Download a single recording for each species in a country from Xeno-Canto

A warbleR user asks if “there is any method for downloading from xeno canto a SINGLE individual of each species in Costa Rica”. This can be done by 1) downloading the metadata of all recordings in a given site (in this case Costa Rica) using the querxc function from the package warbleR (which searches and downloads recordings from Xeno-Canto), 2) filtering the metadata to have only one recording per species, and 3) input the filtered metadata back into querxcto download the selected recordings. [Read More]