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@birdsonglab.bsky.social
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David Logue's lab at the University of Lethbridge. We study bird song from an evolutionary perspective. Our main interests are interactive communication, song repertoires, and vocal performance.

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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
These visualizers just keep getting cooler and cooler! www.reddit.com/r/birds/comm...
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From the birds community on Reddit: Birds sounding like they are from space
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Come join us -- it's a great place to work! uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/9242
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Faculty of Arts & Science - Assistant Professor (Psychology)
The Department of Psychology invites applications for a Tenure-Track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin 1st July 2027, subject to budgetary approval. Hiring salary will be in the ran...
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Congratulations to lab member Xinyue Chen who coauthored this great new paper on vocal performance with Drs. Jill Soha and Rindy Anderson! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Trill performance in a large-repertoire songbird with high song sharing, the Bachman’s sparrow - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Trilled syllables in bird song are of particular interest for their potential to communicate singing ability and thus singer quality. One reason for this is that trills require high consistency of per...
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Many New World warblers sing duets — but nobody knew why. Krause et al. used radio telemetry to show that Adelaide’s warbler pairs duet to defend their territory, supporting the idea that duets function as cooperative signals. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Dustin Reichard @juncowren.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
My department is hiring a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor for next year to teach in our Intro Sequence! The deadline (May 15) is getting close. The job would be excellent for someone interested in teaching at a small college. Please RT! www.owu.edu/about/office...
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Job Openings
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Our new paper describes song type sharing, matching, and collective themes in Adelaide's warbler dawn chorus communication networks. It's part of a special issue on animal communication networks. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... #animalcommunication #communicationnetworks #birdsong
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I just received this lovely letter signed, "Voz Londy." I searched the name and found dozens of examples of people receiving beautiful handwritten letters from this person. What a human! #randomactsofkindness #vozlondy #ecuatorialguinea
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The Birdsong Lab is recruiting graduate students to study vocal communication in tropical birds. The deadline to apply is less than a week away! #birds #birdsong #ornithology #animalbehavior #BirdsCanada #AcademicSky #SciComm
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Want to learn conservation genetics from an international team of experts? The 30th iteration of the intensive, hands-on ConGen course will be in Brazil this year. congenglobal.org/brazil2026/
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ConGen 2026 – ConGen Global
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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
For the 2026 ABS Meeting, the Latin America Affairs Committee invites all ABS members to submit lightning talk proposals for the special session Gadgets, Inventos, and Gambiarras: Creative, Budget-friendly DIY Research Methods in Animal Behavior!
A flyer announcing the special session.
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
In many tropical birds, both male and female sing. The sexes may sound similar or different, but AFAIK, the black-bellied wren is the only species where the sexes have "opposite" song structures. The high costs of incorrect sex recognition may have driven the evolution of sexually antithetical song.
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
How can we figure out the rules duetting birds use to coordinate their songs? The answer slapped me in the face when a black-bellied wren duetted with my playback (Logue 2006, 2007)! See complementary studies by Karla Rivera-Cáceres (development), Eric Fortune, and Melissa Coleman (mechanisms).
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MPI for Biological Intelligence @mpiforbi.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Nightingales are masters of imitation! New research shows: During territorial contests, a male matches a rival’s song in real time by tracking and imitating both, pitch and syllable duration. This shows a remarkable precision in hearing and vocal control. 🔗More: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2026-01-vallentin
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The Birdsong Lab is recruiting graduate students! Links in the comments. Please repost!
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Why do mated songbirds sing beautifully coordinated duets? My Ph.D. work showed that duets are cooperative signals that pairs use to defend their shared territory. This visual summary is based on Logue & Gammon 2004 Animal Behaviour 68: 521-531 and Logue 2005 Cognition, Brain, Behavior 9:497-510.
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Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I am recruiting postbacs for my parakeet sociality and cognition project, ideally to start in Feb/Mar this year. Help spreading the word would be appreciated! More information and application link available here: ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/s...
Graphical ad showing Hobson Lab Postbac position: parakeet sociality and cognition, with a graphic showing a flock of monk parakeets flying towards a social network, two unmarked monk parakeets perched, and examples of our individually color-marked birds showing their dye marks and color codes
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I made this infographic celebrating Bill Cade's scientific legacy with NotebookLM. Citations are Cade 1975, Zuk et al. 2006, Logue et al. 2010.
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
My postdoc superviser, Bill Cade, has passed away. One evening in the early 1970s, Bill broadcast cricket songs to attract females. Instead, he noticed strange yellow flies buzzing around the loudspeakers. Thus was discovered the now-famous acoustically-orienting parasitoid, Ormia ochracea.
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
A visual summary of Peter and Juley's new open access paper in Ibis. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
How do birds use song to communicate about aggressive interactions? Many studies use playback to address this question, but playback studies may not be perfect simulations of real interactions. In this study, we ask how song structure and singing behaviour change around the time of natural fights.
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We're happy because we were discussing this great new paper by Volle et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I'm stoked to see's new YouTube channel, "Birdbrain Q&A" www.youtube.com/@BirdbrainQA...
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Birdbrain Q&A
Q&A sessions for the bird-curious. . . where no question is too flighty. Hosted by ornithologist Lauryn Benedict and author Pam Moore. Produced and edited by Jill Dugan.
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Apply for funding to support Animal Behaviour-related conferences in Latin America. fs10.formsite.com/spltrak/fneb... #animalbehavior #ABS
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ABS Latin American Conferences & Travel Support Request
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Nick Bohle, Tanya Martinez, and I are making a movie! Shout out to our amazing collaborators at Almodóvar Photography and Ansonia Records. @birdcalloftheday.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @parksbabel.bsky.social #bioacoustic #birdsong #birds #PuertoRico
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Our new paper is a deep dive into the pros and cons of double quantile regression for estimating performance limits. academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
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On the use of double quantile regression and visual assessment to estimate performance constraints
Double quantile regression (DQR) is a statistical method used to estimate constraints on animal performance, but it has some important limitations. We expl
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Here's an upgraded version of the dawn chorus visualization I posted the other day. It now plays the songs in real time, and makes song type matches more conspicuous. Leave your suggestions in the comments!
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Exited about our first dynamic map of Adelaide's warblers' dawn chorus! Males sing many song types (colors & numbers) from the tops of tall trees in their territories. Here, you can see how they match one anothers' song types, causing songs 8, 3, 9, 21, and 5 to spread around the neighbourhood.
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Excited to be in Poland, giving a series of talks at the University of Warsaw! Today I'll talk about reseach old (duets) and new (dawn chorus). Tomorrow, it's how to make your academic slides slightly less boring 😄 #Ornithology #Birdsong #ScienceCommunication #FieldworkAbroad #AcademicLife
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Congratulations to Oluwatosin Ogundimu (in stripes) for successfully defending her master's thesis, "Song type preferences during the dawn chorus in male Adelaide's warblers"! (🧵 1 / 5)
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
New paper alert! Community algorithms reveal song type themes in Adelaide’s warbler song type sequence networks (🧵 1 /5) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Community algorithms reveal song type themes in Adelaide’s warbler song type sequence networks
Some New World Warblers (Family: Parulidae) sing with immediate variety during the dawn chorus and eventual variety during daytime song. We used network analysis, including a community clustering a...
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
US-based Michelle Moyers and Kevin Omland collaborated with local students and scientists for this study of male and female song in Puerto Rican orioles. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Acoustic Features, Syllable Usage, and Song Rates of Male and Female Songs in a Tropical Island Songbird, the Puerto Rican Oriole
Seven of the eight acoustic measurements for Puerto Rican Oriole songs differed significantly between males and females (indicated by *, all except percent pause), Though male means differed signific...
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
@juleyvc.bsky.social and I spoke about our recent research on Adelaide's warbler with students and community members from Roots and Shoots Puerto Rico. Video is in Spanish www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVTc...
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"Descifrando el comportamiento de la reinita mariposera a través de su canto"
YouTube video by Roots & Shoots Puerto Rico
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I usually write about the science of bird song and keep the spiritual side to myself. But when Psyche asked me to write about "listening deeply to birdsong," I went to my favorite coffee shop and poured out 2000 words on meditation and bird song. psyche.co/ideas/learn-...
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Learn to tune into birdsong – respite and fascination await | Psyche Ideas
Listening deeply to the sounds of birds is a powerful form of meditation and a first step towards a rewarding new hobby
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Lab members Juley Vazquez-Cardona and Peter Mower taught a Bioacoustics workshop at the University of Puerto Rico's campuses in Ponce and Mayaguez. #Bioacoustica #Bioacoustics
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
The Birdsong Lab at the University of Lethbridge is seeking 1-2 motivated graduate students to join us starting in Fall 2025. Funding is available. (a🧵1 /6)
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
The Birdsong Lab made the local news! (clip starts at 4:30) globalnews.ca/lethbridge/p...
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Global News at 5 | Global News
Lethbridge's top local news stories, and latest weather forecast.
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
Una oportunidad para financiar servicios de traducción profesionales para autores latinoamericanos que tengan manuscritos casi listos y que quieran traducirlos o revisar el inglés: nabci-us.org/stork-grants...
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STORK Grants (Español) - NABCI
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
Birdsong Lab undergrad Heath Petkau is featured in the U of L's Shining Student campaign. stories.ulethbridge.ca/shining-stud... Keep on shinin' Heath!
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Shining Student Heath Petkau
Engaging in three co-op work terms and an applied study, Heath Petkau thrived in Dr. David Logue's Birdsong Lab where he excelled in the immersive nature of the research.
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
The Animal Behavior Society offers awards for (1) North Americans to travel to Latin America to participate in special courses or workshops and (2) Latin Americans to hold conferences in Latin America. Application deadline for both awards is June 1. Link below.
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The Animal Behavior Society
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
This AMAZING workshop for BIPOC graduate student in Animal Behavior is entirely FREE to students from any country. English - Spanish translation will be available. Please retweet! #AnimalBehavior #DiversifyingSTEM
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
One of the most creative labs working on the behavioral ecology of bird song has an opening for a Ph.D. student. www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
  Friend of the lab and Purdue University professor Dr. Ximena Bernal will be hosting undergraduates for a research experience this summer (NSF-funded REU). All the details about this excellent opportunity can be found here: bernal-lab.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/...
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Ph.D. student Juley Vazquez-Cardona and her crew are studying Adelaide's warblers in the non-breeding season. Is vocal performance lower than in the breeding season? Is it true that females are more aggressive and even sing at this time of year? Time to find out!
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
Excited to speak about our communication network research at the University of Northern Colorado!
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