Foundational corvid behavior · book
In the Company of Crows and Ravens
Marzluff, J.M. & Angell, T. · 2005 · Yale University Press
The accessible long-form companion to a lifetime of corvid fieldwork.
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Foundational corvid behavior
5 entriesFoundational corvid behavior · book
Mind of the Raven
Heinrich, B. · 1999 · HarperCollins
Sister species, same lineage of insight; required reading.
Foundational corvid behavior · paper
Acoustic profiling in a complexly social species, the American crow ↗
Mates, E.A., Tarter, R.R., Ha, J.C., Clark, A.B., McGowan, K.J. · 2014 · Bioacoustics
Caws encode caller sex, identity, and behavioral context — the pre-ALP baseline.
Foundational corvid behavior · monograph
American Crow — Sounds and Vocal Behavior ↗
Verbeek, N.A., Caffrey, C., Clark, A.B., McGowan, K.J., Pyle, P. · 2024 · Birds of the World, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
The current definitive species account, with audio examples.
Foundational corvid behavior · paper
Repertoire-wide contextual mapping reveals signal functions in cooperatively breeding crows ↗
Demartsev, V. et al. · 2026 · bioRxiv (preprint)
Wearable loggers + ML reveal continuous repertoire structure in carrion crows.
Bioacoustic methods
3 entriesBioacoustic methods · review
Computational bioacoustics with deep learning: a review and roadmap
Stowell, D. · 2022 · PeerJ
The map of the field as of the deep-learning turn.
Bioacoustic methods · book
Principles of Animal Communication
Bradbury, J.W. & Vehrencamp, S.L. · 1998 · Sinauer Associates
The framework underneath everything.
Bioacoustic methods · paper
BirdNET: A deep learning solution for avian diversity monitoring
Kahl, S. et al. · 2021 · Ecological Informatics
The workhorse bird detector; ubiquitous for a reason.
SSL & foundation models
2 entriesSSL & foundation models · paper
NatureLM-audio: An Audio-Language Foundation Model for Bioacoustics ↗
Robinson, D., Miron, M., Hagiwara, M., Pietquin, O. et al. · 2025 · ICLR 2025
First audio-language foundation model designed for bioacoustics. SOTA on BEANS-Zero.
SSL & foundation models · benchmark
BEANS: The Benchmark of Animal Sounds
Hagiwara, M. et al. · 2023 · Earth Species Project
The benchmark NatureLM-audio is evaluated against.
Animal-language AI ethics
2 entriesAnimal-language AI ethics · blog
Introducing NatureLM-audio (blog) ↗
Earth Species Project · 2024 · earthspecies.org
The project's own framing of intent and scope.
Animal-language AI ethics · paper
Cetacean Translation Initiative: A roadmap to deciphering the communication of sperm whales
Andreas, J. et al. · 2022 · iScience
The CETI program; lessons for any ALP project, including the dangers of over-promising.