Successful Master's thesis defense of my student Isabel Vargas at the University of Costa Rica.

She studied environmental and forest structure factors affecting Wood Thrush occupancy in Northern Costa Rica

Project funded by @gdfcf.bsky.social

This year marks the 100th birthday of #bioacoustics, established by Ivan Regen in 1925, which studies how animals hear, produce and propagate sound.

Let’s discover this discipline with @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social, Professor of Saint Etienne University, in the first episode of Acoustic World.

Sarah Dobney presented her doctoral studies at the International Bioacoustics Congress #ibac2025 in Kerteminde, Denmark. Way to go @sdobney.bsky.social!

Excited to see our manuscript published soon! 🦉🪺🐦 @dmennill.bsky.social

Double brooding improves lifetime fitness. Our paper "Multigenerational fitness outcomes of double-brooding: a 30-year study of a migratory songbird" appears in the latest Behavioral Ecology: tinyurl.com/3hsyd42m. By @hayleyspina.bsky.social @ryannorrissci.bsky.social and our collaborative team.

I feel extremely honored and excited for this appointment at the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Windsor. 🐦🇨🇦 Dan @dmennill.bsky.social, can't wait to continue our ongoing and future collaborations.

@ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Love songs and battle cries: vocal duetting behaviour in tropical wrens. Today was my final lecture of the 2025 International Master's of Bioacoustics program. It was a chance to proudly share our collaborative 22-year study of #bioacoustics in Rufous-and-white Wrens. @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

Special issue:
FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY

More info: vist.ly/43vfp

Guest editors: Jan O. Engler, Jenn Foote, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:g27o3ttbhwno6sjns7wwl3yg" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@silvereyedom.bsky.social Simon Thorn

#ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

Celebrating a symposium of @behaviour2025.bsky.social, call for article submission for a special issue "Animal Intelligence: From Individual to Social Cognition" in Acta Ethologica.

Submissions are open to everyone!
Information at link.springer.com/collections/...

#Behaviour2025 #actaethologica

Grateful for the opportunity to present my postdoctoral research in the Mennill Lab at #AOS2025 on vocal behaviours of Rufous-and-white wrens in the presence of an owl predator near and far from the nest.

It was wonderful to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones. 🐦🎶🦉

@dmennill.bsky.social

How do Rufous-and-white Wrens respond when this 3D-printed owl is presented near versus far from their nest? Find out in Dr. Natalie Sanchez' talk "Singing in the face of danger" today at 16:00 in Grand Ballroom A at #AOS2025. 🦉🇨🇷🎶 @natingui.bsky.social @gdfcf.bsky.social @lincolnsavi.bsky.social

Embed ALL the sounds

New tool from @vskode.bsky.social to compare methods that classify & cluster animal sounds w/ embeddings: vectors extracted from neural network models

Nice example w/ AnuranSet from @juancanyas.bsky.social in post 👇

Code: github.com/bioacoustic-...

#prattle 💬
##bioacoustics

Rufous-and-white Wren tweaking its nest. June 18, 2025. Sector Santa Rosa, ACG. 🍂🪺

Today I launched a Motus Audio night flight call recorder at Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island. How many migrants will fly over the Bay of Fundy tonight? @birdscanada.bsky.social

Last week season 10 of Fine finished.
You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel

www.youtube.com/@seminaronfr...

Last April, we nano-tagged Swainson's Thrush in Monteverde, 🇨🇷 to contribute to understand their migration pathways.

This is part of GDFCF @gdfcf.bsky.social BioAve project

We detected them by our Motus stations at Área de Conservación Guanacaste and in their way North. @birdscanada.bsky.social

wrens!
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/21/how-scientists-started-to-decode-birdsong
@NewYorker @BirdLabFlinders

Learn everything you ever wanted to know about bird sounds! The Warblers Podcast chats with @dmennill.bsky.social, a lifelong ornithologist and expert on avian communication. How do thrushes sing? Could we monitor bird populations using sound? What's up with tropical birds duetting?

"Exploring Bird Sounds with Dan Mennill." What an honour to be interviewed on The Warblers, the Birds Canada podcast.
Listen here:
Spotify: tinyurl.com/2skkart8
Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/2stnm5ak
Birds Canada: www.birdscanada.org/warblerspodc...
@birdscanada.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Very pleased to announce that I have successfully defended my doctoral dissertation! Huge thanks to my supervisory committee, @dmennill.bsky.social, @marine-valeria.bsky.social, @lrendell.bsky.social, Robert Michaud, Christina Semeniuk, Nigel Hussey, and Aaron Fisk! @uwindsor.bsky.social

Hey look, I'm news!
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Recording in 3... 2... 1... I've been invited to be a guest on the #WarblersPodcast, the official podcast of @birdscanada.bsky.social, and we're recording this morning!

Thank you, Dan, for your kind words and for the overview of my time working with you in the Mennill Lab and at the University of Windsor. This time has a special place in my heart and in my academic career. 🎶🐦

Today I had the pleasure to talk about multi-modal signalling in tropical wrens in Dr. Hannah ter Hofstede's Animal Communication class @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social. Thank you for the invitation Hannah. [📷 @nelsyninor.bsky.social]

After weeks of writing, today I've submitted a big grant application, with collaborators S. Doucet and R. Norris @ryannorrissci.bsky.social. Here are some of the images from our grant "Bioacoustics infrastructure for innovative field studies of ecology and conservation of migratory birds."