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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 26d

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Aug 4

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

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Jun 20

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Jun 18

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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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Jun 13

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!

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Jun 11

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.

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Jun 5

Great to see some work on duetting in New World warblers! Do the females ever use calls to duet? That's the main form of duetting in Adelaide's warbler.

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · May 28

What a cool place! I attended a Nat Wheelwright lecture at Colorado State University ca. 2003. It was a huge inspriration to me -- something I never forgot. It's wonderful that this system lives on!

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · May 5

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

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Apr 1

So, these birds prefer to sing song types that are locally common and transmit long distances during the dawn chorus. The causal relationships among these variables -- individual preference, local popularity, and the propagation efficiently -- remain to be determined. 5 / 5

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Apr 1

Preference is also associated with acoustic properties that promote long distance transmission, like low mean frequency. 4 / 5

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Apr 1

Preference is best explained by local popularity: Individuals tend to overproduce song types that are shared with many of their neighbours. 3 / 5

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Apr 1

Tosin discovered that individual males prefer to sing certain song types during the dawn chorus, and their preferences are consistent across days. 2 / 5

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Apr 1

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)

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Feb 6

Here's our description from the text. Let me know if you have any other questions!

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Feb 6

Project leader Heath Petkau was an undergrad who taught himself to program during this project. He liked it so much, he's going for a master’s in data science. Go get 'em Heath! (5/5)

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Feb 6

Song types formed clusters, or “themes." Clustering was stronger during daytime singing than in the dawn chorus. We hypothesize this difference may be driven by the need to warm up or communicate with neighbours at dawn, or by female preferences for extended themes during daytime song. (4/5)

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Feb 6

We then made song type sequences networks for dawn chorus and daytime song and applied the walktrap community clustering algorithm to identify groups of songs that tend to be delivered in sequential proximity. (3/5)

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Feb 6

Staicer's pioneering work in the 1990s showed that Adelaide’s warblers sing differently during the dawn chorus than they do later in the morning. We used this difference to separate the dawn chorus from daytime song in a large sample of recordings. (2/5)

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Feb 6

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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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Feb 5

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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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Feb 5

@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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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Nov 23

Important topic, and great visual summary! I'll share this one with my Science Communication class.

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Nov 21

There's complexity at every level, from the raw acoustic manuevers to the song repertoires, sequences of song type delivery, and vocal interactions among individuals. Sexual sxn weirdness seems inadequate to explain all that, but it's not language-like either. My take: There's more to discover.

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