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Bird Vocalisation Activity (BiVA) database: annotated soundscapes from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

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Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
18 September 2026
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Summary

Data comprise audio files captured using a Wildlife Acoustics SM3 Songmeter located on an overgrown unpaved road close to several abandoned houses with deciduous trees (including fruit trees in former gardens) in the abandoned village of Buryakovka in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine. A single continuous recording of twelve hours of audio from midday until midnight on the 25th June 2015 was manually annotated by an expert (using Raven Pro interactive sound analysis software). The dataset comprises the resultant five wave files (stereo .wav sampled at 48 kHz) and five annotation files (text files with the same name as the associated wave file). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/be5639e9-75e9-4aa3-afdd-65ba80352591

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
15 September 2026
Harvest GUID
be5639e9-75e9-4aa3-afdd-65ba80352591
Extent (Latitude)
51.399° to 51.229°
Extent (Longitude)
29.891° to 30.293°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2018-09-10
Access constraints
© University of Salford
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian); Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology (author)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng