2026 CHALLENGE · TASK 6 · RESULTS AVAILABLE
Bird Counting
from Sound
How many birds are present when all you have is audio? BioDCASE 2026 Task 6 explored abundance estimation in noisy, multi-species zoo aviaries with known population counts.
DATAZoo aviary recordings
TASKPopulation estimation
STATUSResults published
THE TASK
Count birds from sound.
Participants estimated target-species population sizes from zoo aviary recordings with known bird counts. The audio contains overlapping calls, other species, and background noise.
The 2026 challenge has concluded. The dataset, baseline, and results remain available.