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Many congrats to Sarah Walsh for her paper supporting the hypothesis that combinatorial complexity is related to social complexity! Sarah found that magpies in larger grps gave call combinations in greater diversity and more frequently: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… School of Biological Sciences, UWA

A nice social interaction caught by the NHK film crew who are releasing a documentary on our magpies very soon! This is an adult male and juvenile at MBG group. Lizzie Speechley Mylène Dutour Grace Blackburn Sarah Walsh Stephanie Mason (she/they)

#ProcB Aggressive interactions influence #cognitive performance in Western Australian #magpies ow.ly/NkSi50SaCo9 #Behaviour #Evolution Amanda Ridley Lizzie Speechley #OpenAccess

Many congrats to Lizzie Speechley for this important paper in Biol Revs using meta-analyses to reveal support for the Social Intelligence Hypothesis as an explanation for cognitive variation! Ben Ashton Yong Zhi Foo School of Biological Sciences, UWA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… This paper revealed that:

I was recently asked to write an article on my #PhD research for Australian Wildlife Society magazine! 🐦‍⬛🎶✈️ Check out the full magazine at aws.org.au/magazine/

Excited to share our review, led by Grace Blackburn looking at the co-occurrence of multiple anthro stressors on avian behaviour and cognition, and how the effect of two stressors together may be worse than the added effect of singly. Camilla Soravia nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Our review on the importance of investigating the effects of rising #temperatures 🌡️and #anthropogenic #noise 🚘✈️ together in #urban areas is out now in J. of Avian Biology 🐦‍⬛ Camilla Soravia Amanda Ridley doi.org/10.1111/jav.03…

Investigating the relationship between physical cognitive tasks and a social cognitive task in a wild bird | link.springer.com/article/10.100… | Animal Cognition | #ornithology

Happy to announce we have a new team member - Camilla Soravia! She's already had the chance to see some lesser horseshoe #bats as we moved equipment last week. Excited to benefit from her insights & expertise!

#Niche-based measures of impacts on #biodiversity after major disturbance events provide more nuanced insights than geographic measures alone.🌿 Learn more in Sopniewski et al at doi.org/10.1111/cobi.1… #conservation #science #wordoftheweek

The importance of investigating the impact of simultaneous anthropogenic stressors: the effects of rising temperatures and anthropogenic noise on avian behaviour and cognition | doi.org/10.1111/jav.03… | J. of Avian Biology | #ornithology

NEW PAPER: Rising temperatures and anthropogenic noise may have additive, synergistic, or antagonistic effects on avian behaviour and cognition. ➡️ vist.ly/3mfjxgx #ornithology #cognition #noise #rising_temperatures Grace Blackburn Camilla Soravia Amanda Ridley #UWA

AWARD ISSUE OUT! Featuring 5 outstanding mini-reviews on a broad range of topics, written by early career researchers who participated in the review competition ➡️ vist.ly/3mme3s7 Violeta Caballero-Lopez Guillaume DILLENSEGER @FrankMuzio21 Grace Blackburn Camilla Soravia #HeatherWolverton

JAB Review Award contribution: Grace Blackburn Camilla Soravia and Amanda Ridley review effects of high temperatures + anthropogenic noise as single stressors, but more importantly, how they interact to affect behaviour, reproduction + cognitive ability ➡️ vist.ly/3mmpyax

Breeding season is also fight season! Here one female WA magpie submits to another by rolling on her back with her feet in the air. The other female is adopting a typical dominant threat pose above her. Photo: Kito Ridley

A study by The University of Western Australia found that maintaining some predation pressure in havens gave native fauna improved chances of survival when they were released into the wild. READ tinyurl.com/2up3mhdt

Our new paper, led by Masters student Holly Hunter, finds that magpies are capable of quantity discrimination, and this ability is affected by group size. ⁦Ben Ashton⁩ ⁦Grace Blackburn⁩ bsky.app/profile/mandyr…

Our new paper, led by Grace Blackburn , finds a sharp decline in the rate of carol calls (the main territorial call) given by Australian Magpies during anthropogenic noise, but no change in the amplitude. Ben Ashton Mylène Dutour onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib…