@birdsonglab.bsky.social
David Logue's lab at the University of Lethbridge. We study bird song from an evolutionary perspective. Our main interests are interactive communication, song repertoires, and vocal performance.
Nick Bohle, Tanya Martinez, and I are making a movie! Shout out to our amazing collaborators at Almodóvar Photography and Ansonia Records. @birdcalloftheday.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @parksbabel.bsky.social
#bioacoustic #birdsong #birds #PuertoRico
#bioacoustic #birdsong #birds #PuertoRico
August 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Nick Bohle, Tanya Martinez, and I are making a movie! Shout out to our amazing collaborators at Almodóvar Photography and Ansonia Records. @birdcalloftheday.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @parksbabel.bsky.social
#bioacoustic #birdsong #birds #PuertoRico
#bioacoustic #birdsong #birds #PuertoRico
Here's an upgraded version of the dawn chorus visualization I posted the other day. It now plays the songs in real time, and makes song type matches more conspicuous. Leave your suggestions in the comments!
June 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Here's an upgraded version of the dawn chorus visualization I posted the other day. It now plays the songs in real time, and makes song type matches more conspicuous. Leave your suggestions in the comments!
Exited about our first dynamic map of Adelaide's warblers' dawn chorus! Males sing many song types (colors & numbers) from the tops of tall trees in their territories. Here, you can see how they match one anothers' song types, causing songs 8, 3, 9, 21, and 5 to spread around the neighbourhood.
June 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Exited about our first dynamic map of Adelaide's warblers' dawn chorus! Males sing many song types (colors & numbers) from the tops of tall trees in their territories. Here, you can see how they match one anothers' song types, causing songs 8, 3, 9, 21, and 5 to spread around the neighbourhood.
Excited to be in Poland, giving a series of talks at the University of Warsaw!
Today I'll talk about reseach old (duets) and new (dawn chorus). Tomorrow, it's how to make your academic slides slightly less boring 😄
#Ornithology #Birdsong #ScienceCommunication #FieldworkAbroad #AcademicLife
Today I'll talk about reseach old (duets) and new (dawn chorus). Tomorrow, it's how to make your academic slides slightly less boring 😄
#Ornithology #Birdsong #ScienceCommunication #FieldworkAbroad #AcademicLife
May 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Excited to be in Poland, giving a series of talks at the University of Warsaw!
Today I'll talk about reseach old (duets) and new (dawn chorus). Tomorrow, it's how to make your academic slides slightly less boring 😄
#Ornithology #Birdsong #ScienceCommunication #FieldworkAbroad #AcademicLife
Today I'll talk about reseach old (duets) and new (dawn chorus). Tomorrow, it's how to make your academic slides slightly less boring 😄
#Ornithology #Birdsong #ScienceCommunication #FieldworkAbroad #AcademicLife
So, these birds prefer to sing song types that are locally common and transmit long distances during the dawn chorus. The causal relationships among these variables -- individual preference, local popularity, and the propagation efficiently -- remain to be determined. 5 / 5
April 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
So, these birds prefer to sing song types that are locally common and transmit long distances during the dawn chorus. The causal relationships among these variables -- individual preference, local popularity, and the propagation efficiently -- remain to be determined. 5 / 5
Preference is also associated with acoustic properties that promote long distance transmission, like low mean frequency. 4 / 5
April 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Preference is also associated with acoustic properties that promote long distance transmission, like low mean frequency. 4 / 5
Preference is best explained by local popularity: Individuals tend to overproduce song types that are shared with many of their neighbours. 3 / 5
April 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Preference is best explained by local popularity: Individuals tend to overproduce song types that are shared with many of their neighbours. 3 / 5
Tosin discovered that individual males prefer to sing certain song types during the dawn chorus, and their preferences are consistent across days. 2 / 5
April 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Tosin discovered that individual males prefer to sing certain song types during the dawn chorus, and their preferences are consistent across days. 2 / 5
Congratulations to Oluwatosin Ogundimu (in stripes) for successfully defending her master's thesis, "Song type preferences during the dawn chorus in male Adelaide's warblers"! (🧵 1 / 5)
April 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Congratulations to Oluwatosin Ogundimu (in stripes) for successfully defending her master's thesis, "Song type preferences during the dawn chorus in male Adelaide's warblers"! (🧵 1 / 5)
Here's our description from the text. Let me know if you have any other questions!
February 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Here's our description from the text. Let me know if you have any other questions!
Project leader Heath Petkau was an undergrad who taught himself to program during this project. He liked it so much, he's going for a master’s in data science. Go get 'em Heath! (5/5)
February 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Project leader Heath Petkau was an undergrad who taught himself to program during this project. He liked it so much, he's going for a master’s in data science. Go get 'em Heath! (5/5)
Song types formed clusters, or “themes." Clustering was stronger during daytime singing than in the dawn chorus. We hypothesize this difference may be driven by the need to warm up or communicate with neighbours at dawn, or by female preferences for extended themes during daytime song. (4/5)
February 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Song types formed clusters, or “themes." Clustering was stronger during daytime singing than in the dawn chorus. We hypothesize this difference may be driven by the need to warm up or communicate with neighbours at dawn, or by female preferences for extended themes during daytime song. (4/5)
We then made song type sequences networks for dawn chorus and daytime song and applied the walktrap community clustering algorithm to identify groups of songs that tend to be delivered in sequential proximity. (3/5)
February 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We then made song type sequences networks for dawn chorus and daytime song and applied the walktrap community clustering algorithm to identify groups of songs that tend to be delivered in sequential proximity. (3/5)
Staicer's pioneering work in the 1990s showed that Adelaide’s warblers sing differently during the dawn chorus than they do later in the morning. We used this difference to separate the dawn chorus from daytime song in a large sample of recordings. (2/5)
February 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Staicer's pioneering work in the 1990s showed that Adelaide’s warblers sing differently during the dawn chorus than they do later in the morning. We used this difference to separate the dawn chorus from daytime song in a large sample of recordings. (2/5)
Lab members Juley Vazquez-Cardona and Peter Mower taught a Bioacoustics workshop at the University of Puerto Rico's campuses in Ponce and Mayaguez. #Bioacoustica #Bioacoustics
November 19, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Lab members Juley Vazquez-Cardona and Peter Mower taught a Bioacoustics workshop at the University of Puerto Rico's campuses in Ponce and Mayaguez. #Bioacoustica #Bioacoustics
If you’re interested in joining us, please send your CV and a cover letter detailing your interest and suitability for the position to david.logue@uleth.ca by November 1, 2024. Feel free to reach out with any questions! (end 🧵)
October 2, 2024 at 3:43 PM
If you’re interested in joining us, please send your CV and a cover letter detailing your interest and suitability for the position to david.logue@uleth.ca by November 1, 2024. Feel free to reach out with any questions! (end 🧵)
We offer a diverse, supportive lab environment that emphasizes curiosity and discovery. Our lab is part of a vibrant animal behavior community at the University of Lethbridge, spanning ethology, behavioral ecology, and behavioral neuroscience in birds, mammals, and inverts. (5/6)
October 2, 2024 at 3:43 PM
We offer a diverse, supportive lab environment that emphasizes curiosity and discovery. Our lab is part of a vibrant animal behavior community at the University of Lethbridge, spanning ethology, behavioral ecology, and behavioral neuroscience in birds, mammals, and inverts. (5/6)
Valuable skills include:
· Acoustic analysis.
· Advanced statistics (e.g., mixed models, multivariate analyses, Bayesian approaches).
· Programming in R and Python.
· Scientific writing.
· Spanish language ability (helpful for fieldwork in Puerto Rico). (4/6)
· Acoustic analysis.
· Advanced statistics (e.g., mixed models, multivariate analyses, Bayesian approaches).
· Programming in R and Python.
· Scientific writing.
· Spanish language ability (helpful for fieldwork in Puerto Rico). (4/6)
October 2, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Valuable skills include:
· Acoustic analysis.
· Advanced statistics (e.g., mixed models, multivariate analyses, Bayesian approaches).
· Programming in R and Python.
· Scientific writing.
· Spanish language ability (helpful for fieldwork in Puerto Rico). (4/6)
· Acoustic analysis.
· Advanced statistics (e.g., mixed models, multivariate analyses, Bayesian approaches).
· Programming in R and Python.
· Scientific writing.
· Spanish language ability (helpful for fieldwork in Puerto Rico). (4/6)
We are looking for students with a solid background in evolution and animal behavior, who share our passion for animal communication. (3/6)
October 2, 2024 at 3:42 PM
We are looking for students with a solid background in evolution and animal behavior, who share our passion for animal communication. (3/6)
Our lab, led by Principal Investigator Dr. David Logue, investigates interactive vocal communication, communication networks, song type repertoires, and vocal performance in the tropical songbird, Adelaide’s warbler. (2/6)
October 2, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Our lab, led by Principal Investigator Dr. David Logue, investigates interactive vocal communication, communication networks, song type repertoires, and vocal performance in the tropical songbird, Adelaide’s warbler. (2/6)
The Birdsong Lab at the University of Lethbridge is seeking 1-2 motivated graduate students to join us starting in Fall 2025. Funding is available. (a🧵1 /6)
October 2, 2024 at 3:41 PM
The Birdsong Lab at the University of Lethbridge is seeking 1-2 motivated graduate students to join us starting in Fall 2025. Funding is available. (a🧵1 /6)
This AMAZING workshop for BIPOC graduate student in Animal Behavior is entirely FREE to students from any country. English - Spanish translation will be available. Please retweet! #AnimalBehavior #DiversifyingSTEM
April 23, 2024 at 9:21 PM
This AMAZING workshop for BIPOC graduate student in Animal Behavior is entirely FREE to students from any country. English - Spanish translation will be available. Please retweet! #AnimalBehavior #DiversifyingSTEM
Ph.D. student Juley Vazquez-Cardona and her crew are studying Adelaide's warblers in the non-breeding season. Is vocal performance lower than in the breeding season? Is it true that females are more aggressive and even sing at this time of year? Time to find out!
January 29, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Ph.D. student Juley Vazquez-Cardona and her crew are studying Adelaide's warblers in the non-breeding season. Is vocal performance lower than in the breeding season? Is it true that females are more aggressive and even sing at this time of year? Time to find out!
Excited to speak about our communication network research at the University of Northern Colorado!
January 24, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Excited to speak about our communication network research at the University of Northern Colorado!