Biodiversity

Sonora

Record a minute of a place on your phone. It lands on a shared map with a spectrogram, and people work out together what is in it.

Status
In testing
Where
Anywhere with a phone
Built for
Researchers, birders, anyone curious
Try it
Open the app

The product

A dawn recording, drawn the way Sonora shows it.

How it works

01

Record where you are

Nature, animal, human or other. Traffic is as welcome as a bird.

02

Choose how precise to be

Exact, neighbourhood, or city.

03

Read the spectrogram

How you see a call you could not quite hear.

04

The community identifies it

Confirmed, unverified or disputed. Nothing quietly becomes a fact.

From a minute of sound to a record

A minute of sound Spectrogram Proposed unverified, and it says so Confirmed by people now it is a record

Where it stands

In testing

Recording, mapping, the feed and the community layer all work.

The cheapest sensor there is

The microphone you already own. Acoustic hardware is expensive; phones are not.

Want this where you are?

We would rather have it running somewhere useful than sitting in a demo.