Fowl Escapades

Southern African Bird Call Audio Identification Challenge
The data consists of mp3 files with unique IDs as file names, split into train and test sets and available as zip files in the downloads section. The labels for the training set are contained in train.csv, corresponding to one of the 40 species of bird listed below. Your task is to predict the labels for the test set, following the format in sample_submission.csv.
In cases where more than one species is calling (many recordings contain faint background noise) the labels correspond to the most prominent call, and your predictions should do likewise.
We are grateful to the many citizen scientists and researchers who shared the recordings which made this competition possible. The full list of authors can be found in authors.csv.
Files available for download
Train.csv - has the common name of the bird and corresponding unique mp3 ID for the training files.
Test.csv - has the unique mp3 IDs you will be testing your model on.
SampleSubmission.csv - is an example of what your submission file should look like. The order of the rows does not matter, but the names of the mp3 must be correct. Your submission should contain probabilities that the mp3 is of each species (with values between 0 and 1 inclusive).
Train.zip - mp3 files with unique IDs. Common names of the birds are in Train.csv. You will use these files to train your model. 1857 files.
Test.zip - mp3 files with unique IDs. You will use these files to test your model and predict the common name of the main bird in each recording. 911 files.
StarterNotebook.ipynb - This is a starter notebook. You can also find it at this link.
Visualizations of some of the bird sounds you will encounter in this challenge.
Some of these recordings are under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 license, meaning that you cannot sell or distribute modified copies of the calls. If you would like to share example calls, please download them directly from xeno-canto and give proper attribution to the author.
List of potential species:
Ring-necked Dove
Black Cuckoo
Red-chested Cuckoo
Fiery-necked Nightjar
Green Wood Hoopoe
Crested Barbet
Cape Batis
Olive Bushshrike
Orange-breasted Bushshrike
Bokmakierie
Black-backed Puffback
Southern Boubou
Black-headed Oriole
Fork-tailed Drongo
African Paradise Flycatcher
Sabota Lark
Eastern Clapper Lark
Rufous-naped Lark
Dark-capped Bulbul
Sombre Greenbul
Long-billed Crombec
African Reed Warbler
Rattling Cisticola
Levaillant’s Cisticola
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Karoo Prinia
Bar-throated Apalis
Green-backed Camaroptera
Chestnut-vented Warbler
Cape White-eye
Karoo Scrub Robin
White-browed Scrub Robin
Cape Robin-Chat
White-browed Robin-Chat
Chorister Robin-Chat
Southern Double-collared Sunbird
White-bellied Sunbird
African Pipit
African Rock Pipit
Cape Bunting