XC200000 – Common Chaffinch – Fringilla Coelebs
xeno-canto.org
xeno-canto.org
no ads. no growth hacking. no IPO. no exit strategy. just quality content and worldwide cooperation.
And cash from the dutch government via the Naturalis museum. And content contributed largely by volunteers.
It's a great project and website, but i think comparing it to a commercial company is very pointless.
Are you contending that the internet should be wholly funded by governments? I'm confused.
If I had a solution to generalize this I would be busy implementing it.
I live in a rural area with an incredibly wide spectrum of birdsong throughout the seasons. Strangely, as I've grown older, I'm come to appreciate the sounds of our local wildlife, especially birdsong. Hell I even wake up early enough to listen to "Tweet of the Day" on BBC Radio 4 [0].
I'd say this site is certainly not "useless" for aficionados of our feathered friends.
Also...must everything end up on Wikipedia?
And frankly, the birds make these lovely noises, the people who record them should not restrict usage - there is no creative input.
Essentially to make them part of free culture we are going to have to relicense them or rerecord them.