Frontier Labs

07/05/2025

Great seeing our recorders in action and bioacoustics playing a valuable role in western ground parrot conservation!

The fight to save the Western Ground Parrot from extinction must rely on multiple tools. ARUs (Automated Recording Units) are one of these tools as they can indicate where parrots are located and their status, thereby allowing scarce resources to be focused in the right places. The Friends were delighted to recently receive the final report from Specialised Zoological (Dr Kyle Armstrong) and (now) PhD student Joseph Jantke on development of a deep learning bioacoustic recognition system to help detect Kyloring calls from the ARU song files. It’s hoped that with further development, the system will help unlock the 80% of ARU recordings which remain unanalysed due to resource and time constraints. It will be very exciting to see what surprises these song files might contain about this extremely rare, cryptic and shy bird! Thanks to donations from members and supporters, the Friends were able to provide the $6,000 funding for the project.
(photo of Joseph Jantke & ARU courtesy of Allan Burbidge, DBCA)

12/01/2025

New Customer Story! 🦜🎙

Traditional methods for monitoring the , such as listening for calls or flushing birds, are disruptive, costly, and prone to error. Read about how ecologist Kieran Aland negates these issues using bioacoustics to monitor these birds on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.

Read about the advantages of bioacoustic monitoring and cost-effective analysis for the Eastern Ground Parrot with ecologist Kieran Aland.

08/01/2025

New customer story! 📣 🐦‍🦉

Using passive acoustic monitoring methods, Amera Natasha Mah uses Frontier Lab BARs to capture vocalisations of nocturnal birds in Malaysia’s rainforests providing key insights for ecological monitoring and of these species. Read more on our blog

Read how researcher Amera Natasha Mah used BARs to understand the vocal behaviour of nocturnal birds in Malaysia’s tropical rainforests.

08/01/2025

New customer story! 🗣📣
Read about research led by Professor Jörg Müller from the University of Würzburg on how can use animal calls to identify in tropical rainforests in Ecuador. Paper published in Nature.
(Photo: John Rogers)
Link: https://www.frontierlabs.com.au/post/ai-models-identify-biodiversity-from-animal-sounds-in-tropical-rainforests

22/12/2024

Merry Xmas and Happy New Years from the Frontier Labs team! Looking forward to another year listening to the world around us and supporting important research 🐦🐸🎧

09/12/2024

Come say hi to Kieran and Michael who are keen to chat about all things bioacoustics and ecology

06/12/2024

Only a few more sleeps... 🐸🦜🎙

01/12/2024

The Ecological Society of Australia conference in Melbourne is just around the corner. Come have a chat to Kieran and Michael, and check out our workshop on localisation! 🐦🌿

27/11/2024

Proud to be a sponsor for . Hope to see you there!
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21/11/2024

Good to see our Solar BARs hard at work with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy aiding in threatened species management.

A vulnerable burrowing mammal and a small nocturnal predator were among the exciting species recorded on a cattle station in Queensland.

20/11/2024

Excited to team up with Saffron Aid who are doing such incredible work in the Indo-Pacific Region both for the environment and local communities.
Check out their projects here: https://saffronaid.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqPITVOvKCVOows-V7z2VjM_IE7o6BVVDRCwttwBBZ5vfcT-hqI

20/11/2024

Only a few more sleeps until we hang out with our Kiwi neighbours at the New Zealand Ecological Society Conference! Proud to be a sponsor and exhibitor at the event. Hope to see you there!