Acoustic ID Quiz NE US & Eastern Canada

Available late March 2023. To apply for a certification, we suggest that students have attended past BatSS trainings or have extensive in-field experience with collecting and analyzing bat calls. All in-person and online BatSS courses and workshops, as well as the in-person SonoBat Workshop by BCM include bat call ID instruction.

Students are assigned 50 sample WAV files that contain recordings collected from the region that exhibit archetypical qualitative and quantitative echolocation call characteristics for confident species identification. Students provide results of their analyses, in spreadsheet form, with their Manual ID answers and a brief explanation for their decisions for each WAV file in the collection. 

Results are submitted to Bat Survey Solutions. Upon receiving an 80% passing grade, a “certificate of completion” detailing the regional content will be issued. If in conjunction with a BatSS or BCM course, contact hours will be included. Keep skills sharp and impress colleagues and clients by completing additional volumes annually as continuing education.

In addition to regional bat calls, collections include non-bat noise such as insects, birds, and mechanical noise that can sometimes shares data space with some bat species.

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