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Sarah Dobney
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I am a PhD candidate at the University of Windsor studying vocal communication and vocal learning in songbirds.
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I launched our latest Motus Audio recorder just outside Algonquin Park, with a generous assist from Motus collaborator @ryannorrissci.bsky.social. Let's see how many sparrows and thrushes are still on-the-move in mid-October.
October 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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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.
October 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Tomorrow is #OctoberBigDay! The simple act of volunteer scientists birding and submitting their lists to eBird all at the same time, produces a powerful dataset that helps us learn about bird migration timing and more! Here's a late migrating Oct #NorthernYellowWarbler that is heading to C. America.
A small all yellow-green slings to an Oak tree branch
October 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Dr. Natalie Sánchez has just been appointed as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in our Department of Integrative Biology at University of Windsor. Congratulations @natingui.bsky.social! I am so excited about the collaborations and research projects that lie ahead. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social
Dr. Natalie Sánchez at a bird banding station in Costa Rica, holding a migratory thrush.
October 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Motus Audio recorders are now set up at Birds Canada headquarters in Port Rowan and at Old Cut Research Station at Longpoint Bird Observatory. Which bird species will we record flying southwards this fall? @birdscanada.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social [📷 N. Emerick & M. Bygrove]
October 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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It's "Birds and Reptiles Week" in the International Master's of Bioacoustics program. This week we're on campus at Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne. Today we had great lectures and workshops from Profs. Nicolas Mathevon, Ole Larsen, and Magnus Wahlberg. @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Our week of field-based learning has finished with a beautiful sunset, a campfire lecture, and a starry night. And a shockingly hard acoustic quiz. Can you differentiate a screaming deer, a creaking door, and a shrieking Nazgul? Next week: bird & reptile week on campus. @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Please share!🙏
🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain
The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦
September 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Sarah Dobney presented her doctoral studies at the International Bioacoustics Congress #ibac2025 in Kerteminde, Denmark. Way to go @sdobney.bsky.social!
September 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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We've launched a Motus Audio Recorder on Pelee Island! Natalie, Madison, and Nelsy launched our 10th recorder, which will survey migratory birds passing over Pelee Island this fall.
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September 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I've been loving the talks and posters being presented at #IBAC2025! Come see my poster today to learn about the "Songs of the studs" 🎤🐦🪺 @dmennill.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Yay bioacousticians all around! <3 Come see me at the #IBAC session tomorrow - or anytime for coffee/bikes!
September 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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"UWindsor students co-author scientific paper after immersive Paris field course." Today's campus newsletter has a write-up about our new paper, arising from our field course on Bird Song and Anthropogenic Noise. 🇫🇷🎶🐦 Check it out: www.uwindsor.ca/news/2025-07...
UWindsor students co-author scientific paper after immersive Paris field course
<p><em>By Sara Elliott</em></p> <p>“The field course was a pivotal point in my academic journey because if not for my study abroad experience, I genuinely would not be in this lab and I wouldn’t be d...
www.uwindsor.ca
July 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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The latest issue of Avian Conservation and Ecology (ACE) is out now!

Volume 20, Issue 1 features a variety of captivating bird research papers, including a new study co-authored by Danielle Ethier, Senior Scientist at Birds Canada.

Dive into this study and more at avianconservationecology.org
A landscape photo of a boreal forest. Overlay text reads "The challenge: We don’t know how birds are doing in much of the boreal forest because it’s too hard to survey in these remote regions." A Blackpoll Warbler perches on a branch. Overlay text reads "A new window: Because monitoring programs rarely reach the far north, boreal bird migration in the spring and fall offers a way to track their populations using migration data from bird observatory counts." A Blackpoll Warbler sings from a tree. Overlay text reads "An innovative method: Using the Blackpoll Warbler as a case study, researchers combined migration counts with feather isotopes. The feather chemistry helped reveal the origins of the birds, while migration counts provided insights into the changes in their populations." A landscape shot of the Blackpoll Warbler's habitat. Overlay text reads: "The big picture: This approach will help us protect more species by identifying where conservation is most urgently needed."
July 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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July 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Our new paper is out: "Avian biodiversity in the urban green spaces of Paris: higher bird species richness in larger parks and park centers". Co-authored with 14 UWindsor students from a Study Abroad field course. In Avian Conservation & Ecology: ace-eco.org/vol20/iss2/a...
Here's our story...
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Photograph of a group of University of Windsor students on a Study Abroad field course in Paris, France. We're giving the "thumbs up" next to a Song Meter we used to record birds in urban parks. Superimposed over the photo: the title of our new paper in the journal Avian Conservation and Ecology: "Avian biodiversity in the urban green spaces of Paris: higher bird species richness in larger parks and park centers."
July 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Savannah Sparrow song and Ovenbird song is the focus from our team today at #CSEE2025:
At 8:45 "Song of the Studs" by Sarah Dobney in Behav Ecol 1.
At 11:30 "Clamorous and Amorous" by Connor Acorn in Behav Ecol 2.
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July 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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What's all the buzz about? Today at 10:30 in the Avian Ecology session of #CSEE2025, our newest team member, Natalie Emerick, will present her research on bat and aerial insectivore acoustics (coauthors Hannah ter Hofstede and Liam O'Leary).
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July 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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It's a big day for our team at #CSEE2025:
At 14:00 join @jaclynaubin.bsky.social in room Sherbrooke C for her talk on St. Lawrence Beluga bioacoustics.
At 16:30 join me in room Lac Memphrémagog for my talk on a global horizon scan of bioacoustics.
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July 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Our team has prepared four talks for the upcoming #CSEE2025 meeting in Sherbrooke next week. I'm excited about the new projects we're going to share. See you in Quebec! 🎤🎶🐦🐋🇨🇦
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July 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Earlier this season we said goodbye to GBB. Born in 2014, she was one of the oldest and most productive females in our population:
35 nests, 80 eggs, 47 chicks fledged, 35 reached independence, 24 grandkids. This female below has now taken over her territory. Big 🐾 to fill!
#SFW_ANU #birds #ecology
Female superb fairywren on a log
June 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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We've just won two grants! Both are under embargo, but some exciting plans will now come to fruition for bioacoustic studies of wild birds and whales in Canada and beyond. With my awesome collaborators @jaclynaubin.bsky.social @ryannorrissci.bsky.social and S. Doucet.
June 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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How loud is a sparrow? Our new project involves measuring the amplitude of Savannah Sparrow songs.
This is a team investigation with @jaclynaubin.bsky.social, @sdobney.bsky.social, @nelsyninor.bsky.social, M. Bygrove, N. Emerick, and our sparrow collaborators, with funding from NSERC.
June 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Our 2025 Savannah Sparrow research team in the field. What a pleasure to work alongside these field ornithologists at Bowdoin Scientific Station! @ryannorrissci.bsky.social @sdobney.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Farewell Kent Island! With an A+ Savannah Sparrow team I helped record songs of 34 males, find 36 nests, and colour band 29 adults & 18 nestlings! More to come as the season finishes. Sad to leave, but thankful to be part of this project!@dmennill.bsky.social @ryannorrissci.bsky.social #ornithology
Savannah sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) Recording Savannah Sparrows with a Marantz PMD661 recorder and a parabolic reflector. Photo by Dan Mennill. Savannah Sparrow nest with four nestlings Measuring bill depth of a Savannah Sparrow during colour banding. All banding with permits. Photo by Dan Mennill.
June 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM