhou, Peng Cui

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Jinjuan MeiState Environmental Protection Key Laboratory on Biodiversity and Biosafety, Research Center for Biodiversity Conservation and Biosafety, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China.
Lingna LiState Environmental Protection Key Laboratory on Biodiversity and Biosafety, Research Center for Biodiversity Conservation and Biosafety, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China.
Wenwen ZhangState Environmental Protection Key Laboratory on Biodiversity and Biosafety, Research Center for Biodiversity Conservation and Biosafety, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China.
Jie ShiState Environmental Protection Key Laboratory on Biodiversity and Biosafety, Research Center for Biodiversity Conservation and Biosafety, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China.
Shengjun ZhaoState Environmental Protection Key Laboratory on Biodiversity and Biosafety, Research Center for Biodiversity Conservation and Biosafety, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China.
Fan YongState Environmental Protection Key Laboratory on Biodiversity and Biosafety, Research Center for Biodiversity Conservation and Biosafety, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China.
Xiaomin GeState Environmental Protection Key Laboratory on Biodiversity and Biosafety, Research Center for Biodiversity Conservation and Biosafety, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China.
Wenjun TongState Environmental Protection Key Laboratory on Biodiversity and Biosafety, Research Center for Biodiversity Conservation and Biosafety, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China.
Xu ZhouState Environmental Protection Key Laboratory on Biodiversity and Biosafety, Research Center for Biodiversity Conservation and Biosafety, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China.
Peng CuiState Environmental Protection Key Laboratory on Biodiversity and Biosafety, Research Center for Biodiversity Conservation and Biosafety, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3112-9395

Funding

Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund GYZX240414Jiangsu Funding Program for Excellent Postdoctoral Talent 2024ZB729Nanjing Funding Program for Postdoctoral Research 2023
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Abstract

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is an automatic and non-invasive method for long-term monitoring of bird vocal activity. PAM generates a large amount of data, and the automatic recognition of data poses significant challenges. BirdNET is a free-to-use sound algorithm. We evaluated the effectiveness of BirdNET in identifying the vocalizations of Chinese Bamboo Partridge (a Chinese endemic species) and proposed a random forest (RF) method to improve the result based on the detection of BirdNET. The diurnal and seasonal patterns of calling activity were described based on the identification results. The results showed that the recall of BirdNET-Analyzer was 16.6%, the precision of BirdNET-Analyzer-XHS was 50.8%, and the recall and precision of the RF model were 75.2% and 74.4%, respectively. The diurnal vocal activity of the Chinese Bamboo Partridge showed a bimodal pattern, with peaks around sunrise and sunset and low vocal activity during the central hours of the day. The seasonal vocal activity displayed a unimodal pattern, with a peak in vocal activity during April and May. This study used the Chinese Bamboo Partridge as an example and proposes an improved RF model, built on BirdNET recognition results, for species identification, providing a practical approach for recognizing the vocalizations of regional species.

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BirdNETdiurnal and seasonal patternspassive acoustic monitoringrandom forestXiaohuangshan (XHS)

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