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  "id": 229996,
  "title": "Hi there and good luck!!",
  "url": "/competitions/birdclef-2021/discussion/229996",
  "author_name": "Holger Klinck",
  "post_date": "2021-04-01T15:17:17.338000",
  "votes": 19,
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  "content": "<p>Welcome to the 2021 BirdCLEF challenge! I am the Director of the Center for Conservation Bioacoustics (CCB) at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and a co-host of this competition. We are looking forward to your creative solutions to our tough acoustic analysis challenges. In collaboration with local partners, CCB is running acoustic monitoring projects around the globe to enable data-driven conversation. Your solutions will help us to scale up our efforts and contribute to preserving some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet.</p>\n<p>If you have any questions about this competition or the work we do, please reach out!</p>\n<p>Good luck!</p>\n<p>Holger</p>\n<p>PS: You also might want to check out our previous competition: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/birdsong-recognition/overview\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/birdsong-recognition/overview</a></p>",
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      "content": "<p>Welcome to the 2021 BirdCLEF challenge! I am the Director of the Center for Conservation Bioacoustics (CCB) at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and a co-host of this competition. We are looking forward to your creative solutions to our tough acoustic analysis challenges. In collaboration with local partners, CCB is running acoustic monitoring projects around the globe to enable data-driven conversation. Your solutions will help us to scale up our efforts and contribute to preserving some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet.</p>\n<p>If you have any questions about this competition or the work we do, please reach out!</p>\n<p>Good luck!</p>\n<p>Holger</p>\n<p>PS: You also might want to check out our previous competition: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/birdsong-recognition/overview\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/birdsong-recognition/overview</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Welcome to the 2021 BirdCLEF challenge! I am the Director of the Center for Conservation Bioacoustics (CCB) at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and a co-host of this competition. We are looking forward to your creative solutions to our tough acoustic analysis challenges. In collaboration with local partners, CCB is running acoustic monitoring projects around the globe to enable data-driven conversation. Your solutions will help us to scale up our efforts and contribute to preserving some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet.\n\nIf you have any questions about this competition or the work we do, please reach out!\n\nGood luck!\n\nHolger\n\nPS: You also might want to check out our previous competition: https://www.kaggle.com/c/birdsong-recognition/overview",
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    "1259674": "Welcome to the 2021 BirdCLEF challenge! I am the Director of the Center for Conservation Bioacoustics (CCB) at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and a co-host of this competition. We are looking forward to your creative solutions to our tough acoustic analysis challenges. In collaboration with local partners, CCB is running acoustic monitoring projects around the globe to enable data-driven conversation. Your solutions will help us to scale up our efforts and contribute to preserving some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet.\n\nIf you have any questions about this competition or the work we do, please reach out!\n\nGood luck!\n\nHolger\n\nPS: You also might want to check out our previous competition: https://www.kaggle.com/c/birdsong-recognition/overview"
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