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Lauryn Benedict, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Northern Colorado. Photo courtesy of the University of Northern Colorado
10 April 2024

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Lauryn Benedict | Faces of AOS

“I am glad to be part of an organization that is here for the birds, and also here for the people.”

Drab-breasted Bamboo Tyrant (Hemitriccus diops). Image Credit: Breves, L.A. (2020) – www.ornithos.com.br
21 April 2021

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Revealing the evolutionary enigmas of the song of a neotropical rainforest bird on the Brazilian coast

By Adriana Acero and Marcos Maldonado-Coelho Linked Paper: Ecological and evolutionary drivers of geographic variation in songs of a Neotropical suboscine bird: The Drab-breasted Bamboo Tyrant (Hemitriccus diops, Rhynchocyclidae), by …

A spectrogram of a female Black-capped Chickadee fee-bee song. Inset photo by Kimberley Campbell.
18 May 2020

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Investigating Female Song Use in Black-Capped Chickadees

Bird song has long been considered a sexually selected signal, used predominantly by male songbirds for territorial defense and mate attraction.

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Yellowhammers are known for their varying song dialects. Photo by Petr Jan Juračka (petr.juracka.eu).
21 October 2019

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What Can the “Little Bit of Bread” in Yellowhammer Song Tell Us?

Dialects, a well-known feature of human languages, can also be found in the vocalizations of various bird species.

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