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auersperga.bsky.social
Goffins being social in Singapur - enjoying fieldwork with @theroesa.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I love seeing natural parrot foraging behavior 😍
auersperga.bsky.social Alice Auersperg @auersperga.bsky.social · Sep 11
Goffins like challenges...feeding upside down. Enjoying fieldwork in Singapore with @theroesa.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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auersperga.bsky.social
Long John, the one-eyed Goffin is a large and rather dominant male in one of the Singapore groups. He has no trouble navigating through the canopy or strategically displacing pigeons from his feeding places. We think he is beautiful! - pics from Singapore with @theroesa.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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witmerlab.bsky.social
Highly recommended! I just finished a cover-to-cover read, and it's a great addition to the avian sensory ecology literature with excellent discussions of the links between brain & behavior. I prefer reading paper books (better retention) but the whole thing is freely downloadable! bit.ly/482xPZm 🦉🧠
"Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis" book by Georg Striedter & Andrew Iwaniuk, surrounded by birds skulls and 3D printed brain endocasts of, from left, ostrich, golden eagle, African grey parrot, American crow, and wild turkey. The pale turquoise endocast is that of a New Caledonian crow.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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explanimals.bsky.social
Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is now published!

Kea but not cockatoos are susceptible to a bait-and-switch magic trick. And check out that thermal imaging! ❤️‍🔥

royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
December 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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theroesa.bsky.social
Excited to share our newly published study on object neophobia and how it relates to problem-solving in #GoffinsCockatoos #TanimbarCorella!

@auersperga.bsky.social @mohara.bsky.social @bmioduszewska.bsky.social @plosone.org

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Seizing opportunities: Object neophobia as a factor mediating technical innovation in Goffin´s cockatoos?
Most studies find substantial inter-individual differences in problem-solving performance within a species, which can drastically influence an individual´s fitness. It has been suggested that innovati...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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themanybirds.bsky.social
🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology:
“A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.”
Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia
Neophobia (the aversive response to novelty) varies considerably across species and individuals, and can impact adaptability and survival. This study assesses neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 bird ...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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ckecz.bsky.social
🐦‍⬛🔊 How do phylogeny, morphology and ecological factors affect the structure of the #corvids vocalizations? 🤔

➡️ Find out in our new paper 🤩

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Corvidae #AlarmCalls #Morphology #Phylogeny #Ecology #Bioacoustics #AnimalCognition #NewPaper
Acoustic variation in alarm calls of Corvidae–effect of morphology, ecology and phylogeny - Animal Cognition
Bioacoustic parameters of vocalization are generally well adapted to the environment that the species inhabits and are influenced by the morphology and life history of the species. These effects are f...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Repost if you like birds.
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February 9, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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Diabetics rationing insulin. Jaundiced babies missing appointments. Appendicitis festering untreated for days. Expectant mothers laboring in hiding.

Minnesota doctors say the immigration crackdown is forcing patients to hide, endangering lives. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/20/m...
Minnesota doctors say immigration crackdown is forcing patients to hide, endangering lives • Minnesota Reformer
Minnesota doctors say the immigration crackdown is forcing patients to hide, endangering lives.  Diabetics rationing insulin. Jaundiced babies missing appointments. Appendicitis festering untreated fo...
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January 21, 2026 at 3:39 PM
I stand with Palestine. 🇵🇸
October 19, 2023 at 9:17 PM
21 Species Declared Extinct
www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1...
October 19, 2023 at 9:17 PM
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folklorepod.bsky.social
Author copies of my next book have arrived. You can pre order now from

www.thefolklorepodcast.com/store/p178/T...

and be one of the first to get it
September 11, 2023 at 8:55 PM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
Let's talk eels & colonization!

In the early 17th C. London was growing fast and needed more eels.The surrounding countryside couldn't provide enough.

The Dutch importers could...but the English were nervous of the strong Dutch monopoly.

So where did they look? Ireland. 1/5 🧪🗃️
Meme. Photograph of a Monopoly board game in Dutch. You're looking at the starting corner, seeing 2 squares in either direction. The board is edged in red, but fear not. It's only red paint, not blood. A blood-edged board would be a far darker shade of red. And a far darker game, over all. Meme text reads: "Who wouldn't be Nervous?
September 13, 2023 at 3:39 PM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
Let's talk about eels & dams. 'Cause dams are a problem for eels now, but they haven't always been.

Eels can live out of water for a while, & travel overland. Young eels climb up & around small waterfalls as they migrate. And so many medieval dams weren't a problem for them. 1/7
Meme. Painting of two eels in the water. They are yellow, and so is the background, so it's unclear if these are yellow eels, or eels seen through a yellow filter. They don't much care, I would guess. One is looking to the left, and one is looking back over its metaphorical shoulder to the right. Neither is looking at you, and I think that's a choice. You should maybe spend some time thinking about why, and then try to move forward and live your life as the sort of person that eels would want to look at. Meme text reads: "Weir gonna climb Right over your dam"
September 15, 2023 at 4:05 PM