Tuesday, 25 August (all day) and Wednesday 26 August (AM only)

Location: Corowa/Rutherglen (to be determined)

Fully catered

Registrations open soon

A possible second session will be held Wednesday 26 August (PM) and a further session may be held all day Thursday 27 August, depending on registrations.

Join Dr Karen Rowe and her Museums Victoria colleagues for a unique workshop that aims to teach you how to explore your own bird and frog audio recordings utilising the freely available acoustic analyses software called BirdNET https://birdnet.cornell.edu/resources

The use of remote sound recording devices in environmental monitoring has significantly expanded. This workshop aims to build the capacity of community and practitioners to detect
and rapidly analyse their own bird and frog calls.
The workshop will cover:

• Best practice field set up of Audiomoth (and similar devices)- what to consider about positioning, number of units per given area, audio interference etc.
• Acoustic data file management
• What is BirdNET (and associated FrogNET) and how does it work?
• Running BirdNET
• Validation of detections
• Assessing model performance
• Interpretation of results
• Most importantly, there will be opportunities after the initial training to explore and analyse your own acoustic data (frogs and birds). As such we will be asking participants to BYO data if they have it available.

This event is being jointly facilitated by the North East Catchment Management Authority (NECMA) and Corowa District Landcare (CDL). CDL is supported by the NSW Landcare Enabling Program (a collaboration between Local Land Services and Landcare NSW), funded by the NSW Government. NECMA are supported by the Landcare Support 2025-27 Program, funded by the Victorian Government.

Download the flyer here