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1/3 Rooks that understand us when we speak!

Leo, a 21-year-old rook, began following verbal instructions spontaneously during comparative cognition experiments. He has been tested for this ability, and did great.

(paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Goffins being social in Singapur - enjoying fieldwork with @theroesa.bsky.social

Stay tuned for a very exciting update coming shortly from the ManyBirds Project! Eeek!

Thanks! 🙏

Thank you and take care 🙏🦅

Thank you 🦅🙏

🎓✨ It’s official – I am now a Ph.D. 🎓✨
After years of research, fieldwork, writing, and countless discussions, I successfully defended my dissertation on predator recognition in birds.

I couldn’t have done this without the support of my colleagues, mentors, friends, family and birds. Thank you! 🦅🙏

In robins, males and females sing to defend a territory. A new paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org shows that both increase vocal effort when hearing the song of an intruder, regardless of its sex. This highlights the role of female birdsong in displaying aggression: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Light pollution is causing birds around the world to sing for longer each day, prolonging their vocalizations on average by 50 minutes, according to a new study in Science.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Uz7vzP

🤩 Both amusing and informative! #BirdCognition #Ornithology 🪶

Broad in scope but strikingly concise, highly accessible, and nuanced - go get this book if you have even the slightest interest in birds and/or vertebrate brain evolution. I will use it a lot. Congrats @evoneuro.bsky.social!
#neuroskyence 🧪

New @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social paper out today in @royalsociety.org Biology Letters. We found adult jackdaws can learn to tolerate usually bullied or ignored juveniles when they provided information about a new foraging resource.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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...

The video of the talk in Frankfurt on "Born Knowing" by MITPress (in English) and by Adelphi (translated in Italian)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfEp...

Our new review on numerical cognition in birds, just out in Nature Reviews Psychology! 🐦🧠

Behavior, neurobiology & field studies across avian species

Very fond of the neurobiology part :)

📖 Read it here: rdcu.be/eyErI

Out now: The physiological costs of leadership

We reveal that initiating movements—especially when attempting to initiate against a majority and when there is directional conflict—drives elevated heart rates in vulturine guineafowl

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

@currentbiology.bsky.social

1/4 Use of tools (for allogrooming) in orcas

They have been recorded (Salish Sea) using kelp, cutting it (technically the first documentation of toolmaking in cetaceans) and using it to groom others.

(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...

Late to the party but the last paper of my PhD was published earlier this year!
Pinyon jays (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) and Clark’s nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) can discriminate between pilfering and non-pilfering conspecifics, but not between heterospecifics link.springer.com/article/10.1...

NEW PAPER: Same-sex partnerships in birds: a review of the current literature and a call for more data.

➡️ vist.ly/3n99bk6

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1/2 Pigeons pay attention to where other pigeons are looking

They used a motion capture system to study this. The probability of them paying attention to an object increases with the number of pigeons already looking at it. It is linear, with no quorum or limit

(paper) www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Sure :)

Od špačků k hashtagům: Hejna na nebi a v online světě lidí

👨‍🔬 Etolog Ondřej Fišer a filozof jazyka Tomáš Koblížek na této dvojpřednášce objasní, jak výzkum ptačích hejn inspiruje studium internetových komunit.
@laniusondrej.bsky.social
@tomaskoblizek.bsky.social

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31.

More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities

👨‍🔬 Etolog Ondřej Fišer a filozof jazyka Tomáš Koblížek objasní, jak výzkum ptačích hejn inspiruje studium internetových komunit.

👍 První část - spolupráce ptáků.
👀 youtu.be/CL2oHBFcd-E?...

✌️ Druhá část - internetová hejna (brzy na Youtube).

@laniusondrej.bsky.social
@tomaskoblizek.bsky.social