Birder | Research Associate at Swiss Ornithological Institute @vogelwarte.bsky.social
Interested in the evolution of bird movements and how they can influence evolutionary processes
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Paul Dufour
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#NewPaperAlert! This one has a massive author list and has been a LONG time in coming, but is SO COOL! First, check out the first figure to get you interested! Manakins! Fruit! Sexual-selection in action (displays and Z:A chromosomal diversity)! Read on for the back story & link
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And the star of the show: the Richard’s Pipit (Anthus richardi). We searched for the species along the Russian border, near where the birds that winter in Europe are breeding. Let’s see whether they all go east or west.
An Eastern Common Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos golzii) from yesterday, NE Kazakhstan. What a strange looking bird!
w/ @pdvsky.bsky.social
Alice Boyle
Paul Dufour
Two Siberian Rubythroats (Calliope calliope) from yesterday, E Kazakhstan. Tagged with multi-sensor geolocators for @wielandheim.bsky.social project. w/ @pdvsky.bsky.social
Happy to see my PhD work on birdsong complexity published today! doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🐦⬛ 🎶 ⬇️
Why are some birdsongs simple and some extremely complex? The answer is long thought to be ‘sexual selection favouring complex signals’. But - really?
Excellent opportunity here: a 5 year senior research fellowship in Life Sciences (broadly defined) at All Souls College Oxford. Many opportunities to work with the diverse & inclusive community here in @biology.ox.ac.uk here in the brand new Life & Mind Buiilding
www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...
Paul Dufour
The Banter See breeding season in numbers so far: 226 males and 210 females (aged 2 - 25) have been registered, 319 clutches have been produced, 257 chicks have hatched, 93 blood samples have been collected and 48 birds have been caught for our geolocator-project.
Abstract. Acoustic signal complexity varies widely in animals, from single notes to highly sophisticated vocal displays. In birds, vocal complexity can evo
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How to force a @nature.com retraction and get zero credit for it. A short thread on "invisible correctors" and bibliographic erasure in top-tier journals. 🧵
Read the full behind-the-scenes story at @retractionwatch.com below.
Our preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#OpenScience #ZebraFinch
New paper in @pnas.org - using playback experiments we provide further evidence that bottlenose dolphins can use individual identity signals + social memory to guide decision-making.
Female dolphins use individual vocal labels to track coercive males | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation.
https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq
Jingyi Yang
Ben Sheldon
A zebra finch in New South Wales, Australia. Source: JJ Harrison/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Researchers who flagged methodological issues in a paper on birdsong a year and a half before Natur…
