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ArticleEcology and evolution2026

An Automated Pipeline for Few-Shot Bird Call Classification, a Case Study With the Tooth-Billed Pigeon.

Abhishek Jana, Moeumu Uili, James Atherton, Mark O'Brien, Joe Wood, Leandra Brickson

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Abhishek JanaColossal Biosciences Dallas Texas USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8040-3330
Moeumu UiliDepartment of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Colorado State University Fort Collins Colorado USA.
James AthertonSamoa Conservation Society Samoa.
Mark O'BrienBirdLife International Cambridge UK.
Joe WoodToledo Zoo Toledo Ohio USA.
Leandra BricksonColossal Biosciences Dallas Texas USA.

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Abstract

This paper presents a largely automated one-shot bird call classification pipeline, incorporating targeted manual quality control steps, designed for rare species absent from large publicly available classifiers like BirdNET and Perch. While these models excel at detecting common birds with abundant training data, they lack options for species with only 1-3 known recordings, a critical limitation for conservationists monitoring the last remaining individuals of endangered birds. To address this, we leverage the embedding space of large bird classification networks and develop a classifier using cosine similarity, combined with filtering and denoising preprocessing techniques, to optimize detection with minimal training data. We evaluate various embedding spaces using clustering metrics and validate our approach in both a simulated scenario with Xeno-Canto recordings and a real-world test on the critically endangered tooth-billed pigeon (

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bird call detectionbird conservationdeep learningfew‐shot learningtooth‐billed pigeon

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PMID42781364
PMCPMC13598817

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