Macaulay Library Audio and Video Collection
Citation
Scholes III, Ph.D. E (2015). Macaulay Library Audio and Video Collection. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ckcdpy accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-10-13.Description
The Macaulay Library is the world's largest and oldest scientific archive of biodiversity audio and video recordings. Our mission is to collect and preserve recordings of each species' behavior and natural history, to facilitate the ability of others to collect and preserve such recordings, and to actively promote the use of these recordings for diverse purposes spanning scientific research, education, conservation, and the arts.Taxonomic Coverages
The archive includes more than 175,000 audio recordings covering 75 percent of the world's bird species, with an ever increasing numbers of insect, fish, frog, and mammal recordings as well. The more recently established video archive includes over 50,000 clips, representing over 3,500 species.
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Geographic Coverages
The Macaulay Library regularly undertakes recording expeditions to increase the breadth and depth of vocalizations and behaviors in the archive. In recent years we have targeted regions with a high diversity of species that are not yet well covered. See our Big Year Expeditions website (http://www.birds.cornell.edu/bigyear) detailing our efforts in 2007 to record North American birds in Alaska, Florida, Nova Scotia, and Texas. Between 2008-2010, expeditions visited the Canadian Arctic, Guatemala, South Carolina, Texas, western Mexico, the Great Basin and the Louisiana Gulf coast.
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Edwin Scholes III, Ph.D.originator
position: Curator of Video
Macaulay Library
Cornell Lab of Ornithology - 159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca
14850
NY
US
Telephone: +1 607-254-1115
email: edwin.scholes@cornell.edu
homepage: http://macaulaylibrary.org/
Edwin Scholes III, Ph.D.
metadata author
position: Curator of Video
Macaulay Library
Cornell Lab of Ornithology - 159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca
14850
NY
US
Telephone: +1 607-254-1115
email: edwin.scholes@cornell.edu
homepage: http://macaulaylibrary.org/
David Bloom
programmer
position: VertNet Programmer
VertNet
Telephone: +01 785 813-1496
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org
David Bloom
programmer
position: VertNet Coordinator
VertNet
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org
John Wieczorek
programmer
position: Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
email: tuco@berkeley.edu
Brian Maltzan
programmer
position: Lead Software Engineer
Macaulay Library at Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca
14850
NY
US
Telephone: +1 607-254-2129
email: brian.maltzan@gmail.com
homepage: http://macaulaylibrary.org/
Mike Webster, Ph.D.
principal investigator
position: Director and Robert G. Engel Associate Professor of Ornithology
Macaulay Library at Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca
14850
NY
US
Telephone: +1 607-254-2493
email: msw244@cornell.edu
homepage: http://macaulaylibrary.org/
Greg Budney
administrative point of contact
position: Curator of Audio
Macaulay Library
Cornell Lab of Ornithology - 159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca
14850
NY
US
Telephone: +1 607-254-2406
email: gfb3@cornell.edu
homepage: http://macaulaylibrary.org/