Acoustic monitoring in nature travel destinations of Colombia

Diego Lizcano; Carlos Pedraza; Laura Romero; Marconi Campos-Cerqueira

doi:10.15472/kzo6hg

Acoustic monitoring in nature travel destinations of Colombia

Citation

Lizcano D, Pedraza C, Romero L, Campos-Cerqueira M (2022). Acoustic monitoring in nature travel destinations of Colombia. Version 1.2. Awake Travel. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15472/kzo6hg accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-21.

Description

Data from acoustic monitoring using 100 Audiomoth recorders installed by tourism operators in Cauca, Putumayo, Valle, Choco, Meta y Casanare states in Colombia. Each Audiomoth remained active for at least seven days in the second semester of 2021. The recordings were stored in Arbimon https://arbimon.rfcx.org/project/destinos-awake where the bird, mammal, frogs, and insect species were marked in the first 3 days, and used as templates to perform pattern matching in all the recordings.

This data is one result of the project: "Improving Sustainable Tourism - Phase 2: Boosting Conservation and Emissions Reductions Through Tourism and Technology”, a program funded by UK PACT (Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions) from the Department's International Climate Financing (ICF) portfolio. UK Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). See more details in: https://monitoreo-acustico.netlify.app/

Purpose

We hope the data be useful to any other organization making biodiversity monitoring in tourism destinations.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

We installed 100 Audiomoth recorders in nature tourism destinations in Choco, Cauca, Valle, Putumayo, Meta, and Casanare.

Sampling

In each tourism destination, the host and a biodiversity specialist selected between one to five sites to install the recorders. Each recorder remained active for at least one week recording a minute every five minutes.

Quality Control

The data was verified by an expert listening the first three days in each location.

Method steps

The recordings were stored in Arbimon https://arbimon.rfcx.org/project/destinos-awake where the bird, mammal, frogs, and insect species were marked in the first 3 days, and used as templates to perform pattern matching in all the recordings.
All the species were identified using pattern matching in Arbimon, using good templates and exported from Arbimon to a table.

Additional info

Este conjunto de datos fue publicado con el apoyo del proyecto CESP “OpenPSD – Engage and promote the private sector in open biodiversity data publication (ID CESP2019-004)”, y la alianza con la Asociación Nacional de Empresarios de Colombia (ANDI) a través de su iniciativa “Biodiversidad y Desarrollo” (Datos abiertos sobre biodiversidad desde el sector empresarial). Agradecemos la colaboración y el incentivo para compartir datos desde el sector empresarial. This dataset was published with support of the CESP project “OpenPSD – Engage and promote the private sector in open biodiversity data publication (ID CESP2019-004)”, and the alliance with the National Business Association of Colombia (ANDI) through its initiative "Biodiversity and Development" (Biodiversity open data from the private sector). We are grateful with the colaboration and incentive to share data from the private sector.

Taxonomic Coverages

All the species were identified using pattern matching in Arbimon, using good templates. This resources have 8.644 records of birds, with a total of 18 species.

Aves
common name: aves rank: class
Accipitriformes
rank: order
Caprimulgiformes
rank: order
Coraciiformes
rank: order
Passeriformes
rank: order
Pelecaniformes
rank: order
Piciformes
rank: order
Tinamiformes
rank: order

Geographic Coverages

We used 100 Audiomoth recorders installed by tourism operators in Cauca, Putumayo, Valle, Choco, Meta y Casanare states in Colombia. The locations are detailed in Arbimon https://arbimon.rfcx.org/project/destinos-awake.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Diego Lizcano
originator
position: Lider Monitoreo
Awake Travel
Cajica
Cundinamarca
CO
email: dlizcano@awake.travel
homepage: https://monitoreo-acustico.netlify.app/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9648-0576

Carlos Pedraza
originator
position: Lider Conservacion
Awake
CO
email: cpedraza@awake.travel
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tswyAiYAAAAJ&hl

Laura Romero
originator
position: Lider de la Agencia de desarrollo
Awake
Bogotá, D.C.
Bogotá, D.C.
CO
email: lromero@awake.travel
homepage: https://awake.travel
userId: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=laura-romero-b203a8130

Marconi Campos-Cerqueira
originator
position: Chief scientist
Rainforest Connection
440 Cobia Drive, Suite 1902
Katy
Texas
US
email: marconi@rfcx.org
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6561-5864

Diego Lizcano
metadata author
position: Lider Monitoreo
Awake Travel
Cajica
Cundinamarca
CO
email: dlizcano@awake.travel
homepage: https://monitoreo-acustico.netlify.app/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9648-0576

Rainforest Connection
author
position: Entidad Internacional
Rainforest Connection
440 Cobia Drive, Suite 1902
Katy
Texas
US
Telephone: +1 (415) 792-9472
homepage: https://rfcx.org/

British Embassy Bogotá
author
position: Embajada
British Embassy Bogotá
Carrera 9, No 76-49, Piso 8
Bogotá, D.C.
Bogotá, D.C.
CO
Telephone: +57 601 326 8300
homepage: https://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/british-embassy-colombia.es-419

Diego Lizcano
administrative point of contact
position: Lider Monitoreo
Awake Travel
Cajica
Cundinamarca
CO
email: dlizcano@awake.travel
homepage: https://monitoreo-acustico.netlify.app/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9648-0576