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After 8 years, I am retiring as ASFB Communications Manager. This is an excellent job opportunity, perhaps for a student looking to supplement their income: part-time, remote, and with flexible working hours. Wonderful colleagues, and you'll learn plenty about fish!

Last night we had a group of about 12 fairywrens following us around the garden. To me they are the clown fish of the sky, so hard to photograph! Thanks to Dr Andrew Katsis I learnt these little birds have a fascinating history. Check out this thread!

Variegated Fairywrens are complex social beings, with ~2/3 of groups containing multiple breeding pairs defending the same territory. This AUS endemic lights up lantana w/ its gaudy plumage... New preprint w/ Joseph Welklin, Dan Baldassarre, & others: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (1/4)

Prenatal sound experience affects song preferences in male zebra finches Article in #AnimalBehavior by Dr Andrew Katsis; Andrew Bennett; Katherine Buchanan; Sonia Kleindorfer & Mylene Mariette: tinyurl.com/yc38ccff #ZebraFinches #bioacoustics

This week, we welcomed the season's first goslings, courtesy of proud parents Dorothea and Babaco. Many more to come!

My latest for the New Scientist Zebra finches, songbirds of Australia, are so cool that they can pick their vocal coaches based on songs they hear as embryos. newscientist.com/article/236861…

Kendo relaxing with her gosling, who is nearly two weeks old.

Diversity in greylag goose faces at Konrad Lorenz Research Center: [clockwise from top-left] Hedwig, Rübezahl, Karamell & Disney