Species scope and coverage

Log in to the Acoustic Pipeline

Each of the BTO Acoustic Pipeline ultrasonic classifiers covers European bats, small terrestrial mammals and bush-crickets and moths. This page details the full list of species covered by the classifiers. 

European bats

Multi-species ultrasonic classifiers for countries and regions of Europe.

We also provide a support guide for the identification of European bat species to accompany the Pipeline classifiers.

Geographic coverage

Britain and Europe


Species scope

Barbastella

Barbastella barbastellus

Eptesicus

Eptesicus anatolicus
Eptesicus isabellinus
Eptesicus nilssonii
Eptesicus serotinus

Hypsugo

Hypsugo savii

Miniopterus

Miniopterus schreibersii

Myotis

Myotis alcathoe
Myotis bechsteinii
Myotis blythii
Myotis brandtii
Myotis capaccinii
Myotis crypticus
Myotis dasycneme
Myotis daubentonii
Myotis davidii
Myotis emarginatus
Myotis escalerai
Myotis hoveli
Myotis myotis
Myotis mystacinus
Myotis nattereri
Myotis nustrale
Myotis punicus

Nyctalus

Nyctalus azoreum
Nyctalus lasiopterus
Nyctalus leisleri
Nyctalus noctula

Pipistrellus

Pipistrellus hanaki
Pipistrellus kuhlii
Pipistrellus maderensis
Pipistrellus nathusii
Pipistrellus pipistrellus
Pipistrellus pygmaeus

Plecotus

Plecotus auritus
Plecotus austriacus
Plecotus gaisleri
Plecotus kolombatovici
Plecotus macrobullaris

Rhinolophus

Rhinolophus blasii
Rhinolophus euryale
Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
Rhinolophus hipposideros
Rhinolophus mehelyi

Tadarida

Tadarida teniotis

Vespertillio

Vespertilio murinus

Back to top >

Small terrestrial mammals

Multi-species ultrasonic classifiers for countries and regions of Europe.

Geographic coverage

Britain and Europe

  • Please note that there are some gaps in species coverage for most countries outside the UK and Ireland.

Species scope

Apodemus

Apodemus flavicollis
Apodemus sylvaticus

Arvicola

Arvicola amphibius

Crocidura

Crocidura leucodon
Crocidura russula
Crocidura sicula
Crocidura suaveolens

Dromys

Dromys nitedula

Micromys

Micromys minutus

Microtus

Microtus agrestis

Mus

Mus musculus

Muscardinus

Muscardinus avellanarius

Myodes

Myodes glareolus

Neomys

Neomys fodiens

Rattus

Rattus norvegicus
Rattus rattus

Sorex 

Sorex araneus
Sorex coronatus
Sorex minutus

Back to top >

Bush-crickets and moths

Multi-species ultrasonic classifiers for countries and regions of Europe.

Geographic coverage

Britain and Europe

  • Please note that there are some gaps in species coverage for most countries outside the UK and Ireland.

Species scope

Barbistes

Barbitistes fischeri
Barbitistes serricauda

Bicolorana

Bicolorana bicolor

Conocephalus

Conocephalus dorsalis
Conocephalus fuscus

Deticus 

Decticus albifrons

Ephippiger

Ephippiger ephippiger

Leptophyes

Leptophyes punctatissima

Metrioptera

Metrioptera brachyptera

Phaneroptera 

Phaneroptera falcata

Pholidoptera

Pholidoptera griseoaptera

Platycleis

Platycleis albopunctata
Platycleis falx

Poecilimon

Poecilimon ukrainicus

Pseudoips

Pseudoips prasinana

Roeseliana

Roeseliana fedtschenkoi
Roeseliana roeselii

Rusposa

Ruspolia nitidula

Tessellana

Tessellana tessellata

Tettigonia

Tettigonia cantans
Tettigonia viridissima

Yponomeuta

Yponomeuta evonymella

Back to top >

Do you have ultrasonic recordings of species that the Pipeline doesn’t currently cover?

Please get in touch at acoustic.pipeline [at] bto.org – we are always keen to extend our classifiers’ capabilities.

Get in touch

Email us

Questions? We’d love to hear from you.

You can reach us at
acoustic.pipeline [at] bto.org

The scientists behind the Pipeline

Meet our in-house experts.



Related content