Hey, that is a field that I am interested in (mostly inspired by a recent museum exhibition). Do you have recent papers on this topic, or labs/researchers to follow?

It's a really fun area to work in, but beware that it's very easy to underestimate the complexity. And also very easy to do things which look helpful but actually are not (eg, improving classification on xeno canto, but degrading performance on real soundscapes).

Here's some recent-ish work: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-49989-z

We also run a yearly kaggle competition on birdsong recognition, called birdclef. Should be launching this year's edition this week, in fact!

Here's this year's competition, which will be a dead link for now: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/birdclef-2024

And last year's: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/birdclef-2023