My musings and adventures with the AudioMoth recorder, for support from the project please go to the Open Acoustic Devices site.  You should note that while I try to keep this website up to date the most recent information will always be the Open Acoustic Devices website and forums or (for buying) the GroupGets website.

Latest Edit: June 2023

Since I started this wesite AudioMoth has expanded there are now four variants, AudioMoth, HydroMoth, DevMoth and μMoth.  I am only covering the AudioMoth.

AudioMoth is a low cost wide spectrum acoustic recorder, it is a research tool and as such is not available through a shop.  If you want one read the manual and if you still want one go to GroupGets or the Open Acoustic Devices forums website and see if a buying round is open.  It does not come with a warranty or a case.  Because it has a wide acoustic spectrum it is used by groups and individuals to record a variety of sound including gunshots, cicadas, birds, tiger roars and bats.

As of November 2018, on a GroupGets buying round they are $49.99 plus shipping which is a tenth of the cheapest recorder I can find.   There is now an option to buy an AudioMoth at $69.99 plus shipping.

This site is focused on bats and I'm assuming that you are already into bats and bat calls, so there is a LOT of information I'm missing out.

If you have found this site and are baffled by it - I suggest you head over the the Bat Conservation Trust where there is a lot of information about UK bats.

My project is to record bats, what species of bat is at a particular location.  I could sit out and wait with one of my bat detectors or I can use an AudioMoth.

My thinking about this project started when I was out with the Nathiusus' Pipistrelle project on my local lake and recorded a Nathiusus' Pipistrelle and a Lesser Horseshoe neither of which I'd recorded despite having been down on the lake for the last 10 years. So, what I wanted was a way to record without having to be there at a price I could afford.

AudioMoth is an evolving Project and all the latest information should be on the AudioMoth Website

If the AudioMoth is a little big for you there is a new version the μMoth (micromoth) - see above website for project status