Female song, female vocal tutoring of eggs, female vocal tutoring of fledglings, and how to survive parasites. The wonder of birds!
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Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
23 Oct 2023
A new study by @BirdLabFlinders from @KLF_UniVienna (@univienna) finds that #nestling begging calls resemble maternal vocal signatures when mothers call slowly to embryos. Read the publication via @ASNAmNat here: ⤵
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Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
9 Mar 2023
When will #fairywrens take risks to defend others under threat from a predator? Turns out their complex multilevel #sociality explains this. Read all about it in Current Biology: authors.elsevier.com/c/1gjL1…
9 Mar 2023
Degrees of separation determine wren risk-taking 🐦🚧: Superb fairy-wrens are more likely to assist birds from their social circles than strangers, an international study led by @MonashBiol’s PhD candidate @Ecamerlenghi and Prof @AP_BirdBehavEco has shown: bit.ly/3YtsL9r
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11 Mar 2023
Congrats to Andrew Katsis and team for another exciting contribution testing effects of prenatal sound exposure on behaviour in zebra finches! authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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2 Jan 2023
Fairywren personality research makes the news in Austria! Best wishes for a good new year to all. diepresse.com/6232799/unters…
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15 Oct 2022
Using genomics to understand a parasite. Congratulations Lauren Common on the last chapter of your PhD journey. Well done! doi.org/10.1007/s10530-022-0…
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8 Oct 2022
The fairy-wrens continue to inspire! Superb fairy-wrens with extreme exploration phenotypes respond more st... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
30 Sep 2022
Does personality measured in captivity predict a bird's predator response in the wild?
Congratulations to @bilby_jack on publishing his undergrad research project in @thePeerJ.
This is the first in a series of fairy-wren personality papers from our lab.
peerj.com/articles/14011/
ALT A superb fairy-wren observes its mirror image inside a flight cage, during a mirror stimulation test to measure its aggressiveness. © Flinders University BirdLab
ALT A superb fairy-wren perches on branch. A superb fairy-wren observes its mirror image inside a flight cage, during a mirror stimulation test to measure its aggressiveness. © Andrew Katsis
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Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
7 Oct 2022
Pleased to announce Paper #2 in our series on fairy-wren personality, published in 'Animal Behaviour'.
Birds with extreme exploration phenotypes responded more aggressively to simulated territory intrusions. Group status & social context also important.
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29 May 2022
The beak of a Darwin's finch, malformed by burrowing larvae of the avian vampire fly. We report on ecological consequences of early life parasitism. Thanks to the fabulous team, and artwork by PhD student Lauren Common. Paper: doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14…
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Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
12 May 2022
#DiversityMDPI, New publication"Interspecific Competition and Vertical Niche Partitioning in Fiji’s #Forest #Birds " at the link: mdpi.com/1424-2818/14/3/223
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PhD student Alivereti Naikatini publishes an important paper on the birds of Fiji! (the photo was taken during his visit to Adelaide) Avian diversity and abundance across years: consistent patterns in forests but not grasslands on Viti Levu, Fiji publish.csiro.au/pc/PC21039
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Emu Austral Ornithology: the value of ornithological research for conservation tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
Super proud to be part of this project! @femalebirdsong @FairywrenProj @ke_cain @MichelleLHall6 @ErikEnbody @JonesJA91 @jkphenomenon @JenelleLDowling @M_Araya_Salas @BirdLabFlinders @LyanneBrouwer (et. al with no twitter?) @Ecol_Evol onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
11 Dec 2021
Correlates of song evolution in male AND FEMALE fairywrens! Great stuff from @femalebirdsong @MichelleLHall6 @ErikEnbody @JonesJA91 @JenelleLDowling @FairywrenProj and others. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
15 Dec 2021
New paper out about female in-nest attendance predicting the number of ectoparasites in Darwin’s finch species.
@BirdLabFlinders @fliesthenest @andrew_katsis @NMadreani @rdudaniec @univienna @RSocPublishing
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Female in-nest attendance predicts the number of ectoparasites in Darwin's finch species | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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15 Dec 2021
Our new paper -- many years of nest observations went into this one. How the little finches that amazed Darwin battle a vampire fly nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
6 Dec 2021
New paper this week: KLF researchers Sonia Kleindorfer (@birdlabflinders) and Petra Sumasgutner (@pesumas), with PhD student Lauren Common (@fliesthenest), publish their findings on causes of nest mortality in the critically endangered Medium Tree Finch.
mdpi.com/2673-6004/2/4/32/pd…
6 Dec 2021
So thrilled to be involved in this paper with @BirdLabFlinders and @PeSumas on the nesting success critically endangered, Floreana Island-endemic Medium Tree Finch, published in a special issue of @Birds_MDPI mdpi.com/2673-6004/2/4/32
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7 Dec 2021
Sharing not such good news: Medium Tree Finch being killed by introduced predators and parasites. But, we will keep monitoring after planned predator eradication in 2023. Hopefully good news thereafter!
Birds 2021, 2(4), 427-444; doi.org/10.3390/birds2040032
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Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
21 Nov 2021
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