Female song, female vocal tutoring of eggs, female vocal tutoring of fledglings, and how to survive parasites. The wonder of birds!
Adelaide, South Australia
Joined April 2015
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Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
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: ⤵
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
#Biology
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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…
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
Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
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
Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
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.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ft6S…
Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
#DiversityMDPI, New publication"Interspecific Competition and Vertical Niche Partitioning in Fiji’s #Forest #Birds " at the link: mdpi.com/1424-2818/14/3/223
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/…
Correlates of song evolution in male AND FEMALE fairywrens! Great stuff from @femalebirdsong @MichelleLHall6 @ErikEnbody @JonesJA91 @JenelleLDowling @FairywrenProj and others. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
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
royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
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…
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
Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
New paper published on Darwin's Finches and Avian Vampire Flies @SciReports with Lauren Common as lead author @BirdLabFlinders nature.com/articles/s41598-0… Invasive parasite Philornis downsi has highest mortality in hybrid tree finch nests #research #hostparasite #evolution #Galápagos
Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
Mainwaring et al. (2021) Sex-specific contributions to #nestbuilding in birds @BehavEcol bit.ly/3fh6gRt | @cowbirdlab | #ornithology
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Our latest on zebra finches in ovo by @NickAntonson @Mortikui @BirdLabFlinders @MikusAbolins and WC Liu: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
New paper in Urban Bird special issue @ostrichJAO by @PeSumas @kiwi_sjc & T Risi showing higher body mass in RW starlings with more built-up home ranges and on high human presence days #urbanbirds #ornithology tandfonline.com/eprint/TR7SA… Free download!
Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
13 fully funded #phdpositions in Behavioural & Cognitive Biology. Wide range of topics & supervising teams includes Thomas Bugnyar's #Raven #research group
Further information on the
CoBeNe website vds-cobene.univie.ac.at, & the
octoral Program website: cogcom.univie.ac.at
Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
New paper out
Officially published on the issue from February of @SBNTweets !! The rufous #hornero makes it to the cover again! So proud... 🇦🇷 national bird 🍘🐥
Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
We will soon move to the new KLF building! We are looking forward to more space for offices, labs and seminar rooms as well as accommodation for students.
@univienna #cumberlandwildparkgrünau #landoberösterreich
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Also. The EMITTER'S IDENTITY was important for some calls. Th auditory responses changed only towards calls from birds that were known to the receivers!!
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Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
How can this happen? The hormone estrogen is known to affect the brain's secondary auditory area NCM. When checking the hormone levels of the birds, ONLY FEMALES increased their estrogen levels levels. Possibly this plays a role.
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Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
Finally this study was inspired in cool research from people like Andrew Bass, @HealeyLab , Barney Schlinger, @CarasLab, Frèderic Theunissen, @GaboMindlin, and many others!
@maxplanckphdnet
Link 👉 bit.ly/2ZFaudi
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Sonia Kleindorfer retweeted
Did you know that breeding changes hearing? A thread.
In a species with a complex repertoire, life-stage dependent #AuditoryPlasticity is signal and emitter specific.
Longitudinal study from my PhD work.
Link 👉 bit.ly/2ZFaudi
Yeah, zebra finches🐥
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