Species scope and coverage

Species scope and coverage

Each of the BTO Acoustic Pipeline ultrasonic classifiers covers European bats, small terrestrial mammals and bush-crickets and moths. This page details the full list of species covered by the classifiers.

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Do you have ultrasonic recordings of species that the Pipeline doesn’t currently cover?

Please get in touch at acoustic.pipeline@bto.org – we are always keen to extend our classifiers’ capabilities.

European bats

Pipistrelle Bat. Creative Nature

Multi-species ultrasonic classifiers for countries and regions of Europe.

We also provide a support guide for the identification of European bat species to accompany the Pipeline classifiers.

Geographic coverage: Britain and Europe

Species scope:

Barbastella

  • Barbastella barbastellus

Eptesicus

  • Eptesicus anatolicus
  • Eptesicus isabellinus
  • Eptesicus nilssonii
  • Eptesicus serotinus

Hypsugo

  • Hypsugo savii

Miniopterus

  • Miniopterus schreibersii

Myotis

  • Myotis alcathoe
  • Myotis bechsteinii
  • Myotis blythii
  • Myotis brandtii
  • Myotis capaccinii
  • Myotis crypticus
  • Myotis dasycneme
  • Myotis daubentonii
  • Myotis davidii
  • Myotis emarginatus
  • Myotis escalerai
  • Myotis hoveli
  • Myotis myotis
  • Myotis mystacinus
  • Myotis nattereri
  • Myotis nustrale
  • Myotis punicus

Nyctalus

  • Nyctalus azoreum
  • Nyctalus lasiopterus
  • Nyctalus leisleri
  • Nyctalus noctula

Pipistrellus

  • Pipistrellus hanaki
  • Pipistrellus kuhlii
  • Pipistrellus maderensis
  • Pipistrellus nathusii
  • Pipistrellus pipistrellus
  • Pipistrellus pygmaeus

Plecotus

  • Plecotus auritus
  • Plecotus austriacus
  • Plecotus gaisleri
  • Plecotus kolombatovici
  • Plecotus macrobullaris

Rhinolophus

  • Rhinolophus blasii
  • Rhinolophus euryale
  • Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
  • Rhinolophus hipposideros
  • Rhinolophus mehelyi

Tadarida

  • Tadarida teniotis

Vespertillio

  • Vespertilio murinus

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Small terrestrial mammals

Hazel Dormouse. Szymon Bartosz

Multi-species ultrasonic classifiers for countries and regions of Europe.

Geographic coverage: Britain and Europe

  • Please note that there are some gaps in species coverage for most countries outside the UK and Ireland.

Species scope:

Apodemus

  • Apodemus flavicollis
  • Apodemus sylvaticus

Arvicola

  • Arvicola amphibius

Crocidura

  • Crocidura leucodon
  • Crocidura russula
  • Crocidura sicula
  • Crocidura suaveolens

Dromys

  • Dromys nitedula

Micromys

  • Micromys minutus

Microtus

  • Microtus agrestis

Mus

  • Mus musculus

Muscardinus

  • Muscardinus avellanarius

Myodes

  • Myodes glareolus

Neomys

  • Neomys fodiens

Rattus

  • Rattus norvegicus
  • Rattus rattus

Sorex

  • Sorex araneus
  • Sorex coronatus
  • Sorex minutus

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Bush-crickets and moths

Roesel's Bush-cricket. Creative Nature

Multi-species ultrasonic classifiers for countries and regions of Europe.

Geographic coverage: Britain and Europe

  • Please note that there are some gaps in species coverage for most countries outside the UK and Ireland.

Species scope:

Barbistes

  • Barbitistes fischeri
  • Barbitistes serricauda

Bicolorana

  • Bicolorana bicolor

Conocephalus

  • Conocephalus dorsalis
  • Conocephalus fuscus

Deticus 

  • Decticus albifrons

Ephippiger

  • Ephippiger ephippiger

Leptophyes

  • Leptophyes punctatissima

Metrioptera

  • Metrioptera brachyptera

Phaneroptera 

  • Phaneroptera falcata

Pholidoptera

  • Pholidoptera griseoaptera

Platycleis

  • Platycleis albopunctata
  • Platycleis falx

Poecilimon

  • Poecilimon ukrainicus

Pseudoips

  • Pseudoips prasinana

Roeseliana

  • Roeseliana fedtschenkoi
  • Roeseliana roeselii

Rusposa

  • Ruspolia nitidula

Tessellana

  • Tessellana tessellata

Tettigonia

  • Tettigonia cantans
  • Tettigonia viridissima

Yponomeuta

  • Yponomeuta evonymella

Do you have ultrasonic recordings of species that the Pipeline doesn’t currently cover?

Please get in touch at acoustic.pipeline@bto.org – we are always keen to extend our classifiers’ capabilities.


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