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):

###[Chemnitz University of Technology](https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/index.html.en)
**Maximilian Eibl and Stefan Kahl**

<img title = "GChemnitz University of Technology" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-media/competitions/BirdCLEF/KHS%20TUC%20farbig%20eng.png" 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">

###[K. Lisa Yang 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://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-media/competitions/BirdCLEF/Yang_Center.png" style="width: 300px">

###[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: 200px">

###[NATURAL STATE](https://www.naturalstate.org/)
**Jonathan Baillie**

<img title = "NATURAL STATE" src= "https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-media/competitions/BirdCLEF/NS_logo_white_lowres.png" style="width: 250px">

###[OekoFor GbR](https://oekofor.netlify.app/en/)
**Francis Cherutich, Alain Jacot, and Hendrik Reers**

<img title = "OekoFor GbR" src= "https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-media/competitions/BirdCLEF/oekofor_logo.png" style="width: 250px">

###[Xeno-canto](https://xeno-canto.org/)
**Willem-Pier Vellinga**

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

###Photo Credits and Personal Acknowledgments
- Ian Davies / Photo of Lilac-breasted Roller (Macaulay Library ML119166391)
- Ian Davies / Photo of Little Bee eater (Macaulay Library ML33600851)