Grace Blackburn, Author at British Ornithologists' Union

About the author

Grace Blackburn

Grace is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia working with wild Western Australian Magpies. Her research focuses on anthropogenic stressors affecting the behaviour and communication of urban living birds, using magpies as a model study system. Grace’s main areas of interest are animal behaviour, anthropogenic change, communication, and cognition.

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Inspiration from the #AOC2023

By Grace Blackburn|2024-02-06T10:33:15+00:008 Feb 2024|BOU members, BOU-funded, Conferences, News, scicomm, science blogging, science communication|

Grace provides an account of her time at #AOC2023 presenting some of her research.

Cognition helps birds respond to man-made noise

By Grace Blackburn|2023-12-04T10:28:08+00:004 Dec 2023|corvids, Disturbance, early-career researcher|

Magpies with better cognitive performance cope better with anthropogenic noise

Can magpies tell friend from foe?

By Grace Blackburn|2022-11-28T11:42:26+00:005 Dec 2022|behaviour, bird communities, communal, communication, communications, corvids, early-career researcher, ECR, experiment, fieldwork, IBIS, personality, population dynamics, population structure, sound, territoriality, vocalisations|

Can Western Australian Magpies distinguish between songs of groupmates and non-groupmates?