Dünya biyoçeşitlilik günü için: Yaban hayatı dostu tarım. @pinarea.bsky.social'dan @bilimakademisi.bsky.social sarkac.org/2026/05/yaba...

New preprint on monitoring avian acoustic diversity in agricultural landscapes of western Turkey led by Irmak Akoglu and @pinarea.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #bioacoustics

My birding trip in Peru after the last field season was truly amazing. Still can't believe I got to see the Andean cock of the rock with my own eyes!

Happy to see our elephant multimodal communication paper among this collection of articles celebrating Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday!

Do elephants adress one another with vocalizations that function like human personal names, as was widely reported two years ago? Dharmarajan (2026) argues that this finding may have been just a methodological artefact. 🐘🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What an unreal bird! Sword-billed hummingbird, Peru

What is this female Galapagos yellow warbler singing about? Could it be that ECBB 2026 abstract deadline is tomorrow (April 30th) and you should submit an abstract? Well folks, we just don't know... in any case check out the ECBB website. @ecbb2026.bsky.social www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...

Abstract deadline (April 30th) for the European Congress for Behavioural Biology fast approaching!! Don't miss out! www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...

A very dedicated great tit! from r/bbq www.reddit.com/r/BBQ/s/w9Kk...

Something instead of nothing

Galápagos yellow warblers often start incubating their next clutch before their fledglings are fully independent. Which brings a little parent-offspring conflict with it.

You simply MUST watch the video in this paper. Literally sounds like he's starting a slow clap

New paper: Female superb lyrebirds show diverse vocal mimicry unrelated to age, but older females more often mimic predators, suggesting mimicry is fine-tuned for nest defence rather than sexual selection. ➡️ vist.ly/4x338 #ornithology #birds #mimicry #vocalisation #age

“Here am I, where are you?” 🪶 #greylaggeese use soft contact calls to stay connected—and each call can be individual! 🐦 Next time you hear a quiet flock, they may know exactly who’s nearby. 👀✨ 📸 B. Heger @univie.ac.at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper: female birdsong isn’t rare, accidental, or about fighting—so why do females sing? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @univie.ac.at @alperyelimlies.bsky.social @caglarakcay.bsky.social Video: A. Yelimlies

New paper led by @alperyelimlies.bsky.social (1st chapter of his thesis!) in Animal Behaviour: Alper discovered that female Galapagos yellow warblers commonly sing solo songs and duets with their mates but mostly during the non-breeding season. doi.org/10.1016/j.an... #ornithology

I have a new PhD position available on any topic related to musicality or animal communication that aligns well with our current research programs. Deadline March 31: oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=795a... For more info about my Musicality and Bioacoustics group: oeaw.ac.at/en/ari/resea...

Registrations are now open for the renowned PhD Summer school in acoustic communication organised by SDU from 2-15.8 Denmark. Deadline 15.4. More info in picture below. 🦜🐳🦗🦇

Our paper on the female song in Galápagos yellow warblers is now published in Animal Behavior: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... To celebrate, here is the first ever video I recorded back in 2023 of the female BzHz singing!

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

Kuşların değerini biliyor muyuz? sarkac.org/2026/02/kusl... @pinarea.bsky.social tarafından.

An amazing new species of Cordyceps-mimicking spider has just been described from the Ecuadorian Amazon - Taczanowskia waska www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...

New paper led by @alperyelimlies.bsky.social with @caglaonsal.bsky.social where we examine the repeatability of aggression in urban and rural chaffinches. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

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

🚨 New paper alert! "Honestly exaggerated: howler monkey roars are reliable signals of body size and behaviourally relevant to listeners" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We show that formants advertise body size and mediate social interactions in black and gold howler monkeys.

Sneak peek at the opening line of my next grant application:

MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

📣 Annual Meeting of the Ethologische Gesellschaft 2026 🎤 Keynote: Thomas Bugnyar 🐦‍⬛ Leading researcher on ravens and cognition, Professor of Behavioral & Cognitive Biology @univie.ac.at 📍 Grünau | 📅 Feb 18–21, 2026 Four days of science and exchange—where ethology made history. Picture: A. Monteanu

a recent article on the cute little bundles of anger that also features our research www.countryliving.com/uk/wildlife/... our paper can be found here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

SPAR supermarkets are promoting a broom and stick set in Austria with Veronika. It reads: “Einstein among the cows: Spar sells Vroni's back scratcher set” Vroni is the diminutive form of Veronika, of course. Thanks to Özge Nasa for the tip!

Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961

Update on some of our decades long cowbird research in @audubon.org magazine: www.audubon.org/magazine/got...

‘Dear Enemies’ Are Made When A Song Sparrow Learns To Sing www.forbes.com/sites/rebecc...

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

📣 Annual Meeting of the @ethoges.bsky.social 2026 🗓️ 18–21 Feb 2026 | 📍 Almtal, Austria Join us in beautiful Grünau im Almtal for inspiring talks and lively discussions! ⚠️ Registration closes this week! 👉 univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog... @univie.ac.at

✨New paper✨ How do juvenile ravens find social groups? We describe how juvenile common ravens, who have left their natal territories seeking to join non-breeder flocks, use space with respect to other birds, and discuss what this means for social integration. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Here a cute video abstract too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvFw...

🚨20 #postdoc positions of 4 years at @univie.ac.at for female researchers in #STEM and #Economics Application period: January 7 - March 2, 2026 for a start in October 2026. More infos about the call and participating departments and labs here: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

🆕 New paper: How young #ravens find their place in society Using #GPSbiologging, we show that juvenile ravens already display social integration before joining nonbreeder flocks. Space use depends on age, rearing background, and familiarity. @univie.ac.at Picture: M. Klymenko

Borb from yesterday’s walk in Vienna. ❄️🐦 #birds

🎉 Very excited to share that our review on the impact of urbanization on animal social behaviour is out now in Biological Reviews! We synthesize evidence across taxa to understand how city life reshapes social systems 🏙️🐦🐒🦎🦝🐟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @lizabeldm.bsky.social

Nice article on Floreana recovery after pest eradication, including news on Darwin’s Finches songs by colleagues of the @klf-univienna.bsky.social bbc.com/future/artic...

As an early Christmas gift, @journal-evo.bsky.social accepted @kenstoyama.bsky.social and my paper on macroevolutionary patterns of ornament evolution in birds of paradise! 🦚 Check it out here: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Previously we showed that female budgerigars like to listen to rhythm 🎵 just like we humans do. In a new study, we showed that male budgerigar courtship song actually has similar rhythmic properties to human music. doi.org/10.1111/nyas...

Looking for a Postdoc position and have a background in bioacoustics and animal cognition? Interested in whether other animals might have something akin to language? Join our team: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw-home...

What are the causes & consequences of behavioural diversity loss in a changing world? And how do we harness this knowledge for conservation? New open access paper led by @odedberger-tal.bsky.social with David Saltz and @mrmic1.bsky.social #BobWongLab royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...