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Our latest magpie paper, headed by the wonderful Mylène Dutour shows fine-scale acoustic adjustment of alarm calls according to predator distance: handy way of communicating level of threat! Sarah Walsh @CEB_UWA School of Biological Sciences, UWA tandfonline.com/eprint/JU4ZYCS…

YAY!! 🎉🎉 Our first magpie fledgling of the year! Fledged from one of our smaller grips, they are very vulnerable and poorly flighted in their first days post-fledge. BUT: don’t pick them up if you see them like this! Usually they are fine and their parents are close by.

Our fledglings are now old enough to be weighed regularly! Unlike last year, a mild start to the summer meant good offspring survival. This fledgling form group SCL is now learning to forage independently at nearly three months old. Photo by Sarah Walsh

In celebration of the star of the show for our lab research: the wildlife. We are so privileged they let us work with them each day. Thanks from my colleagues, students and I to you, Ms Magpie, your daily antics in-field thrill us each day. 🙂❤️🪶 Sarah Walsh Lizzie Speechley

If you are interested in our magpie research, here’s the first of two podcasts, an interview between Ann Jones and I on the ABC: The real magpies of Western Australia abc.net.au/radionational/… School of Biological Sciences, UWA UWA Research

Here's the 2nd podcast about our magpie research with Ann Jones: this one on cognition & communication. I'm so lucky to work with marvellous collaborators, postdocs and students on this wonderful animal! School of Biological Sciences, UWA UWA Research abc.net.au/radionational/…

Magpies can distinguish between familiar & unfamiliar human voices: a handy trait for a species living in highly urbanised areas & sometimes persecuted for infamous swooping behaviour. Congrats to Mylène Dutour & co-authors Lizzie Speechley Sarah Walsh onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Multi-modal predator presentation for our experiments: this taxidermied raptor is mechanised so that it moves! We hope this seems a more realistic perched predator to the magpies 🤞 Developed by Sarah Walsh for her PhD research

For more info: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Amanda Ridley, Sarah Walsh, Lizzie Speechley

Our latest paper, headed by Sarah Walsh adds evidence to the presence of analogues of language-specific traits in non-human animals. Open Access here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Very excited to have the first paper from my PhD out - available Open Access in Royal Society Publishing #Interface! Thanks to my fantastic supervisors & co-authors Sabrina Engesser Simon W. Townsend Amanda Ridley. @CEB_UWA School of Biological Sciences, UWA UWA Research

New paper out! Western Australian magpies respond to urgency information contained in conspecific alarm calls. Amanda Ridley Sarah Walsh Grace Blackburn brill.com/view/journals/…

Good news! My article "Female Western Australian magpies discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar human voices" received enough citations to be a #topcitedarticle in Ethology Sarah Walsh Lizzie Speechley Amanda Ridley onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Delighted that Mylène Dutour’s magpie paper made the front cover of Behaviour! School of Biological Sciences, UWA @CEB_UWA Sarah Walsh Grace Blackburn

New paper in Nature Communications 6 years in the making and led by the amazing @Mael_Lx Call combinations and compositional processing in wild chimpanzees University of Zurich Swiss National Science Foundation ISLE NCCR Evolving Language nature.com/articles/s4146…

Grace Blackburn and I filmed a doco with the ABC about magpie research today! The birds behaved beautifully, Grace did an awesome job explaining her PhD experiments 😊 School of Biological Sciences, UWA @CEB_UWA UWA

Many congrats to Sarah Walsh for her talk to BirdlifeWA this evening about her research on multi-level combinatoriality in magpie communication! For details about Sarah’s research, see royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10… School of Biological Sciences, UWA @CEB_UWA

Was a delight to talk to Birdlife WA this week! I presented findings from my research on combinatoriality in WA magpie vocal communication. For more info, see royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… BirdLife Australia School of Biological Sciences, UWA @CEB_UWA 📷: Rochelle Steven & Amanda Ridley

The second paper from my PhD is out now! ⬇️ We look at the role of female repro fluids 🧫 in sperm longevity trade-offs - does slow and steady win the race? 🐢 Thanks to @RowanLym and Jon Evans for their support and guidance as always! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…