Here we go again: April 1 to May 31, 2025 is the main collection period!
Posted April 2025
The main collection period of the Citizen Science project ‘Dawn Chorus’ starts again on 1 April. Together the Naturkundemuseum Bayern/BIOTOPIA Lab and the Bavarian nature conservation organisation LBV (Landesbund für Vogel- und Naturschutz) are inviting people all over the world to pause for a moment to experience, record and share the dawn chorus of birds on their doorstep. For the first time this year, participants can also use automatic bird call recognition in the Dawn Chorus app.
This should make it easier to recognise bird calls and thus learn more about the species found in their own environment. The recordings collected in the project form a valuable, growing database for biodiversity research. At the same time, Dawn Chorus offers various opportunities to get creative and thus represents a unique symbiosis of art and science.
News 2024
Dawn Chorus Album by Alligator Gozaimasu
Posted 22 May 2024
In April 2024, we invited sound researchers and musicians from the ALLIGATOR GOZAIMASU collective to produce songs and soundscapes based on collected bird calls. The result is an album with six tracks, each of which uses a specific recording from the Dawn Chorus archive as the starting point for a musical journey.
Hike with Natura 2000 ambassador Dr Auguste von Bayern through the Isar-Hangleite
When and Where: On 21 May at 9.30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
On Tuesday, 21 May 2024 from 9.30 am to 1 pm, there will be an exclusive special guided tour of the new bypass water at the Braunau-Simbach power plant, followed by an excursion to Ering, continuity and habitat as well as Naturium.
Registration: ganz-meine-natur@anl.bayern.de
Dawn Chorus ‘City vs Country Challenge’
Our popular Dawn Chorus ‘City vs Country Challenge’ will take place again on Sunday 19 May 2024:
City pigeons or country bumpkins – who will deliver the most bird calls?
When and Where? Sunday 19 May sunrise, wherever you are!
In recent years, the city has usually been well ahead of the country in the May collection period – but on the day of the challenge, the country was sometimes ahead… Who will win this year? So, whether you’re waiting for the bus in the city, lying on a meadow by the lake or on holiday somewhere in the world: record the birdsong at Dawn Chorus as they offer you a spring-like morning concert.
Now New: Dawn Chorus Birdcall Quiz!
May 2024
Test your birdcall skills with our new quiz.
With the kind support of the Bavarian Sparkasse Foundation.
Chirping – buzzing – organs
A sound journey with birdsong
When and Where? Sunday, 12 May, from 12 – 5 p.m. in the BIOTOPIA Lab in the Munich Botanical Garden
The BIOTOPIA Lab becomes a sound studio. We get to know the phenomenon of the morning bird chorus. The citizen science and art project ‘Dawn Chorus’ invites people from all over the world to record the birds’ morning concert and share it online. We follow the melodies and rhythms from the Dawn Chorus archive, experiment with various natural materials and use them as sound sources. Small song sketches and soundscapes are created.
Day against Noise event
11 May 2024
Event for the Day against Noise on Saturday 11 May
When and Where: 11 May, from 11 am to 3 pm at the Rindermarkt in Munich
Come and meet the Dawn Chorus team on the Day Against Noise!
New Dawn Chorus competition for schools!
01 to 31 May 2024
Dawn Chorus is giving away great prizes to all participating school classes. It’s as simple as that: Only school classes in the period from 1 May 2024 to 31 May 2024 are eligible to participate. Take part in Dawn Chorus with your class and enter the name of the school and your class in the app under ‘Group membership’. (e.g.: 6b, Realschule XY, Munich) All classes that have uploaded at least one recording to the Dawn Chorus app or the browser version of dawn-chorus.org during the competition period will be entered into the prize draw.
Here we go again: 01 – 31 May 2024 is the main collection period!
01 to 31 May 2024
The main collection period of the Citizen Science project ‘Dawn Chorus’ starts again on 1 May. Together
the Naturkundemuseum Bayern/BIOTOPIA Lab and the Bavarian nature conservation organisation LBV (Landesbund für Vogel- und Naturschutz) are inviting people all over the world to pause for a moment to experience, record and share the dawn chorus of birds on their doorstep. For the first time this year, participants can also use automatic bird call recognition in the Dawn Chorus app.
This should make it easier to recognise bird calls and thus learn more about the species found in their own environment. The recordings collected in the project form a valuable, growing database for biodiversity research. At the same time, Dawn Chorus offers various opportunities to get creative and thus represents a unique symbiosis of art and science.
Newsletter May 2024
The moment has come: we step into the melodious month of May – and the main collection period for Dawn Chorus. So, get your smartphones ready, along with the Dawn Chorus App! Our App has been updated and now includes a new tool for you: an AI. This AI is neither pseudo-creative nor intrusive, but hopefully helpful as it provides species suggestions on recorded bird calls.
And in a few days, we’ll be celebrating our birthday, too! This year marks the fifth time we’ve been collecting bird calls globally. Unbelievable, isn’t it? And: it’s great to have you all onboard!
