BioAcoustica is a free, open repository of wildlife sound recordings from the Natural History Museum, London.
Taxonomic index of the BioAcoustica collection
Acoustic and biological measurements in the BioAcoustica collection
Recording annotations from ann-o-mate
The specimens that recordings are of, from the collections
Curtis, Nora J; Mackiewicz, Alayna G; Putland, Rosalyn L; Mensinger, Allen F (2020). Seasonal Changes in Male Oyster Toadfish’s Response to Boatwhistle Playbacks.
Opasanus tau, the Oyster Toadfish inhabits estuaries along the Atlantic coast. Males produce a short, harmonic mating call titled a 'boatwhistle' to attract females from late May to early August. A hydrophone was deployed under the dock at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole Massachusetts to passively monitor their mating behavior. An underwater speaker played boatwhistles at the toadfish at varied times throughout the day and season to determine the male response to hearing extraneous noise.
| Opsanus tau |
Where the specimens that recordings are of were collected, not where the sound was recorded