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South-eastern Australian bat call library
Maintained and edited by Alexander Herr and
Nicholas Klomp,
Johnstone Centre of Parks, Recreation and Heritage, Charles Sturt University.
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Introduction
Echolocation calls of bats can be used to distinguish between species. They are particularly useful in bat and
general fauna surveys. Several species can be identified by their calls, but not all species, and geographical variation
may exist within species (Richards 1993). The intention of this call library is to create a central source of reference
calls of south-eastern Australian bats for researchers and wildlife managers. It is hoped that other bat researchers will
contribute to this library with their own recordings. This call library will not provide the facilities or security of the
National Archive of Bat Ultrasound (Richards 1993), rather it is intended that it will be an exchange network of bat calls,
relying on individual researchers providing accessible data. The library and WWW page will also act as a catalyst for
discussion and exchange of ideas among bat researchers and other ecologists, using direct email links.
Contents of the directory
This directory currently contains bat calls, recorded while
releasing the animals in the dark, using ANABAT detectors.
Read the ASCII file content.txt
for information on the call files. It is a database describing the call file contents in comma
delimited format (CSV) with the following headers in the first line:
Filename name of the call file
Extension extension of the call file
Date date of recording
Latitude southern latitudinal coordinates of capture location
Longitude eastern longitudinal coordinates of capture location
Species species name
Spec Sex, age, and additional information of the species
Additional info Name of contributor and method of capture and
additional information
Maintenance of the library
The authors will maintain the call files and give other bat researchers the
opportunity to contribute their recordings to the library. Only
files meeting certain requirements will be put on the network.
History of the regional library
In attempting to obtain a greater understanding of the ecology of forest dwelling bats
in the western slopes of the Australian alps,
the authors have become aware of the importance of using the bats' ultrasonic
echolocation calls for species identification. However,
only a handful of reference calls from south-eastern Australian bat species
are currently available. After a season of intensive field work
in our current study, some of the bat species known to occur in the area still have not
been recorded, and their calls are not available regionally. The need
for a national archive of bat calls has also been emphasized by other researchers
(Kutt 1993, Richards 1993). Using the World Wide Web
facilities at Charles Sturt University the concept of a bat call library as an
exchange network has now been turned into reality.
How to access the library and retrieve reference calls
The network directory can be accessed via anonymous FTP
(File Transfer Protocol) or with a
WWW (World Wide Web) browser like Netscape or Mosaic. If you
don't know how to use FTP or WWW facilities on your computer,
you should talk to your computer system administrator.
Access via FTP:
- ftp to batcall.csu.edu.au
- login: ftp
- password: <your email address >
- cd pubfiles
- To download a specific call file
- bin
- get <the name of the call file >
- To download all call files
- bin
- mget *.bin
- To download the file listing the contents of the library
- ascii
- get content.txt
Access via WWW
html file:
URL: http://www.csu.edu.aubatcall1.html
WWW browsers do not accept # in a filename, because this
character is used by the URL for internal reference. The files in the
directory end with the extension bin.
Only files ending with a # will be recognized by the ANABAT program.
Therefore you have to rename the downloaded files. At the DOS prompt simply type in the directory containing the downloaded call files:
- <![CDATA[ren *.bin *.00#]]>
How to contribute to the library
Contributors agree to make their files available for public
access through the internet.
You can send your files via email as encoded in mime or in
uuencoded format to the
following email address:
aherr@csu.edu.au
Requirements for the contribution to the bat reference call library
Reference call files must have been created using the ANABAT2 or ANABAT5 program
and therefore stored in the ANABAT2 format. If you have an older version of ANABAT please convert the files with the program
filecon.exe. This DOS program converts ANABAT1 files into the newer ANABAT2
format within the same directory.
The newest version of ANABAT can be downloaded from this server.
The files must meet the following requirements:
Only captured and positively identified bats are recorded
- The text header of the files must contain the following:
Header field | Content | Necessary
----------------------------------------------------
Tape | Name of the tape | No
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Date | Date of recording | Yes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Loc | Latidude and longitude |
| of location where bat | Yes
| was captured |
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Species | Genus and species name | Yes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Spec | Age, Sex and additional | No
| specification |
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Note | Contributor and method | Yes
| of capture |
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Note1 | Additional information | No
| of capture location |
- Loc: The capture location must contain latitude and longitude coordinates as required by the Australian Bird and Bat Banding Scheme in your locode registration sheet.
Latitude-longitude information is stored in the Degree-Minute-Second format as follows:
Lat: DDMMSS Long: DDDMMSS
[Note that latitudes must be given for the southern hemisphere and longitudes for the eastern half of the globe only!]
- Spec: Scientific names must be used, and must follow Richards et al. (1993)
- Note: This additional information contains the name of the contributor and method
of capture of the bat
- Note1: Additional information , if any (eg. condition of bat, type of habitat, etc.)
The Quality of the calls should meet the following standards:
- - a minimum of background noises
- - a calibration tune of 40Khz. This allows the compensation for variations in tape speed and
avoids incorrect frequency calculation by the program
- File names must be in DOS format and have # as the last letter in the extension, eg:
12345678.12#
Example of a header file
Copyrights:
All files available in this library are for scientific use
only. The files are not to be sold or distributed for profit.
If you use the files for your research it is required that
you cite the source of the files in all subsequent publications,
in the following manner:
Herr, A. & Klomp, N. I. (eds) (1995): South-eastern Australian bat
call library
URL: http://www.csu.edu.aubatcall1.html
Disclaimer:
These files may not be commercially distributed, licensed, resold, or
otherwise transferred for any consideration, or reproduced for any such
commercial purposes. The files are provided to the user "as is".
Neither the authors nor Charles Sturt University give any
warranties, either expressed or implied, with respect to the files,
including but not limited to any warranty of merchantability, fitness
for a particular purpose, nor warranty against infringement.
Neither the authors nor Charles Sturt University shall be liable
for any claims or damages whatsoever, including property damage, personal
injury, intellectual property infringement, loss of profits, or interruption
of business, or for any special, consequential or incidental damages however
caused, whether from the use of these files or any files created with them.
Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank Lawrie Conole for his review of the
batcall homepage and Chris Corben, who made the ANABAT5 programs publicly available.
References
Kutt, A. (1993) Notes on recording reference sequences of bat echolocation calls and bat activity at different height levels. Australasian Bat Society Newsletter 2: 16-23.
Richards, G. (1993) NABU: A National Archive of Bat Ultrasound. Australasian Bat Society Newsletter 2: 2-3.
Richards, G., Hall, L., Hoye, G., Lumsden, L., Parnaby, H., Reardon, T., Strahan, R., Thomson, B., Tidemann, C. (1993) A revision of the inventory and English names of Australian bats. Australasian Bat Society Newsletter 2: 8-9.
Retrieve
files via list form
Content file:
URL: http://www.csu.edu.aufiles/content.txt
Your comments or suggestions are genuinely welcomed
to: aherr@csu.edu.au
Links to other Bat Call Libraries
Pacific North West Bat Call Library
New Mexico Bat Survey and Acoustic Library
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created Mai 1995 by Alexander Herr (email:
aherr@csu.edu.au) and Nicholas Klomp (
email: nklomp@csu.edu.au)*** Johnstone Centre,
Charles Sturt University ***