register and participate in the xeno-canto community

Have you made sound recordings of birds? Perhaps they are already on your own homepage, or perhaps they are just collecting dust in an old box in the cellar. Consider registering on xeno-canto and contribute them to the database.

The more complete the coverage of xeno-canto, the more useful it becomes! For examples of how the recordings on xeno-canto get used check out this feature.

If you register you can:

Share your recordings

Organize and browse through all your bird songs recordings.

To share your own songs with the xeno-canto community, make sure that

• You are absolutely certain of the identification of the recorded species
• Your recording is in MP3 format, and the file size does not exceed 3Mb.

The copyright of your recordings remains yours.

You share your recordings under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 license.

Revise your recordings

Revise the data for your own recordings (or even delete them if you want).

contribute to discussions

xeno-canto is set up to make it easy to discuss sounds. Whenever you share your knowledge or opinion on a recording your contribution will be linked to that recording, and the recordist will be notified of it.

Write a feature article

we've made it possible to write blogs or features on the site using the sounds, sonograms and geographical data in xeno-canto. The wealth of recordings together with the simple tools provided make it possible to illustrate all kinds of issues on birds sounds.

Need help?

Do you have a large collection you would like to contribute, but you don't have the time to fill out all those forms? Drop us a line! We can speed up the process.

See the links for some suggestions on how to convert your tapes and minidiscs to mp3s, and what software to use to listen and analyze them.