Billy Bray
@billybray.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the Australian National University studying the conservation of regent honeyeater song culture
Excellent news that the annual #regenthoneyeater release started yesterday! In the midst of a significant eucalypt blossom event in the Hunter Valley and with many of these birds having received song tutoring, hopefully we will see some of them breeding soon!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Zoo-bred birds released to save one of Australia's rarest species
Dozens of regent honeyeaters have been released in woodlands in the NSW Hunter Valley in an effort to boost the critically endangered population.
www.abc.net.au
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Excellent news that the annual #regenthoneyeater release started yesterday! In the midst of a significant eucalypt blossom event in the Hunter Valley and with many of these birds having received song tutoring, hopefully we will see some of them breeding soon!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
A bit of a different setting for this one (I’m not joining the priesthood yet) but it was a great honour to talk about my project at the #CanberraBirds meeting on Wednesday night. @sramellini.bsky.social also gave an awesome presentation on his fairywren sociality study!
📸 @franhckr.bsky.social
📸 @franhckr.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM
A bit of a different setting for this one (I’m not joining the priesthood yet) but it was a great honour to talk about my project at the #CanberraBirds meeting on Wednesday night. @sramellini.bsky.social also gave an awesome presentation on his fairywren sociality study!
📸 @franhckr.bsky.social
📸 @franhckr.bsky.social
Reposted by Billy Bray
This review explores the loss of vocal culture in wild birds, synthesizes how this loss may occur and discusses the potential to conserve avian vocal cultures in the wild and in captivity: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #PhilTransB #conservation
May 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This review explores the loss of vocal culture in wild birds, synthesizes how this loss may occur and discusses the potential to conserve avian vocal cultures in the wild and in captivity: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #PhilTransB #conservation
A bit late to the party but I’m very happy to have been involved in this review of avian vocal culture conservation!
It’s just one of many amazing reviews in Phil. Trans. B’s new special issue on animal culture and conservation.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
It’s just one of many amazing reviews in Phil. Trans. B’s new special issue on animal culture and conservation.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Conserving avian vocal culture | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Over 40% of bird species learn their vocalizations from conspecifics. Avian vocalizations
therefore represent one of the most pervasive and quantifiable examples of culturally
acquired behaviour that ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
May 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
A bit late to the party but I’m very happy to have been involved in this review of avian vocal culture conservation!
It’s just one of many amazing reviews in Phil. Trans. B’s new special issue on animal culture and conservation.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
It’s just one of many amazing reviews in Phil. Trans. B’s new special issue on animal culture and conservation.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Good news! Preventing the extinction of the regent honeyeater will not be possible without multiple conservation actions working together. Habitat restoration is one crucial piece of the puzzle!
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Farmers, conservationists cheer after 750,000 trees planted to help save threatened native bird
Since the Regent Honeyeater Project kicked off in the 1990s, tens of thousands of volunteers have helped to regenerate farmland in order to help save the critically endangered species.
www.abc.net.au
December 3, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Good news! Preventing the extinction of the regent honeyeater will not be possible without multiple conservation actions working together. Habitat restoration is one crucial piece of the puzzle!
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Reposted by Billy Bray
Targeted nest predator management and zoo-bred supplementation in a Regent Honeyeater (Anthochaera phrygia) breeding event | www.tandfonline.com/... | Emu | #ornithology 🪶
November 29, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Targeted nest predator management and zoo-bred supplementation in a Regent Honeyeater (Anthochaera phrygia) breeding event | www.tandfonline.com/... | Emu | #ornithology 🪶