<p>The datasets from the Detection, Classification, and Density Estimation (DCLDE) Workshops contain what I consider the best annotated sets of marine mammal sounds, but they are large, and you'd likely have to spend quite a bit of time digging through to find exactly what you are looking for and then make those spectrograms for comparison yourself.</p>
<p>The answer on this related question has where to find them: <a href="https://bioacoustics.stackexchange.com/a/8/42">https://bioacoustics.stackexchange.com/a/8/42</a></p>

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2022-07-07T14:52:04.753Z
2022-07-07T14:52:04.753Z
selene
<p>While a comprehensive global database is lacking as mentioned by Jamie, there are a few good peer reviewed publications you can glean information from! <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40857-017-0101-z" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Christine Erbe's 2017 review of marine mammals</a> in Australian waters has some echolocation click information,  <a href="https://asa.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1121/1.4817832?casa_token=7D-80SC0HdEAAAAA%3AhSCH-kikc8PctYOclcAWUI1O8J1faRcboh03b9Y_E-USQgAborZGUWloC9s4YPnSHvbnKVyowGNo" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Simone Baumann-Pickering</a> has a great summary of beaked whale echolocation clicks, then you can always search by species and compile. Of course more summative resources would be so valuable and hopefully will be made available eventually!</p>

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2022-07-08T15:23:59.600Z
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LizFerg
<p>I'm looking at echolocation clicks of an odontocete species and want to compare the properties/characteristics of the clicks to other odontocete species. I'm aware of sound libraries such as <a href="https://dosits.org/" rel="noreferrer">DOSITS</a> but this mostly provides sound clips with spectrograms and a brief description. I'm mainly looking for things like click spectrums (on and off axis) and waveforms. I have found some in papers on detection and classification but these are usually limited to two co-occurring species or multiple species found in one region. Is there a review paper or website that hosts this information for a larger number of species?</p>

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Library of odontocete vocalisation properties/characteristics
# Library of odontocete vocalisation properties/characteristics

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

I'm looking at echolocation clicks of an odontocete species and want to compare the properties/characteristics of the clicks to other odontocete species. I'm aware of sound libraries such as [DOSITS](https://dosits.org/) but this mostly provides sound clips with spectrograms and a brief description. I'm mainly looking for things like click spectrums (on and off axis) and waveforms. I have found some in papers on detection and classification but these are usually limited to two co-occurring species or multiple species found in one region. Is there a review paper or website that hosts this information for a larger number of species?

**Tags:** echolocation, cetacean, sound-library


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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2022-07-07. Score: 3

The datasets from the Detection, Classification, and Density Estimation (DCLDE) Workshops contain what I consider the best annotated sets of marine mammal sounds, but they are large, and you'd likely have to spend quite a bit of time digging through to find exactly what you are looking for and then make those spectrograms for comparison yourself.

The answer on this related question has where to find them: <https://bioacoustics.stackexchange.com/a/8/42>


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### Answer by username_2 on 2022-07-08. Score: 2

While a comprehensive global database is lacking as mentioned by Jamie, there are a few good peer reviewed publications you can glean information from! [Christine Erbe's 2017 review of marine mammals](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40857-017-0101-z) in Australian waters has some echolocation click information, [Simone Baumann-Pickering](https://asa.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1121/1.4817832?casa_token=7D-80SC0HdEAAAAA%3AhSCH-kikc8PctYOclcAWUI1O8J1faRcboh03b9Y_E-USQgAborZGUWloC9s4YPnSHvbnKVyowGNo) has a great summary of beaked whale echolocation clicks, then you can always search by species and compile. Of course more summative resources would be so valuable and hopefully will be made available eventually!


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