Love songs and battle cries: vocal duetting behaviour in tropical wrens. Today was my final lecture of the 2025 International Master's of Bioacoustics program. It was a chance to proudly share our collaborative 22-year study of #bioacoustics in Rufous-and-white Wrens. @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social

I can really feel the excitement in the first picture! 😊

Congratulations, Connor! Fantastic thesis defense! 👏🐦

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

Special issue:
FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY

More info: vist.ly/43vfp

Guest editors: Jan O. Engler, Jenn Foote, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:g27o3ttbhwno6sjns7wwl3yg" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@silvereyedom.bsky.social Simon Thorn

#ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

Celebrating a symposium of @behaviour2025.bsky.social, call for article submission for a special issue "Animal Intelligence: From Individual to Social Cognition" in Acta Ethologica.

Submissions are open to everyone!
Information at link.springer.com/collections/...

#Behaviour2025 #actaethologica

Grateful for the opportunity to present my postdoctoral research in the Mennill Lab at #AOS2025 on vocal behaviours of Rufous-and-white wrens in the presence of an owl predator near and far from the nest.

It was wonderful to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones. 🐦🎶🦉

@dmennill.bsky.social

How do Rufous-and-white Wrens respond when this 3D-printed owl is presented near versus far from their nest? Find out in Dr. Natalie Sanchez' talk "Singing in the face of danger" today at 16:00 in Grand Ballroom A at #AOS2025. 🦉🇨🇷🎶 @natingui.bsky.social @gdfcf.bsky.social @lincolnsavi.bsky.social

Hi Dustin! Love wren nests too!

@dmennill.bsky.social look at this photo! 😊

Embed ALL the sounds

New tool from @vskode.bsky.social to compare methods that classify & cluster animal sounds w/ embeddings: vectors extracted from neural network models

Nice example w/ AnuranSet from @juancanyas.bsky.social in post 👇

Code: github.com/bioacoustic-...

#prattle 💬
##bioacoustics

Rufous-and-white Wren tweaking its nest. June 18, 2025. Sector Santa Rosa, ACG. 🍂🪺

Today I launched a Motus Audio night flight call recorder at Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island. How many migrants will fly over the Bay of Fundy tonight? @birdscanada.bsky.social

Wonderful! 🙌

Last week season 10 of Fine finished.
You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel

www.youtube.com/@seminaronfr...

Last April, we nano-tagged Swainson's Thrush in Monteverde, 🇨🇷 to contribute to understand their migration pathways.

This is part of GDFCF @gdfcf.bsky.social BioAve project

We detected them by our Motus stations at Área de Conservación Guanacaste and in their way North. @birdscanada.bsky.social

wrens!
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/21/how-scientists-started-to-decode-birdsong
@NewYorker @BirdLabFlinders

Learn everything you ever wanted to know about bird sounds! The Warblers Podcast chats with @dmennill.bsky.social, a lifelong ornithologist and expert on avian communication. How do thrushes sing? Could we monitor bird populations using sound? What's up with tropical birds duetting?

"Exploring Bird Sounds with Dan Mennill." What an honour to be interviewed on The Warblers, the Birds Canada podcast.
Listen here:
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@birdscanada.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Very pleased to announce that I have successfully defended my doctoral dissertation! Huge thanks to my supervisory committee, @dmennill.bsky.social, @marine-valeria.bsky.social, @lrendell.bsky.social, Robert Michaud, Christina Semeniuk, Nigel Hussey, and Aaron Fisk! @uwindsor.bsky.social

Hey look, I'm news!
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Congratulations to all! 🎶🐦

Recording in 3... 2... 1... I've been invited to be a guest on the #WarblersPodcast, the official podcast of @birdscanada.bsky.social, and we're recording this morning!

Thank you, Dan, for your kind words and for the overview of my time working with you in the Mennill Lab and at the University of Windsor. This time has a special place in my heart and in my academic career. 🎶🐦

Dan, I can't imagine a better postdoctoral experience than the one I had with you, my colleagues, and collaborators in the Mennill Lab at UWindsor. My time in Canada became even more special after 3 years of studying birds, songs, and calls. I am excited for our future collaborations. 🔊🎶🐦🇨🇦🇨🇷

Today I had the pleasure to talk about multi-modal signalling in tropical wrens in Dr. Hannah ter Hofstede's Animal Communication class @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social. Thank you for the invitation Hannah. [📷 @nelsyninor.bsky.social]