Just got back from Ny-Ålesund, the northernmost town in the world, to catch and track Arctic terns for @seatrackscience.bsky.social in collaboration with @maartenloonen.bsky.social.

I love coming to this place, and I love the terns. They probably did not like me so much though...

🔊🔊 What's important in a duet? In a new paper, we tested whether duet coordination in pairs has a function in their territoriality, using fine-scale and coarse measures of duet coordination in response to playback in chirruping wedgebills.
See 👉 doi.org/10.1111/eth.... @marcnaguib.bsky.social

Based on our new paper in #ProcB: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @hannahdugdale.bsky.social @terryburke.bsky.social
@david-s-richardson.bsky.social

Broken families can have huge effects on children, even later in life. But is that the case in species other than humans?

Read my latest article in the ‪@aunz.theconversation.com‬ on mate switching effects in offspring of the ‪@seychelleswarbler.bsky.social‬ 👇
theconversation.com/the-chicks-a...

Check out the latest paper on the dramas of Seychelles warbler family life here! 👇👇

Most Relatable Paper Title 2025?

Stewart & Kelley find in chestnut-backed antbirds that acoustic features + duet coordination correlate w/body & territory size

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interesting to compare w/quoted @friggspeelman.bsky.social study

#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics

Duetting do what now?

@friggspeelman.bsky.social etc al. (incl. @marcnaguib.bsky.social) ask in chirruping wedgebills.

Authors measure response to playbacks of duets, coordinated or un-

Results do not support role for precise coordination

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/o...

#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics

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New preprint out with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @erikpostma.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Why do we age? And can a “natural experiment” during the Great Finnish Famine with long-term data help provide some answers?

Based on our recent article in Ecology Letters: doi.org/10.1111/ele....

A lovely feature in iflscience on the causes of divorce 💔 in Seychelles warblers! 👇👇👇
www.iflscience.com/why-these-li...

This work is co-authored by @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, David Richardson, Jan Komdeur, and Terry Burke

Then, we studied divorcing using long-term data of @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social addressing all these shortcomings, and found that divorce is related to male age, pair-bond tenure, and reproductive success, but that there are no strong fitness consequences to divorce

We addressed 5 shortcomings: (1) divorcees and widows and (2) initiators and victims of divorce are not disentangled, (3) consequences of divorce and widowhood are not studied together (4) long-term consequences and (5) age-dependency of divorce are not addressed

New paper: causes and short & long-term consequences of divorcing 💔. This papers highlights the shortcomings of studying divorce to date and provides methods to address them. Plus some new insights on divorcing in birds! See 👇 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74.

Go on girl. 😍

🌧️💔🐦 Climate impacts on bird relationships

A new @animalecology.bsky.social study shows high & low rainfall impacts divorce rates in monogamous Seychelles warblers.

Could this signal broader ecological impacts due to #ClimateChange?

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧪 #SciComm

Listen to Frigg Speelman speaking on ABC radio national drive about the love life of the Seychelles warblers: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Want to know how divorce in birds is associated with rainfall? 💔🌧️ Frigg Speelman wrote a piece (in non-scientific jargon!) theconversation.com/divorce-in-s... about our recent paper doi.org/10.1111/1365...