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Automatic recording from a wood near Alice Holt Lodge Pond, Surrey, UK. Recorded with a DIY Raspberry Pi audio streamer designed by Luigi Marino. Before Feb 28th 2025, the recordings were done using MEMs microphones. Since Feb 28th 2025, the quality of the recordings has improved considerably because of changes in the equipment, including switching to Rode LavalierGO mics with Rode AI-Micro audio interface and software updates. This solar-powered system is typically stable, but it may go offline due to extreme weather factors. This recording is part of a natural soundscape dataset captured four times a day according to solar time (sunrise, solar noon, sunset, and at the midpoint between sunset and sunrise).
The main tree species is Corsican pine, planted as a crop in 1992, and there are also mixed broadleaf species such as oak, sweet chestnut, birch, and willow. The animal species include roe deer, muntjac deer, and various birds, including birds of prey like buzzard and tawny owl. Some of the birds in the area are common chiffchaff, coal tit, Eurasian wren, European robin, long-tailed tit, Eurasian blue tit, Eurasian treecreeper, and Eurasian siskin. You can also find a few bat species.
This dataset is funded by the AHRC Sensing the Forest project (AH/X011585/2). More info at: https://sensingtheforest.github.io