Largest animal sound archive

The largest collection of natural animal sounds is held at the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, USA. It contains 279,106 (as of September 2017) recordings of more than 9,000 species held in an online searchable database. The sound library takes up 10 terabytes of memory storage, with a total running time of 7,513 hours. The collection, begun in 1929, holds recordings of around three-quarters of the world’s entire bird species, whale songs, insects, bears, elephants, primates and nearly every other animal on Earth. It is still expanding as new recordings are added by researchers.

This repository is being enhanced every day, and currently contains 4,607,596 files of photos, sounds and videos of the planets natural wildlife.

The library can be accessed at: https://www.macaulaylibrary.org/