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Passive acoustic monitoring enables continuous, non-invasive biodiversity assessment across diverse ecosystems. The scale of these datasets has driven the adoption of machine learning, with supervised approaches showing strong performance. However, supervised methods require time-resolved annotated datasets, which remain scarce, especially in complex tropical soundscapes. We present PteroSet, a curated dataset of strongly annotated Neotropical bird vocalizations recorded in Puerto As\u00eds (Putumayo) and Pivijay (Magdalena), Colombia, between 2023 and 2025. <\/span>The dataset comprises 563 recordings (73.62 h) and 15,372 time-frequency annotations, including 6,702 events identified to the species level across 168 species. We release the annotations in a COCO-inspired JSON schema that unifies audio files, taxonomic categories, and labels for machine learning workflows. <\/span>Beyond providing annotated data, PteroSet serves as a realistic benchmark that highlights key characteristics of tropical soundscapes, including acoustic co-occurrence and domain shift across recording sites. We provide a deep learning baseline for binary bird detection, demonstrating PteroSet\u2019s usability and the challenges it presents.<\/span>

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Passive acoustic monitoring enables continuous, non-invasive biodiversity assessment across diverse ecosystems. The scale of these datasets has driven the adoption of machine learning, with supervised approaches showing strong performance. However, supervised methods require time-resolved annotated datasets, which remain scarce, especially in complex tropical soundscapes. 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