For years @Steph_Doucet and I have studied the amazing bird collection @UMich. Today I'm pleased to host a visit from their new Curator of Birds @Winger_Ben. Ben will speak about birds and migration to @UWindsor's Bio Department at 1:30pm. All are welcome. #WindsorScience

What can we learn about birds migrating over the Great Lakes by pointing microphones at the night sky? @ZachGayk delivered an informative research seminar on the progress of his doctoral studies. Great presentation Zach! #WindsorScience

Our Science on Tap: Birds and Beers II event was a success last night. We had a great exchange of ideas between @ScienceUWindsor bird researchers and an engaged crowd of bird enthusiasts from Windsor and Essex County. #WindsorScience

Science On Tap: Birds & Beers II takes place Thursday evening at Walkerville Brewery! Here are some of the #prizes that will be won in our bird trivia contest.
Tickets: http://bit.do/BirdsBeers2
Prize thanks: #VortexCanada #PeleeWings #WindsorScience

Bioacoustic surveys of nocturnal birds and mammals @ACGuanacaste: In this week's Mennill Lab meeting we read Alex and Haylee's Honours Thesis proposals. Exciting undergraduate research lies ahead! #WindsorScience

Today I'm excited to deliver a Biology Departmental Seminar on my studies of vocal learning in wild birds. Seminar at 1:30pm in Biology Building room 122. All are welcome! #WindsorScience

This Friday Dr. Rick Simpson will deliver a Biology Departmental Seminar @UWindsor on his studies of courtship signals in #hummingbirds: Friday September 28 at 1:30pm in Biology 122. #WindsorScience

One exciting part of teaching Ornithology @UWindsor: the Peregrine Falcons of the Ambassador Bridge. This photo was taken on campus by undergraduate student Alexandria Desmarais during our first lab expedition this week. #ornithology #WindsorScience

Zach is checking on our microphones on the shore of Lake Superior. We had a big week: on Tuesday @ZachGayk counted >4000 warblers and thrushes passing overhead. #ornithology #WindsorScience

Autumn field research has begun for our lab in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where @ZachGayk has set up a microphone array to record migrating warblers. May the birds be plentiful and vocal! #WindsorScience #ornithology

Rufous-capped Warblers show seasonal, temporal, and annual variation in song use. Alana Demko @AD_basileuterus and I wrote a paper on vocal behaviour of these interesting tropical singers, and it has just been accepted at @IBIS_journal! #ornithology #WindsorScience

Summary of our lab's contributions to #IOCongress2018:
Dan's keynote on vocal learning in sparrows.
Brendan's talk on cultural evolution in wrens.
Ian's poster on song ontogeny in sparrows.
New collaborator Kim's poster on wrens.
Proud to see #WindsorScience on a world stage!

As aggressive males and choosy females arrive on the breeding grounds, first-year Savannah Sparrows change their songs. Learn about our lab's newest research project at Ian Thomas' poster (P02.004) @IOCongress2018 this afternoon! #WindsorScience #IOCongress2018

Past and present #WindsorScience graduates sharing their research @IOCongress2018: Dr. David Bradley (lab alum 2008) is now BC Program Manager for @BirdStudiesCan. Dr. Karan Odom (lab alum 2009) is now a postdoc @CornellBirds. Ian Thomas and I represent our current lab.

Do bird songs serve dual functions or duelling functions? Visit Ian Thomas’ poster (P02.004) @IOCongress2018 to explore whether bird song evolves in different directions due to female choice and male competition. #WindsorScience #IOCongress2018

We have touched down in Vancouver for #IOCongress2018. Together with our students, we will present research on sparrow vocal behaviour, cultural evolution in wrens, and song learning in songbirds. #WindsorScience @UWindsor @IOCongress2018

Vocal signals: diverse forms and diverse functions. In two weeks Rob Magrath and I will convene a symposium on the avian voice @IOCongress2018 in Vancouver. I'll deliver a keynote address on vocal learning in wild birds. All #IOCongress2018 delegates are welcome! #WindsorScience

What can we learn about bird behaviour by triangulating flocks of migratory birds? What can we learn about ageing by recording songs across an animal's life? Visit our lab's posters @2018ABS tonight: Zach Gayk at Poster 93 and Lincoln Savi at Poster 97. #ABS2018 #WindsorScience

How do Yellow Toads react to audiences of different size and composition?
Find out at 4:30 pm today @2018ABS when our PhD student Katrina Switzer presents: "Social Influence on Hormones and Rapid Colour Change in a Neotropical Toad". Room: Laphan 103. #ABS2018 #WindsorScience

How do divergent subspecies of tropical warblers behave when they meet in secondary contact? Find out at 10am today @2018ABS when Alana Demko presents our playback study: "Receiver response to song divergence in a Neotropical songbird." Room: Lubar N140. #ABS2018 #WindsorScience

Our posters are printed and laminated; our talks are practiced and finalized; the Mennill Lab grad students are heading to Wisconsin for Animal Behaviour Society’s annual meeting @2018ABS! #WindsorScience #ABS2018

Darwin comes to town: How cities are creating new species. This article in The Guardian features a photograph taken by @UWindsor's Dr. Stéphanie Doucet of European Starling museum specimens: https://bit.ly/2NRzUwz #WindsorScience #ornithology @guardian

Today marks the official end of the Mennill Lab's 2018 field season: my intrepid student Ian Thomas departs Bowdoin Scientific Station @BSSkentisland after 3.5 months of intensive research on Savannah Sparrows in the Bay of Fundy. Great research Ian! #WindsorScience #ornithology

"Decoding the “zeep” complex: Quantitative analysis of interspecific variation in the nocturnal flight calls of nine wood warbler species". I'm excited we received final acceptance in the journal Bioacoustics. Great work Blaine! #bioacoustics #ornithology #WindsorScience

A summary of 4 experiments we contributed to #CSEE2018:
@AD_basileuterus: playback study of warbler song.
@KatrinaMSwitzer: model study of toad colour.
@DMennill: playback study of vocal learning.
@Steph_Doucet: model study of signal costs.
A great conference for #WindsorScience!

I was happy to deliver the inaugural seminar of the Kent Island Summer Seminar Series (aka the "Dessert Seminar Series"... consistently delicious and usually informative), sharing #WindsorScience with students from @BowdoinCollege, @KenyonCollege, @UWindsor, and @UofG.

On today’s episode of @CBCQuirks I’ll be answering the question: How do tiny songbirds sing such long songs without taking a breath? #WindsorScience #ornithology

Scene from a Colour Lab: Steph, Katy, and Lincoln are using spectrophotometry to find the perfect colour of paint for Katy's Neotropical Yellow Toad models. #WindsorScience #herpetology

Ian Thomas won first prize @UWindsor's Three-Minute Thesis competition for his presentation: “Birdsong and the roots of human language”. Congratulations Ian! The whole lab feels elated and proud of your win! #3MT #Ornithology #WindsorScience

Today it was a great to meet the great Bob McDonald of @CBCQuirks, a guest speaker on our campus courtesy of @UWinSciSoc. #WindsorScience