<p>The world of freshwater sounds is still very mysterious and not very well categorized, especially if the sounds in question are produced by insects, plants, or other non-fish sources. If the sounds in question are higher-frequency stridulations, chances are they are produced by aquatic insects. If you read some of the older papers on acoustic communication in freshwater insects, you can get some insight into what might be producing the sound in question, broadly speaking.</p>
<p>This is the classic text: <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-185X.1985.tb00714.x" rel="noreferrer">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-185X.1985.tb00714.x</a></p>
<p>Also anything by Antti Jansson. More recently, Camille Desjonqueres &amp; co. have some good papers describing different insect species' sounds.</p>
<p>Hope this helps. In truth there still is not a good public database for freshwater sounds.</p>

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2022-07-07T14:12:24.563Z
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Ben Gottesman
<p>You could check out <a href="https://fishsounds.net/index.js" rel="noreferrer">FishSounds.Net</a>, which has a whole library of audio recordings and/or spectrograms of different fish (freshwater and marine). You can filter by environment (e.g. selecting only freshwater). I know that there is other life within a pond that produces acoustic signals, but this could be a good place to start.</p>

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Chloe
<p>What resources are available to help identify common sounds from freshwater pond hydrophone recordings?  I can identify a number of distinct patterns which I imagine are probably characteristic of specific species (like bird song identification)?  I’d like to know what I’m listening to, and potentially then be able to compare species in various locations</p>

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2022-07-20T22:20:33.500Z
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ID guide for freshwater pond hydrophone sounds
# ID guide for freshwater pond hydrophone sounds

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-07-07)

What resources are available to help identify common sounds from freshwater pond hydrophone recordings? I can identify a number of distinct patterns which I imagine are probably characteristic of specific species (like bird song identification)? I’d like to know what I’m listening to, and potentially then be able to compare species in various locations

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### Answer by username_2 on 2022-07-07. Score: 7

The world of freshwater sounds is still very mysterious and not very well categorized, especially if the sounds in question are produced by insects, plants, or other non-fish sources. If the sounds in question are higher-frequency stridulations, chances are they are produced by aquatic insects. If you read some of the older papers on acoustic communication in freshwater insects, you can get some insight into what might be producing the sound in question, broadly speaking.

This is the classic text: <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-185X.1985.tb00714.x>

Also anything by Antti Jansson. More recently, Camille Desjonqueres & co. have some good papers describing different insect species' sounds.

Hope this helps. In truth there still is not a good public database for freshwater sounds.


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### Answer by username_3 on 2022-07-07. Score: 6

You could check out [FishSounds.Net](https://fishsounds.net/index.js), which has a whole library of audio recordings and/or spectrograms of different fish (freshwater and marine). You can filter by environment (e.g. selecting only freshwater). I know that there is other life within a pond that produces acoustic signals, but this could be a good place to start.


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