Grace Blackburn
@gblackburn.bsky.social
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dutourmylene.bsky.social
Thrilled to see our magpie research featured in "Why Do Birds Sing?" now out and recently highlighted in The Canberra Times!
Amazing to see how our work on female song and social complexity in magpies is resonating ❤️
@mandyridley.bsky.social @gblackburn.bsky.social
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euanritchie.bsky.social
Protecting darkness and minimising light pollution is important for human and wildlife health. Please consider signing and sharing this petition.

Petition EN7346 - National Legislation for Light Pollution Regulation and Dark Sky Preservation www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

Closes 19 September.
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mandyridley.bsky.social
Our new cognition paper is out, headed by @gblackburn.bsky.social, and one of the last chapters from her exceptional PhD thesis!
gblackburn.bsky.social
New paper alert 🚨 We test quantity discrimination in #magpies using both a cognitive task and playback experiment and find that birds can discriminate between quantities in both! Interestingly, performance in the two task was negatively correlated! 🐦
@mandyridley.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
Response to intruder number is related to spontaneous quantity discrimination performance in a wild bird
The ability to discriminate between quantities is important for animal species. We show that wild magpies can discriminate both between different quantitie
doi.org
gblackburn.bsky.social
New paper alert 🚨 We test quantity discrimination in #magpies using both a cognitive task and playback experiment and find that birds can discriminate between quantities in both! Interestingly, performance in the two task was negatively correlated! 🐦
@mandyridley.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
Response to intruder number is related to spontaneous quantity discrimination performance in a wild bird
The ability to discriminate between quantities is important for animal species. We show that wild magpies can discriminate both between different quantitie
doi.org
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hollykirk.bsky.social
Interesting research, suggesting poorly designed or excessive private lighting is contributing as much to ALAN pollution as street lights.
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This seems to be one of the few areas where our own actions can make a significant positive contribution!

Turn it off!
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theconversation.com/street-lamps...
Street lamps aren’t the only form of artificial light pollution – here’s how to create darker nights
Light Pollution is a significant environmental issue and is spreading rapidly. The good news is that it is easy to fix - find out how here…
theconversation.com
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ceb-uwa.bsky.social
Check out new #CEB paper by @gblackburn.bsky.social et al. that found that Western Australia magpies sing less when exposed to anthropogenic noise, but not necessarily louder. 🐦🚧
This may save energy, yet could cost social & territorial signals.
doi.org/10.1111/ibi....
#Bioacoustics #UrbanEcology
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Reposted by Grace Blackburn
pezoporus.bsky.social
Great piece on our new research highlighting the severe impact of using second generation anticoagulant rodenticides. We are killing quolls snd Tasmanian devils when we poison rats. www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...
Australia-first study finds rat poison in rare Perth Hills chuditch
New evidence shows the first confirmed cases of rat poisoning in native Australian marsupial carnivores.
www.watoday.com.au
gblackburn.bsky.social
Happy to share that today I started a #Postdoctoral #research fellow position at Central Queensland University working with Capricorn yellow #chats! 🐦 Very excited for this new adventure!