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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 5d

Motus Audio recorders are now set up at Birds Canada headquarters in Port Rowan and at Old Cut Research Station at Longpoint Bird Observatory. Which bird species will we record flying southwards this fall? @birdscanada.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social [📷 N. Emerick & M. Bygrove]

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 16d

It's "Birds and Reptiles Week" in the International Master's of Bioacoustics program. This week we're on campus at Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne. Today we had great lectures and workshops from Profs. Nicolas Mathevon, Ole Larsen, and Magnus Wahlberg. @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 19d

Our week of field-based learning has finished with a beautiful sunset, a campfire lecture, and a starry night. And a shockingly hard acoustic quiz. Can you differentiate a screaming deer, a creaking door, and a shrieking Nazgul? Next week: bird & reptile week on campus. @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social

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Behavioral Ecology and Endocrinology Lab @behavecol-lab.bsky.social · 19d

Please share!🙏
🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain
The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 23d

Sarah Dobney presented her doctoral studies at the International Bioacoustics Congress #ibac2025 in Kerteminde, Denmark. Way to go @sdobney.bsky.social!

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 28d

We've launched a Motus Audio Recorder on Pelee Island! Natalie, Madison, and Nelsy launched our 10th recorder, which will survey migratory birds passing over Pelee Island this fall.
@ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @birdscanada.bsky.social @peleeislandbird.bsky.social

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Sarah Dobney @sdobney.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you so much!

Sarah Dobney @sdobney.bsky.social · 28d

I've been loving the talks and posters being presented at #IBAC2025! Come see my poster today to learn about the "Songs of the studs" 🎤🐦🪺 @dmennill.bsky.social

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yay bioacousticians all around! <3 Come see me at the #IBAC session tomorrow - or anytime for coffee/bikes!

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · Jul 30

"UWindsor students co-author scientific paper after immersive Paris field course." Today's campus newsletter has a write-up about our new paper, arising from our field course on Bird Song and Anthropogenic Noise. 🇫🇷🎶🐦 Check it out: www.uwindsor.ca/news/2025-07...

UWindsor students co-author scientific paper after immersive Paris field course

By Sara Elliott “The field course was a pivotal point in my academic journey because if not for my study abroad experience, I genuinely would not be in this lab and I wouldn’t be d...

www.uwindsor.ca

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Birds Canada @birdscanada.bsky.social · Jul 21

The latest issue of Avian Conservation and Ecology (ACE) is out now!

Volume 20, Issue 1 features a variety of captivating bird research papers, including a new study co-authored by Danielle Ethier, Senior Scientist at Birds Canada.

Dive into this study and more at avianconservationecology.org

A landscape photo of a boreal forest. Overlay text reads "The challenge: We don’t know how birds are doing in much of the boreal forest because it’s too hard to survey in these remote regions."

A Blackpoll Warbler perches on a branch. Overlay text reads "A new window: Because monitoring programs rarely reach the far north, boreal bird migration in the spring and fall offers a way to track their populations using migration data from bird observatory counts."

A Blackpoll Warbler sings from a tree. Overlay text reads "An innovative method: Using the Blackpoll Warbler as a case study, researchers combined migration counts with feather isotopes. The feather chemistry helped reveal the origins of the birds, while migration counts provided insights into the changes in their populations."

A landscape shot of the Blackpoll Warbler's habitat. Overlay text reads: "The big picture: This approach will help us protect more species by identifying where conservation is most urgently needed."

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Lincoln Savi @lincolnsavi.bsky.social · Jul 18

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · Jul 15

Our new paper is out: "Avian biodiversity in the urban green spaces of Paris: higher bird species richness in larger parks and park centers". Co-authored with 14 UWindsor students from a Study Abroad field course. In Avian Conservation & Ecology: ace-eco.org/vol20/iss2/a...
Here's our story...
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Photograph of a group of University of Windsor students on a Study Abroad field course in Paris, France. We're giving the "thumbs up" next to a Song Meter we used to record birds in urban parks. Superimposed over the photo: the title of our new paper in the journal Avian Conservation and Ecology: "Avian biodiversity in the urban green spaces of Paris: higher bird species richness in larger parks and park centers."

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · Jul 9

Savannah Sparrow song and Ovenbird song is the focus from our team today at #CSEE2025:
At 8:45 "Song of the Studs" by Sarah Dobney in Behav Ecol 1.
At 11:30 "Clamorous and Amorous" by Connor Acorn in Behav Ecol 2.
@csee-scee.bsky.social @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social @sdobney.bsky.social

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · Jul 8

What's all the buzz about? Today at 10:30 in the Avian Ecology session of #CSEE2025, our newest team member, Natalie Emerick, will present her research on bat and aerial insectivore acoustics (coauthors Hannah ter Hofstede and Liam O'Leary).
@csee-scee.bsky.social @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · Jul 7

It's a big day for our team at #CSEE2025:
At 14:00 join @jaclynaubin.bsky.social in room Sherbrooke C for her talk on St. Lawrence Beluga bioacoustics.
At 16:30 join me in room Lac Memphrémagog for my talk on a global horizon scan of bioacoustics.
@csee-scee.bsky.social @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · Jul 4

Our team has prepared four talks for the upcoming #CSEE2025 meeting in Sherbrooke next week. I'm excited about the new projects we're going to share. See you in Quebec! 🎤🎶🐦🐋🇨🇦
@csee-scee.bsky.social @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

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ANU Superb Fairywren Project @fairywrensanu.bsky.social · Jun 24

Earlier this season we said goodbye to GBB. Born in 2014, she was one of the oldest and most productive females in our population:
35 nests, 80 eggs, 47 chicks fledged, 35 reached independence, 24 grandkids. This female below has now taken over her territory. Big 🐾 to fill!
#SFW_ANU #birds #ecology

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · Jun 23

We've just won two grants! Both are under embargo, but some exciting plans will now come to fruition for bioacoustic studies of wild birds and whales in Canada and beyond. With my awesome collaborators @jaclynaubin.bsky.social @ryannorrissci.bsky.social and S. Doucet.

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · Jun 17

How loud is a sparrow? Our new project involves measuring the amplitude of Savannah Sparrow songs.
This is a team investigation with @jaclynaubin.bsky.social, @sdobney.bsky.social, @nelsyninor.bsky.social, M. Bygrove, N. Emerick, and our sparrow collaborators, with funding from NSERC.

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · Jun 16

Our 2025 Savannah Sparrow research team in the field. What a pleasure to work alongside these field ornithologists at Bowdoin Scientific Station! @ryannorrissci.bsky.social @sdobney.bsky.social

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Sarah Dobney @sdobney.bsky.social · Jun 13

Farewell Kent Island! With an A+ Savannah Sparrow team I helped record songs of 34 males, find 36 nests, and colour band 29 adults & 18 nestlings! More to come as the season finishes. Sad to leave, but thankful to be part of this [email protected] @ryannorrissci.bsky.social #ornithology

Savannah sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis)

Recording Savannah Sparrows with a Marantz PMD661 recorder and a parabolic reflector. Photo by Dan Mennill.

Savannah Sparrow nest with four nestlings

Measuring bill depth of a Savannah Sparrow during colour banding. All banding with permits. Photo by Dan Mennill.

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · Jun 8

My chapbook, Savannah Sparrow, has made it to the library at the Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island. Kent Island is the origin of the ideas I explore in this essay on vocal learning in wild birds.

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American Birding Association @aba.org · Jun 5

On this week's American Birding Podcast: An interesting study discussed on the monthly This Month in Birding segment led us to Miranda Zemmerelli, a PhD student at Dartmouth University.

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · Jun 5

Our acoustic search for threatened Leach's Storm-Petrels in the Bay of Fundy has begun! 🎤🐦🇨🇦
Supported by NSERC and New Brunswick Wildlife Trust Fund. @ingridpollet.bsky.social @sdobney.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

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