It was a Halloween treat 🎃 to have Dr. Carly Ziter deliver our Integrative Biology Departmental Seminar today: Understanding biodiversity and ecosystem services across urban landscapes. Thank you @carlyziter.bsky.social! And thank you for hosting our guest @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social.

A spooky Piping Plover... Madison and Natalie carved an ornithological jack-o-lantern for our departmental Halloween contest. Inspired by a Birds Canada template, with pumpkin-seed-feather embellishments, they won second place! 🎃🥈 Congratulations! @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @birdscanada.bsky.social

🦇 It’s #BatWeek! Ontario is home to 8 bat species and heartbreakingly, 7 are now endangered. From pest control to pollination, bats keep our ecosystems in balance. Let’s protect the night’s unsung heroes. 🌙
Learn more here:
onnaturemagazine.com/bat-guide.html
#bats #OntarioNature

"Exploring Bird Sounds with Dan Mennill." My episode of The Warblers podcast is now available on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrUX...
Andrea Gress and I discuss migratory flight calls, the twin voices of thrushes, and the spectacular song of the Musician Wren. @birdscanada.bsky.social 🎙️🎶🐦

Congratulations Connor!

Double brooding improves lifetime fitness. Our paper "Multigenerational fitness outcomes of double-brooding: a 30-year study of a migratory songbird" appears in the latest Behavioral Ecology: tinyurl.com/3hsyd42m. By @hayleyspina.bsky.social @ryannorrissci.bsky.social and our collaborative team.

Dr. Natalie Sánchez at a bird banding station in Costa Rica, holding a migratory thrush.

Dr. Natalie Sánchez has just been appointed as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in our Department of Integrative Biology at University of Windsor. Congratulations @natingui.bsky.social! I am so excited about the collaborations and research projects that lie ahead. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

With a little help from friends and family, Natalie has launched two new Motus Audio recorders in Essex County. Our migration monitoring network continues to grow!

Thanks to friendly Motus collaborators, we've got a new Motus Audio flight call recorder sampling the night skies over Kitchener. Our network of Motus Audio recorders continues to expand across Ontario, through the dedicated work of Madison and Natalie.

Motus Audio recorders are now set up at Birds Canada headquarters in Port Rowan and at Old Cut Research Station at Longpoint Bird Observatory. Which bird species will we record flying southwards this fall? @birdscanada.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social [📷 N. Emerick & M. Bygrove]

Great to see the work of our own Dr. Nigel Hussey at the Tancook Field Station in Nova Scotia!

Today is my favourite lecture of the year in our Introductory Ecology course: my research lecture. I share results from our laboratory and talk to the students about what it’s like to be an ecologist. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Vocal learning in wild birds! Today I spoke about our collaborative studies of Savannah Sparrows. Followed by great talks by Alex Kirschel, David Wheatcroft, Julie Elie, and Frédéric Theunissen. An information-rich day in Ste. Etienne. Thank you @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social

Sarah Dobney presented her doctoral studies at the International Bioacoustics Congress #ibac2025 in Kerteminde, Denmark. Way to go @sdobney.bsky.social!

The Voices of Nature! In our first Mennill Lab meeting of the new academic year, we started our reading of @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social’s great book of bioacoustics. Highly recommended reading for those interested in animal sounds.

I've been loving the talks and posters being presented at #IBAC2025! Come see my poster today to learn about the "Songs of the studs" 🎤🐦🪺 @dmennill.bsky.social

We've launched a Motus Audio Recorder on Pelee Island! Natalie, Madison, and Nelsy launched our 10th recorder, which will survey migratory birds passing over Pelee Island this fall.
@ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @birdscanada.bsky.social @peleeislandbird.bsky.social

Assisting the outstanding bird banders at Holiday Beach Migration Observatory, Nelsy, Natalie, and Madison have been helping to band fall warblers at Holiday Beach. @nelsyninor.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

This week we're launching our first Motus Audio units: flight-call microphones that stream data for real-time acoustic analysis of nocturnal bird migration. Natalie, Madison, and I ran successful on-campus trials today. 🎤🎵🕊️🌒
@birdscanada.bsky.social #bioacoustics #ornithology [📷: N. Niño]

Congratulations Connor!

Congratulations to @natingui.bsky.social who presented our collaborative wren and owl study at #AOS2025. Way to go Natalie!

So thrilled to be back in Churchill, learning about beluga vocal and social behaviour. Marie-Ana and I are here for the first field season of my postdoc project in collaboration with @raincoast.org, Frontiers North Adventures, Oceans North, @uwindsor.bsky.social, and @dmennill.bsky.social

Out on the @explore.org @polarbearsinternational.org beluga boat with Captain Tera yesterday!

Really challenging conditions but crystal-clear waters allowed for some amazing observations.

Thanks to Frontiers North Adventures, @raincoast.org and Oceans North! #BelugaResearch #adayinthefield

UWindsor students co-author scientific paper after immersive Paris field course <p><em>By Sara Elliott</em></p> <p>“The field course was a pivotal point in my academic journey because if not for my study abroad experience, I genuinely would not be in this lab and I wouldn’t be d...

"UWindsor students co-author scientific paper after immersive Paris field course." Today's campus newsletter has a write-up about our new paper, arising from our field course on Bird Song and Anthropogenic Noise. 🇫🇷🎶🐦 Check it out: www.uwindsor.ca/news/2025-07...

We're starting to build our first 50 Motus Audio flight call recorders. Natalie and Madison are in Port Rowan this week working with @birdscanada.bsky.social and the #Motus team. Thank you Birds Canada for your collaboration and hospitality. #bioacoustics

Background image of ocean water rushing over rocks with headshot of Erin Wall seen accompanying title text

Join @erin-wall.bsky.social at the Animal Behavior Society Virtual Conference to learn about her postdoc project on humpback whale vocalizations in collaboration with us,
@bcwhales.bsky.social, @marine-valeria.bsky.social, and @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social ! www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/2025/

Congratulations to Sophia Costa for winning 2nd place at the Western Conference for Science Education for her poster on integrating socio-ethical perspectives in the introductory genetics curriculum! So proud of her hard work and achievement!

Congratulations to PhD student Michelle Bondy for delivering a great talk yesterday at the Western Conference for Science Education, with our co-author and collaborator Dr. Isabelle Barrette-Ng. Way to go Michelle! @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Please come join Sophia Costa for her poster entitled "Beyond Punnett Squares: Revising the Canadian genetics curriculum to meaningfully introduce social and ethical perspectives" at 4 PM today at the Western Conference for Science Education

Please come join Angelina Medved for her presentation at 3:30 PM in PAB 148 for her presentation on misalignments between student and instructor expectations in genetics assessments