Congratulations to lab member Xinyue Chen who coauthored this great new paper on vocal performance with Drs. Jill Soha and Rindy Anderson! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Trill performance in a large-repertoire songbird with high song sharing, the Bachman’s sparrow - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Trilled syllables in bird song are of particular interest for their potential to communicate singing ability and thus singer quality. One reason for this is that trills require high consistency of per...

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Many New World warblers sing duets — but nobody knew why. Krause et al. used radio telemetry to show that Adelaide’s warbler pairs duet to defend their territory, supporting the idea that duets function as cooperative signals. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

My department is hiring a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor for next year to teach in our Intro Sequence! The deadline (May 15) is getting close. The job would be excellent for someone interested in teaching at a small college. Please RT! www.owu.edu/about/office...

Our new paper describes song type sharing, matching, and collective themes in Adelaide's warbler dawn chorus communication networks. It's part of a special issue on animal communication networks. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... #animalcommunication #communicationnetworks #birdsong

I just received this lovely letter signed, "Voz Londy." I searched the name and found dozens of examples of people receiving beautiful handwritten letters from this person. What a human! #randomactsofkindness #vozlondy #ecuatorialguinea

The Birdsong Lab is recruiting graduate students to study vocal communication in tropical birds. The deadline to apply is less than a week away! #birds #birdsong #ornithology #animalbehavior #BirdsCanada #AcademicSky #SciComm

Want to learn conservation genetics from an international team of experts? The 30th iteration of the intensive, hands-on ConGen course will be in Brazil this year. congenglobal.org/brazil2026/

For the 2026 ABS Meeting, the Latin America Affairs Committee invites all ABS members to submit lightning talk proposals for the special session Gadgets, Inventos, and Gambiarras: Creative, Budget-friendly DIY Research Methods in Animal Behavior!

In many tropical birds, both male and female sing. The sexes may sound similar or different, but AFAIK, the black-bellied wren is the only species where the sexes have "opposite" song structures. The high costs of incorrect sex recognition may have driven the evolution of sexually antithetical song.

How can we figure out the rules duetting birds use to coordinate their songs? The answer slapped me in the face when a black-bellied wren duetted with my playback (Logue 2006, 2007)! See complementary studies by Karla Rivera-Cáceres (development), Eric Fortune, and Melissa Coleman (mechanisms).

Nightingales are masters of imitation! New research shows: During territorial contests, a male matches a rival’s song in real time by tracking and imitating both, pitch and syllable duration. This shows a remarkable precision in hearing and vocal control. 🔗More: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2026-01-vallentin

The Birdsong Lab is recruiting graduate students! Links in the comments. Please repost!

Why do mated songbirds sing beautifully coordinated duets? My Ph.D. work showed that duets are cooperative signals that pairs use to defend their shared territory. This visual summary is based on Logue & Gammon 2004 Animal Behaviour 68: 521-531 and Logue 2005 Cognition, Brain, Behavior 9:497-510.

I am recruiting postbacs for my parakeet sociality and cognition project, ideally to start in Feb/Mar this year. Help spreading the word would be appreciated! More information and application link available here: ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/s...

I made this infographic celebrating Bill Cade's scientific legacy with NotebookLM. Citations are Cade 1975, Zuk et al. 2006, Logue et al. 2010.

My postdoc superviser, Bill Cade, has passed away. One evening in the early 1970s, Bill broadcast cricket songs to attract females. Instead, he noticed strange yellow flies buzzing around the loudspeakers. Thus was discovered the now-famous acoustically-orienting parasitoid, Ormia ochracea.

A visual summary of Peter and Juley's new open access paper in Ibis. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How do birds use song to communicate about aggressive interactions? Many studies use playback to address this question, but playback studies may not be perfect simulations of real interactions. In this study, we ask how song structure and singing behaviour change around the time of natural fights.

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EARLY VIEW in IBIS Fight song: variation in singing behaviour and song structure during natural agonistic interactions in a tropical songbird, Adelaide's Warbler (Setophaga adelaidae) | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Peter C. Mower et al | #ornithology 🪶

We're happy because we were discussing this great new paper by Volle et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm stoked to see's new YouTube channel, "Birdbrain Q&A" www.youtube.com/@BirdbrainQA...

Birdbrain Q&A

Q&A sessions for the bird-curious. . . where no question is too flighty. Hosted by ornithologist Lauryn Benedict and author Pam Moore. Produced and edited by Jill Dugan.

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Apply for funding to support Animal Behaviour-related conferences in Latin America. fs10.formsite.com/spltrak/fneb... #animalbehavior #ABS

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Nick Bohle, Tanya Martinez, and I are making a movie! Shout out to our amazing collaborators at Almodóvar Photography and Ansonia Records. @birdcalloftheday.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @parksbabel.bsky.social #bioacoustic #birdsong #birds #PuertoRico

Our new paper is a deep dive into the pros and cons of double quantile regression for estimating performance limits. academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

On the use of double quantile regression and visual assessment to estimate performance constraints

Double quantile regression (DQR) is a statistical method used to estimate constraints on animal performance, but it has some important limitations. We expl

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Here's an upgraded version of the dawn chorus visualization I posted the other day. It now plays the songs in real time, and makes song type matches more conspicuous. Leave your suggestions in the comments!

Exited about our first dynamic map of Adelaide's warblers' dawn chorus! Males sing many song types (colors & numbers) from the tops of tall trees in their territories. Here, you can see how they match one anothers' song types, causing songs 8, 3, 9, 21, and 5 to spread around the neighbourhood.

Excited to be in Poland, giving a series of talks at the University of Warsaw! Today I'll talk about reseach old (duets) and new (dawn chorus). Tomorrow, it's how to make your academic slides slightly less boring 😄 #Ornithology #Birdsong #ScienceCommunication #FieldworkAbroad #AcademicLife

Congratulations to Oluwatosin Ogundimu (in stripes) for successfully defending her master's thesis, "Song type preferences during the dawn chorus in male Adelaide's warblers"! (🧵 1 / 5)

New paper alert! Community algorithms reveal song type themes in Adelaide’s warbler song type sequence networks (🧵 1 /5) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Community algorithms reveal song type themes in Adelaide’s warbler song type sequence networks

Some New World Warblers (Family: Parulidae) sing with immediate variety during the dawn chorus and eventual variety during daytime song. We used network analysis, including a community clustering a...

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US-based Michelle Moyers and Kevin Omland collaborated with local students and scientists for this study of male and female song in Puerto Rican orioles. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Acoustic Features, Syllable Usage, and Song Rates of Male and Female Songs in a Tropical Island Songbird, the Puerto Rican Oriole

Seven of the eight acoustic measurements for Puerto Rican Oriole songs differed significantly between males and females (indicated by *, all except percent pause), Though male means differed signific...

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@juleyvc.bsky.social and I spoke about our recent research on Adelaide's warbler with students and community members from Roots and Shoots Puerto Rico. Video is in Spanish www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVTc...

"Descifrando el comportamiento de la reinita mariposera a través de su canto"

YouTube video by Roots & Shoots Puerto Rico

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