What lives in a working vineyard? Fourteen cameras and twelve microphones listened for a year, May 2025 – July 2026. Every camera identification checked by experts.
14 wild mammals the public record did not have here: wildcat, otter and pine marten among them
135 bird species heard, 41 with no earlier public record nearby
1 golden jackal family raising pups between the rows, July 2026
Château Purcari
Château Purcari · biodiversity monitoring
Illustration · from the film “Neighbours of the Vineyard”
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In frame
One year, fourteen cameras
Press play, or tap a cell in the grid. The name in the corner of the frame is the animal in the shot; tap it to pause and open its card.
Events by season
Cameras
This shot
Day shift, night shiftWhen each animal passes the cameras, hour by hour across the year. Brighter means more events; each row is scaled to its own busiest hour.
Four voicesWhat the signatures look like. Three are reference recordings of species the microphones heard here (xeno-canto, CC BY-NC-SA); the pheasant is from camera CT69.
Birdsong: what the microphones heard
Birds rarely show on the cameras. Recorders at twelve points listened through the year, and automatic identification turned the recordings into a species list.
A summer minute at the estateOne recorder, one minute: the sound drawn as a landscape. Time runs left to right, pitch rises upwards; brighter is louder.
SM2 recordersummer 2025 · 0–10 kHz · press play and watch the line cross the sound
Who sings whenThe 24 most heard species, week by week through the year. Each strip is scaled to its own peak.
Bats: a summer in ultrasoundFive detectors listened all summer. Here are three nights in July, hour by hour.
Passes by hour of the night
Three recordingsSlowed ten times so you can hear them. The line follows the sound.