🚨New paper alert 🚨
High temperatures lead to an impaired anti-predator mobbing response to five callers in wild great tits!
Loved working on this paper with an all star team of scientists! @dutourmylene.bsky.social @camillasoravia.bsky.social @mandyridley.bsky.social
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Congrats to @stephaniellaura.bsky.social, who headed our latest research showing that social interactions have a major influence on the development of the complex call sequences that young magpies learn! As well as the below paper link, here is the media release:
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Our review of the impact of multiple anthropogenic stressors on avian behaviour and cognition was the most downloaded paper in the Journal of Avian Biology 2025! @camillasoravia.bsky.social @gblackburn.bsky.social
Congrats to Ed for completing the final part of his excellent PhD: his exit seminar! Well done Ed for all your hard work and achievements over the last four years of research! 🥳🎉🎓
Congrats to @gblackburn.bsky.social for this study showing that’s it’s not just anthropogenic noise, but the level (amplitude) of anthropogenic noise that is important, in terms of impact on behaviour.
Many species benefit from the ability to discern the number of individuals calling in an anti-predator mobbing event, as more individuals likely reduces th
Congrats to Ed Galluccio on the first paper from his PhD, showing that associative learning score is related to the antipredator response and associative learning score declines under heat stress. However, heat stress does not impact the cognition-antipredator relationship.
Young magpies learn how to create complex calls in much the same way human children learn to turn sounds into words and words into sentences.
New paper out now looking at how different amplitudes of anthropogenic noise affect the behaviour of urban living magpies! This work highlights the importance of considering how variation in noise may differentially impact wildlife.
@mandyridley.bsky.social
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🚨 Top-downloaded 2024/25: review about the potential additive, synergistic, or antagonistic effects of rising temperatures and anthropogenic noise on avian behaviour and cognition.
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#ornithology #birds #cognition #noise #rising_temperatures
Congratulations 🎓 to Ed Galluccio for delivering a fantastic overview of his PhD project covering how ontogenetic and environmental impact shapes cognition in wild magpies 🥂
@mandyridley.bsky.social @dutourmylene.bsky.social
Mandy Ridley
Young magpies learn to combine calls into "sentences" much like human toddlers: through listening to family and friends!
Now available to read at @royalsocietypublishing.org
@mandyridley.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social @ceb-uwa.bsky.social
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Many thanks to @gblackburn.bsky.social for taking this on so that it could come to fruition!
Anthropogenic noise can vary greatly in several properties, including timing, frequency and amplitude. However, many studies have historically focused on the effects of high amplitude noise, even t...
So happy to see this come to print after life took over & there was a delay btw data collection and writing up! We conduct an experimental test of central place foraging theory & ask how provisioning/distance trade-offs might differ in a cooperative breeder.
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Grace Blackburn
Congrats to @alexalaman.bsky.social for leading this paper using 38 years of data to investigate climate impacts on survival & reprod success of Arabian babblers in natural vs modified habitat. We found modified habitats buffered climate impacts: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
