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Can you hear me?

By Lauren Chronister|2023-03-31T16:59:45+00:003 Apr 2023|acoustic monitoring, bird song, citizen science, communications, community ecology, competition, data repository, IBIS, open source, song, sound, vocalisations|

Birds use clever strategies to communicate in crowds

How to use BirdNET

By Cristian Pérez-Granados|2023-03-20T15:38:40+00:0027 Mar 2023|acoustic monitoring, bird song, citizen science, data repository, IBIS, open source, passive acoustic monitoring, song, sound, vocalisations|

Reviewing the applications, performance and opportunities of BirdNET for bird monitoring

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?

How do urban birds settle fights under noise?

By Çağla Önsal (she/her)|2022-10-08T14:43:57+00:0013 Oct 2022|acoustic monitoring, behaviour, bird song, communication, competition, Disturbance, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, experiment, fieldwork, garden birds, habitat, noise pollution, passerines, sensory ecology, song, sound|

Loud cities reshape communication and aggressive behaviour in European Robins

How do territorial songbirds convey aggression?

By Sean Roach|2022-04-11T15:40:14+00:0011 Apr 2022|acoustic monitoring, bioacoustics, ecology, IBIS, passerines, song, sound|

An examination of overlapping, matching, and unique song forms

A warbler’s choice

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-01-10T14:42:34+00:0013 Jan 2022|acoustic monitoring, breeding biology, communication, experiment, habitat selection, sound, territoriality|

How do Black-and-white Warblers select a breeding location?

The changing sounds of spring

By Catriona Morrison|2021-11-15T10:32:04+00:0015 Nov 2021|acoustic monitoring, bioacoustics, biodiversity, bird assemblages, bird communities, bird song, citizen science, communication, community ecology, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, passerines, sound, vocalisations|

Citizen science data reveals a decline in the quality of soundscapes across two continents.

Does your neighbourhood make you stressed?

By Diane Colombelli-Negrel|2021-04-23T08:58:09+00:0026 Apr 2021|bird-human interactions, colonial birds, Disturbance, physiology, predation, Seabirds, sound|

Little Penguins living in different environments differ in their response to stressors

Booming Bitterns

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-15T17:25:23+00:005 Sep 2019|bioacoustics, camouflage, Conservation, cryptic, monitoring, News, nocturnal birds, sound|

When is the best time to monitor bitterns?

Broadbills sing with their wings

By Alex Kirschel|2021-11-18T14:43:24+00:0025 Apr 2016|behaviour, bird song, communications, display, non-vocal communication, song, sound|

How do Broadbills produce that loud mechanical sound while displaying?