recording is stopped and started. Each nightly session exports in
its own folder with its own KML file.
Using manual recording, the app automatically uses nightly
session mode for those recordings so as to avoid making a folder
for every recording.
The recording timer at the top of the screen starts at the
beginning of triggered recording session. Or at the beginning of
a manual recording. If a manual recording is made during a
triggered recording session, then after the manual recording is
over, the timer returns to the elapsed time for the triggered
session rather than restarting.
The top two bat’s scientific and common names appear in the
Auto-ID pop-up, which is shown for 10 seconds after
identification. This is not intended to ID two species of bats that
might appear simultaneously in a recording, though it might in
some circumstances. It is intended to give more information in
order to help you make the best ID possible and also to allow
you to see common confusions so you can learn the ID’s
limitations. You can also get a sense of the accuracy ID from the
pulse count. This shows the number of echolocation pulses that
match the top bat and the number of total pulses. More
matching pulses can indicate a stronger match. You can select the
runner-up species on the Auto-ID pop-up to immediately tag the
recording with that bat instead of the front-runner. Click on the “i"
icon to learn more about that species. If you know that both
species are incorrect, select “CHOOSE ID FROM LIST” to label the
recording with any other selected species of bat or enter your
own six letter species code. The Auto-ID pop-up also shows the
ratio of echolocation calls of the top bat to the total detected
calls. This helps give a sense of confidence in the identification.
You can also run ID on one or all recordings from the recording
list or while viewing spectrograms from the icon in the recording
label. Each recording takes a second or two to identify. If Real