It's "Birds and Reptiles Week" in the International Master's of Bioacoustics program. This week we're on campus at Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne. Today we had great lectures and workshops from Profs. Nicolas Mathevon, Ole Larsen, and Magnus Wahlberg. @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social

Our week of field-based learning has finished with a beautiful sunset, a campfire lecture, and a starry night. And a shockingly hard acoustic quiz. Can you differentiate a screaming deer, a creaking door, and a shrieking Nazgul? Next week: bird & reptile week on campus. @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social

Please share!🙏 🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦

Sarah Dobney presented her doctoral studies at the International Bioacoustics Congress #ibac2025 in Kerteminde, Denmark. Way to go @sdobney.bsky.social!

We've launched a Motus Audio Recorder on Pelee Island! Natalie, Madison, and Nelsy launched our 10th recorder, which will survey migratory birds passing over Pelee Island this fall. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @birdscanada.bsky.social @peleeislandbird.bsky.social

I've been loving the talks and posters being presented at #IBAC2025! Come see my poster today to learn about the "Songs of the studs" 🎤🐦🪺 @dmennill.bsky.social

Yay bioacousticians all around! <3 Come see me at the #IBAC session tomorrow - or anytime for coffee/bikes!

"UWindsor students co-author scientific paper after immersive Paris field course." Today's campus newsletter has a write-up about our new paper, arising from our field course on Bird Song and Anthropogenic Noise. 🇫🇷🎶🐦 Check it out: www.uwindsor.ca/news/2025-07...

The latest issue of Avian Conservation and Ecology (ACE) is out now! Volume 20, Issue 1 features a variety of captivating bird research papers, including a new study co-authored by Danielle Ethier, Senior Scientist at Birds Canada. Dive into this study and more at avianconservationecology.org

Our new paper is out: "Avian biodiversity in the urban green spaces of Paris: higher bird species richness in larger parks and park centers". Co-authored with 14 UWindsor students from a Study Abroad field course. In Avian Conservation & Ecology: ace-eco.org/vol20/iss2/a... Here's our story... 🧵1/8

Savannah Sparrow song and Ovenbird song is the focus from our team today at #CSEE2025: At 8:45 "Song of the Studs" by Sarah Dobney in Behav Ecol 1. At 11:30 "Clamorous and Amorous" by Connor Acorn in Behav Ecol 2. @csee-scee.bsky.social @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social @sdobney.bsky.social

What's all the buzz about? Today at 10:30 in the Avian Ecology session of #CSEE2025, our newest team member, Natalie Emerick, will present her research on bat and aerial insectivore acoustics (coauthors Hannah ter Hofstede and Liam O'Leary). @csee-scee.bsky.social @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

It's a big day for our team at #CSEE2025: At 14:00 join @jaclynaubin.bsky.social in room Sherbrooke C for her talk on St. Lawrence Beluga bioacoustics. At 16:30 join me in room Lac Memphrémagog for my talk on a global horizon scan of bioacoustics. @csee-scee.bsky.social @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

Our team has prepared four talks for the upcoming #CSEE2025 meeting in Sherbrooke next week. I'm excited about the new projects we're going to share. See you in Quebec! 🎤🎶🐦🐋🇨🇦 @csee-scee.bsky.social @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Earlier this season we said goodbye to GBB. Born in 2014, she was one of the oldest and most productive females in our population: 35 nests, 80 eggs, 47 chicks fledged, 35 reached independence, 24 grandkids. This female below has now taken over her territory. Big 🐾 to fill! #SFW_ANU #birds #ecology

We've just won two grants! Both are under embargo, but some exciting plans will now come to fruition for bioacoustic studies of wild birds and whales in Canada and beyond. With my awesome collaborators @jaclynaubin.bsky.social @ryannorrissci.bsky.social and S. Doucet.

How loud is a sparrow? Our new project involves measuring the amplitude of Savannah Sparrow songs. This is a team investigation with @jaclynaubin.bsky.social, @sdobney.bsky.social, @nelsyninor.bsky.social, M. Bygrove, N. Emerick, and our sparrow collaborators, with funding from NSERC.

Our 2025 Savannah Sparrow research team in the field. What a pleasure to work alongside these field ornithologists at Bowdoin Scientific Station! @ryannorrissci.bsky.social @sdobney.bsky.social

Farewell Kent Island! With an A+ Savannah Sparrow team I helped record songs of 34 males, find 36 nests, and colour band 29 adults & 18 nestlings! More to come as the season finishes. Sad to leave, but thankful to be part of this [email protected] @ryannorrissci.bsky.social #ornithology

My chapbook, Savannah Sparrow, has made it to the library at the Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island. Kent Island is the origin of the ideas I explore in this essay on vocal learning in wild birds.

On this week's American Birding Podcast: An interesting study discussed on the monthly This Month in Birding segment led us to Miranda Zemmerelli, a PhD student at Dartmouth University.

Our acoustic search for threatened Leach's Storm-Petrels in the Bay of Fundy has begun! 🎤🐦🇨🇦 Supported by NSERC and New Brunswick Wildlife Trust Fund. @ingridpollet.bsky.social @sdobney.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Sarah and I changed batteries for 10 storm-petrel recorders on Kent Island. This is part of our new collaboration with Ingrid Pollet and Patty Jones and other petrel researchers in eastern Canada. 🎤🎶🐦 @sdobney.bsky.social @ingridpollet.bsky.social @wildlifeacoustics.bsky.social

Last night's test of our Motus Audio night flight call recorder on Kent Island: we recorded Ovenbirds, Grey-cheeked Thrushes, Greater Yellowlegs, and diverse other warblers (lots of zeeps) and thrushes. @birdscanada.bsky.social

Nesting is progressing nicely on Kent Island. We already have one Savannah Sparrow nest with nestlings! These tiny babies will be ready to leave the nest in just 7 more days! @dmennill.bsky.social @ryannorrissci.bsky.social

Today I launched a Motus Audio night flight call recorder at Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island. How many migrants will fly over the Bay of Fundy tonight? @birdscanada.bsky.social

Quick, it's not too late to participate in #Birdathon! Help us protect birds by donating, or raise money yourself and do a big day! Our team, The Windsor Warblers (www.canadahelps.org/s/jmhwMw) had so much fun on our big day! @nelsyninor.bsky.social @jaclynaubin.bsky.social @birdscanada.bsky.social

The Savannah Sparrows are officially nesting on Kent Island! Our team found the first nest yesterday with 4 eggs 🥚. The happy couple is N.WB & B.RN, returning birds from 2024. Check in as we find more! @dmennill.bsky.social @ryannorrissci.bsky.social @jaclynaubin.bsky.social @nelsyninor.bsky.social

Our team assisted visiting scientists banding Herring Gulls and Greater Black-backed Gulls on Kent Island. Thank you Rob and Laura from Birds Canada and Environment Canada for letting us be gullible. @nelsyninor.bsky.social @jaclynaubin.bsky.social @sdobney.bsky.social @birdscanada.bsky.social

Our Kent Island team is hard at work building our 2025 song library, a catalogue of songs recorded from all banded Savannah Sparrows on the island. Great work Jaclyn, Sarah, Nelsy, Madison, Natalie! 👩‍🔬🎤🎶🐦 @jaclynaubin.bsky.social @sdobney.bsky.social @nelsyninor.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

This weekend was the official release of my chapbook: SAVANNAH SPARROW. This popular-science essay describes our research on vocal learning in wild birds. Part of Pelee Island Bird Observatory's "Birders on Birds" chapbook series, all proceeds support bird conservation on Pelee Island. [1/3]

Today I had the pleasure of being the Celebrity Birder at the Pelee Island Bird Observatory’s Springsong Festival. I delivered a talk at the Pelee Island Winery to a great crowd of birders and nature lovers. Thank you @peleeislandbird.bsky.social !

In honour of World Migratory Bird Day, tonight at Ojibway Nature Centre in Windsor I will present a talk: "How wild birds learn to sing: the dynamics of vocal learning in nature." 🐦🎶🎤 Everyone is welcome! Details are in this article in today's campus Daily News: www.uwindsor.ca/dailynews/20...

In the fog on Kent Island at Bowdoin Scientific Station, Savannah Sparrow banding is underway. Great research Sarah, Nelsy, Madison, Natalie, and Jaclyn! @sdobney.bsky.social @nelsyninor.bsky.social @jaclynaubin.bsky.social @ryannorrissci.bsky.social

"Exploring Bird Sounds with Dan Mennill." What an honour to be interviewed on The Warblers, the Birds Canada podcast. Listen here: Spotify: tinyurl.com/2skkart8 Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/2stnm5ak Birds Canada: www.birdscanada.org/warblerspodc... @birdscanada.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

On May 23rd I will be taking part in the Birds Canada Birdathon here in southern Alberta to help raise $ to support bird conservation in Canada. Please consider donating using the link below. #birdathon2025 #birds #birdingforconservation www.canadahelps.org/me/ngYdTdj

Today we recorded near the Gordie Howe International Bridge in the Ojibway National Urban Park. How will our soundscapes and biodiversity change when the bridge opens? Michelle and I shall find out! @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Tree Swallows... Gray Catbirds... Baltimore Orioles... Our bioacoustic surveys of avian biodiversity in urban green spaces of Essex County continues with newly arriving migratory birds. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Meet LO.N, a male Savannah Sparrow living on Kent Island, NB, Canada. We know he hatched ~11 mon. ago, on this very island. We know his parents. We know his song. We even know the exact male he learned his song from! Can't wait to learn more about LO.N as the season continues! #longtermdata #birds

The sun rises on our 2025 Savannah Sparrow field season. Sarah, Nelsy, Jaclyn, Madison, & Natalie have arrived on Kent Island to start our collaborative field studies. Stay tuned for updates from the Bay of Fundy. @nelsyninor.bsky.social @sdobney.bsky.social @jaclynaubin.bsky.social 📷: N. Emerick

Rose-breasted Grosbeaks... Yellow Warblers... Chipping Sparrows... With PhD student Michelle Bondy, this week we started a new project on biodiversity in Ojibway National Urban Park. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @wildlifeacoustics.bsky.social

Happy Easter everyone! You know what Easter makes me think of? Eggs. Repost the quoted post for your chance to win a replica Great auk egg.

Very pleased to announce that I have successfully defended my doctoral dissertation! Huge thanks to my supervisory committee, @dmennill.bsky.social, @marine-valeria.bsky.social, @lrendell.bsky.social, Robert Michaud, Christina Semeniuk, Nigel Hussey, and Aaron Fisk! @uwindsor.bsky.social

Field season preparations are in full swing. Connor taught Jaclyn, Nelsy, Sarah, and I how to use our sound level meter ahead of our upcoming Kent Island research expedition. @jaclynaubin.bsky.social @nelsyninor.bsky.social @sdobney.bsky.social

Nelsy Niño Rodríguez passed her Comprehensive Exam today! She expertly answered a wide-ranging set of questions from six examiners. Congratulations @nelsyninor.bsky.social! Our whole lab is very proud of you!

NEW PAPER: hooded warblers adjust incubation based on temperature. Warmer conditions lead to longer on-bouts, stabilizing nest temperatures, while cooler temperatures increase off-bouts, lowering temperature and hatching success. ➡️ vist.ly/3mynz5m #ornithology #climate

Saturday afternoon at the River Bookshop... I picked up my copies of Feminism in the Wild by @ambikamath.bsky.social & Melina Packer. One copy for me; one for our lab library. I'm excited to read about "how human biases shape our understanding of animal behavior".

Recording in 3... 2... 1... I've been invited to be a guest on the #WarblersPodcast, the official podcast of @birdscanada.bsky.social, and we're recording this morning!

New AOS journal Special Feature | "Hidden Nests: Advances & Challenges in the Research & Conservation of Cavity-Nesting Birds in the Neotropics" includes 7 field studies, a perspective, and a review. Read the full Special Feature: americanornithology.org/cavity-nesti... 📸 Daniela Zaffignani