During territory establishment, individuals would then benefit by reforming prior territory boundaries, thereby reducing conflicts through interdependence.

Our framework is mainly applied to birds but it can also be extended to other seasonal breeders.

We hypothesise that non-breeding social behaviour among neighbours can function as a strategy to reduce future territoriality costs.

By maintaining dear-enemy relationships with neighbours and benefitting from sociality, individuals increase survival and reduce turnover in the neighbourhood.

Followed by Brendah Nyaguthii and Yiqing Chen presenting their amazing results on non-breeding home ranges of white-winged choughs and the evolution of mixed species flocking!
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@xingyij.bsky.social is presenting some of her exciting results on the alarm calls of azure-winged magpies!

Our paper on the distribution of breeding stone-curlews in the face of #GlobalChange has just been published in #GECCO. Plenty of insights for #arid #environments species and their conservation!

You can read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

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A beautiful ride this morning to get to the Australian National Botanic Gardens to colour band fairywrens!

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Our new paper is out in Avocetta! Together with the editorial board we laid out some thoughts on the role conservation trusts can play in environmental management and conservation.

You can read it here: doi.org/10.30456/AVO...

#birds #conservation #environment #ornithology

Hey! Got a bunch of new followers, so time for an intro!

I'm a PhD student studying the multilevel society of the Superb fairy-wren. Passionate about all things birds, ecology and behaviour!

Stay tuned for science content and fieldwork stories!

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