It is best to register and familiarise yourself with the app in advance so that recording in the morning is relaxed. Let the app show you the time of dawn and sunrise on site and set your alarm clock accordingly.
We recommend that you place your smartphone on a stable surface and start the automatic recording process. You have a few seconds to move away from your smartphone before the app records for one minute. Now please be very quiet. If you hold the device in your hand during the recording, it may cause unintentional noise. With “triple recording”, the app automatically makes three one-minute recordings, evenly distributed over a period of 30 minutes, without you having to enter the data repeatedly – or if you want to snooze for another round.
The new version of the app features automatic bird call recognition using ‘AI’ (artificial intelligence), for which Dawn Chorus uses the algorithm from BirdNET, an app from Chemnitz University of Technology and the Cornell Lab for Ornithology, which uses machine learning to recognise and classify bird calls and provides an innovative tool for nature conservation, biology and birdwatching.
We then ask you a few additional questions for science
You can upload a photo from your location to share your Dawn Chorus experience. Were you inspired by your early morning experience? Leave a poem, a story or simply a sentence about your experience. Use the app’s media art feature: “Sonic Feather – turning sound into art”
Read more about Sonic Feather.
Immediately after uploading, your recording can be found as part of the large bird choir on the global sound map, either on the map or in the tile view. You can share your contribution with your friends via Facebook, Instagram or directly via a link. In the app, you can also upload your recordings purely for the scientific study and hide them on the publicly visible sound map.
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Why do I have problems setting up my Dawn Chorus account? Does Dawn Chorus need access to my current location? And where can I find further instructions for use?
Take a look at our FAQ! Here you will find answers to all the questions that users frequently ask us.
The app, now with AI-supported bird call recognition, is available free of charge for iOS and Android (from Android version 8/iOS version 11 ):
Of course there is also the option to upload your recodings via the Website-Upload.
If you don’t have a smartphone, or if you have great recording equipment that you would like to use instead of your smartphone, you are welcome to upload the recordings via the website form. Please note, however, that we absolutely need unfiltered, uncompressed recordings in .wav format with a recording quality of at least 44.1 kHz and 16 bit. For technical reasons, the recordings cannot be too large. If you have any questions, please use the contact form.