Abstract

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Highlights

  • Birds use several vocalisations in various behavioural contexts for different purposes such as to maintain communication with a respective social group, to warn about predators and to request parental care

  • The work presented in this paper aimed to find out a less computationally intensive detection technique, which can classify the flight calls

  • Even though the current work is behind classification accuracy, that result is reached by a smaller network that requires less computational power

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Summary

Introduction

Birds use several vocalisations in various behavioural contexts for different purposes such as to maintain communication with a respective social group, to warn about predators and to request parental care. Birds do long sustained flights with the help of wind during migration. The vocalisations made by migratory birds to keep contact with the flock are known as flight calls. Flight calls have specific characteristics such as frequency modulated, tonal and monosyllabic [1] sounds. Flight calls generally have 50 to 300 ms duration, and their frequencies range from 1 to 11 kHz [1]. Flight calls are different from songs and alarm calls because these are relatively simple vocalisations that present a pattern of rapid frequency sweeps

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