Compiling these extensive datasets was a major undertaking, and we are very thankful to the many domain experts who helped to collect and manually annotate the data for this competition. Specifically, we would like to thank (institutions and individual contributors in alphabetic order):

###[K. Lisa Yang Center Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology](https://bioacoustics.cornell.edu)
**Stefan Kahl and Holger Klinck**

<img title = "K. Lisa Yang Center Center for Conservation Bioacoustics" src="https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F1095143%2F19ad76f0aa119750f14ac7dc07892967%2FCCB-Logo.png?generation=1590703184610515&alt=media" style="width: 250px">

###[Google Bioacoustics Group](https://research.google/)
**Julie Cattiau and Tom Denton**

<img title = "Google Research" src="https://research.google/static/images/share-9cd7266ef5001b20f98e01062c26189fa69ed6c784df04caf809668887fd339a.png" style="width: 250px">

###[LifeCLEF](https://www.imageclef.org/LifeCLEF2022)
**Alexis Joly and Henning Müller**

<img title = "LifeCLEF" src= "https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-media/competitions/Birdsong/Lifeclef.logo.jpg" style="width: 250px">

###[Xeno-canto](http://www.imageclef.org/system/files/LogoXenoCanto.png)
**Willem-Pier Vellinga**

<img title = "Xeno-Canto" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-media/competitions/Birdsong/xeno-canto.jpg" style="width: 250px">

### [Listening Observatory for Hawaiian Ecosystems (LOHE)](http://www.lohelab.org/) 
**Patrick Hart, Amanda Navine, Ann Tanimoto-Johnson**
<img title = "LOHE" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-media/competitions/Birdsong/LOHE%20Bioacoustics%20Lab%20Logo.jpg" style="width: 250px">


###[Bioacoustics at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo](https://hilo.hawaii.edu/)
<img title = "Bioacoustics at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-media/competitions/Birdsong/UH-Hilo-seal.jpg" style="width: 250px">

###Photo Credits and Personal Acknowledgements
- Ann-Tanimoto Johnson / Listening Observatory for Hawaiian Ecosystems (LOHE) Bioacoustics Lab at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo - Cover photo, description photo,  species profiles 
- Alexander Wang / [@alcidilex](www.instagram.com/birds_hawaii_pastpresent) - Species profiles
- Bret Mossman / [@birds_hawaii_pastpresent](www.instagram.com/birds_hawaii_pastpresent) - Species profiles