Yukon Boreal Bird Acoustic Monitoring Records 2017-2023

Yukon's 16 ecoregions contain bird monitoring data from autonomous recording units deployed between 2017 and 2023. The program, led by Environment and Climate Change Canada's Canadian Wildlife Service, provides baseline species distribution and abundance data for boreal landbirds, secretive waterbirds, and shorebirds.

Use Cases

• Analyze species distribution patterns across 16 Yukon ecoregions using identified bird songs and calls.
• Model temporal activity from recordings segmented into evening/nighttime (10 PM-3 AM) and dawn-chorus (3 AM-9 AM) periods.
• Compare transcription methods between the 'Yukon All Bird Database' and the WildTrax platform for data consistency.
• Study the effects of recording subset constraints, such as the standard 3-minute transcription window versus incidental 3-5 minute observations.

Strengths

• Data collection spans 7 years (2017-2023), providing a multi-year temporal series.
• Spatial coverage includes 16 distinct Yukon ecoregions for broad geographic representation.
• Methodology follows a standardized national framework (BOSS) for boreal landbird monitoring.

Limitations

• Avian monitoring is described as limited both spatially and temporally within Canada's boreal regions.
• Transcription platforms and methods changed between collection years (2017-2018 vs. later years), potentially introducing inconsistency.
• A subset of recordings was randomly selected for transcription, not the full dataset.

Provenance

Source

Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service.

Collection Method

Passive acoustic monitoring using autonomous recording units (ARUs) set to record ambient sounds for 5 minutes every 15 minutes.

Time Range

2017 to 2023.

Freshness

Data updated to March 2026.

Geography

16 boreal ecoregions in Yukon, Canada.