Poster in Edinburgh (best city in the world, no room for debate 🙂‍↕️) for the #ASABWinter2025

Challenges and new opportunities in deciphering the meaning of corvid call sequences - Animal Cognition Animal Cognition - Due to their complex social systems and remarkable cognitive abilities, corvids are interesting candidates for large scale comparative research on the meaning of animal calls....

If you are a researcher willing to explore the meaning of animal calls; and even more specifically of Corvid calls, and you are curious about what has been done in other clades...

Have a look at our new paper reviewing some recent ideas !
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Birds combined calls more than 11 million years ago - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Birds combined calls more than 11 million years ago

NEW PAPER 🐦🎵💬

The same type of ordering rule (high frequency calls followed by noisy broadband notes) is found in almost all living Paridae: very likely, this combination already existed in the common ancestor of tits and chickadees, 11 mya !

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#bird #mobbing #call

An evening’s thermal imaging with our visitors from MMU plus @ambresalis.bsky.social. We were lucky enough to spot a Beaver swimming towards us before it finally noticed us and slapped its tail on the water. We also spotted a Coypu browsing, plus huge numbers of bats hunting. @cbrassey.bsky.social

Genuinely astonished at this decision. It makes no sense at all. My love and unwavering support go out to every trans person in the UK facing uncertainty, fear and exclusion as a result of this. As far as I can tell we just deliberately created an anomaly in law to satisfy transphobes. But it won't.

This Monday, we talked about birds, their calls, and so much more with my colleague Agnes, in a workshop open to families at the Invention Rooms (white city campus).

Kids (and their fun parents) are always the best public - honestly I could do that all day 🥹

@imperiallifesci.bsky.social

I love these details so much - Natural History Museum, London 🦖🦕

Nice memories from our February fieldwork on Lundy Island 🐦

Handmade miniature book

- A very efficient way to relax after seeing the comments from Reviewer 2 🧘-

#StandUpForScience
Ce vendredi 07 mars, nous aurons l’occasion d’affirmer collectivement notre solidarité aux scientifiques et universitaires travaillant aux États-Unis, en Argentine et dans tous les pays où la liberté académique est menacée.

I would love that, thank you ! ☺️

That's what I call quality time 🐦

This week I had the opportunity to stay in Auchinlek, one of the wonderful buildings of the Landmark Trust

Surrounded by six incredible, kind and talented women working in bird ecology ⭐

This sets the stage for future collaborations together 🪺

No Effect of Note Order on the Response of Coal Tits to Conspecific, Heterospecific and Artificial Mobbing Calls Coal tits are among the few Paridae species that do not produce mobbing calls in a strict sequential order. A playback experiment investigates the relative importance of note origin (conspecific, kno....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ARTICLE

Most Paridae have a mobbing call made of two calls, ordered in a specific way - but the coal tit does not.

Could they still pay attention to the order of notes, especially when hearing heterospecific calls ?

A beautiful case of BDRP : a Bad Day to Record Sparrows 🥲

Celebrating Darwin's birthday today (and his brilliant ideas, did you get the pun in the picture? 😇)

#CEEDarwin2025

The debate of today is "How would Darwin do fieldwork today ?"

@ceevol.bsky.social

Trying to record house sparrows without them noticing... I love a good challenge !

Ahah that's a good question, I am currently working on this ! I would say yes, the chirp is probably used in several contexts such as contact/social calling, but quite often in specific sequences for territory defense and mating. So, from what we know, song is a good guess !

Hm i would say not for peer review, unsure about scholar, and yes for the CV ! You invested time to do it, so it should appear somewhere :)

Honestly I don't know, most advice says that placing them in October/November is better... I guess it depends on tons of factors ! Fingers crossed 😁

Pspspsp sparrows, come here 😇

(Yep, probably a bit late to place it, but hopefully next year they will use it 🤞)

Beginning of PhD (2019) versus End of PhD (2022) ...

Can you spot the 7 differences? 🙃

Have you heard about Lundy Island ? 🏝️

This small island is in the South West of England. It is the home not only of puffins and sheep, but also of a population of house sparrows (lucky me!).
They have been the focus of tons of awesome research (i'll talk about it someday 🤸)

YEAHH FIRST POST✨

I'm Ambre, working on birds and mostly house sparrows, trying to understand what they say and why they say it.

New year resolution: I'll share one picture each week about my project: SPANTICS.

(SPArrows semaNTICS.. yeah.. never was and never will be good at acronyms 🥸)

Yes yes yes ! 🎉