What this site is — and isn't.

Editorial, not consensus

CrowLingo is an editorial / educational publication. We synthesize primary research, working preprints, and practitioner experience into accessible explainers. We are not a peer-reviewed journal, a scientific consensus body, or a regulatory authority. When we summarize a finding, we are describing one study (or a small cluster), not the entire field's position.

The field moves; we may be wrong

Bioacoustic AI in 2026 is moving fast — model architectures shift in months, datasets in quarters, behavioral interpretations in years. Anything you read on this site may be revised or contradicted by new evidence within months of publication. We update pages when new evidence shifts the line; the date on the page header is the last meaningful edit.

Distinguish demonstrated, emerging, science-fiction

We separate these explicitly on the site — see current vs aspirational. If a claim about crow communication isn't in the "Demonstrated" bucket, treat it with proportional skepticism.

Ethical guardrails are the floor, not legal advice

The six rules for listening back are the project-wide ethical floor. They are not legal advice. If you are running a research program subject to IACUC, IRB, or equivalent oversight, those frameworks govern your protocol — not this page. Our rules are designed to be a strict subset of any responsible animal-welfare regime, not a substitute for one.

We are not a commercial translator product

CrowLingo does not sell, license, or build a product that claims to translate crow vocalizations into human language. Several apps on the market do make such claims; we believe they overstate the science. We do not endorse, link, or partner with them.

Affiliations

CrowLingo is an independent project published by Kymata Labs. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by: Earth Species Project, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Project CETI, NatureLM-audio authors, or any other research group cited on the site. We credit them on the Library page; we don't speak for them.

Audio and infographics

Crow recordings hosted here (when they are hosted) are CC-BY-licensed unless otherwise noted, with city-level location coarsening. Infographics are generated from prompts (see /ai) and intended for educational use. We do not warrant scientific precision of illustrative diagrams — for the precise empirical version, consult the primary source linked on the relevant page.

External links

Links to external sites (papers, repos, organizations) are provided for reader convenience. We do not control the content of external sites and are not responsible for their accuracy, ethics, or licensing terms.

Contact for corrections

If you spot a factual error, a misattribution, an outdated claim, or a misleading framing, please email contact@kymatalabs.com with the page URL and the specific issue. Errata are prioritized and posted on the affected page within seven days.