Acoustic Monitoring Network

The Acoustic Monitoring Network is a cross-border effort to listen to bird communities across the Central Flyway, connecting sites in northern and eastern Mexico with key regions of Texas. Using passive acoustic recorders and open, reproducible workflows, we document daily and seasonal patterns of bird occurrence—especially nocturnal migration—across deserts, grasslands, coastal plains, and urban corridors.

Dr. Rafael Rueda-Hernández

Selected publications:

• Bobowski, T. J., Bossu, C., Rueda-Hernández, R., Schweizer, T., Tello-Lopez, I., Smith, T. B., … & Ruegg, K. (2025). Factors underlying migratory timing of a seasonally migrating bird. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 8527.
• Pyle, P., Rueda-Hernández, R., Albornoz, M., Gigena César, V., & Guallar. S. (2024). Guía de Identificación de las Aves de América del Norte. Ecoval Ediciones.
• Martínez-Ruiz, M., & Rueda-Hernández, R. (2024). Avian functional diversity across the neotropics: current knowledge and perspectives. Ornithology Research, 32(1), 61-69.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=es&user=48tkBiIAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Dr. Benjamin Van Doren

University of Urbana-Champaign

https://www.migrationbiology.org/

Dra. Marisela Martínez Ruiz

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CGqMHuwAAAAJ&hl=es