Hoping that the car rental gods smile on @albrechts-h.bsky.social as they did back for #CSEE2018!
#SCEECSEE20

An abstract lab meeting.
In today's Mennill Lab Meeting we read: Drafts of the abstracts we're preparing for @csee2018 @IOCongress2018 and @AnimBehSociety 2018.

East end birds and west end songs...
What happens when you play west-coast sparrow songs in an east-coast sparrow population for five years? Find out @csee2018 on Thursday at 2:30pm in room ROZ101 (session: "Behaviour I").

Like Rosetta Stone but for Sparrows…
We used sound playback to tutor wild Savannah Sparrows with a "foreign language". Hear about our innovative experiment @csee2018 on Thursday at 2:30 pm in Rozanski Hall Room 101 (session: "Behaviour I").

Wild birds learn songs from simulated vocal tutors: Today at 2:30 pm in ROZ101 @csee2018. Hear about our long-term experimental study of vocal learning in wild birds. (Don't believe the program... The talk will be delivered by D Mennill not D Menhill!)

Understanding songbird biology and conservation requires careful migration research, even for species as challenging to study as Blackpoll Warblers. Great #csee2018 talk by @NorrisLab.

Ilias Berberi delivers an interesting talk @csee2018 on performance trade offs in white-footed mice. Ilias is a @ScienceUWindsor alumnus now doing ecology graduate research @uOttawa and @QUBioStation.

It's not easy being yellow. Stéphanie presented a colourful poster on our collaborative research on the dynamic sexual dichromatism of Yellow Toads @csee2018.

Standing room only @csee2018 for Dr. Jenn Foote (Mennill Lab alumna and now faculty @AlgomaU) as she presents her collaborative research on Chimney Swifts, a bird of great conservation concern.

Alana @AD_basileuterus describes her experimental study of vocal responses of Rufous-capped Warblers to playback @csee2018. Songs appear to play a role in subspecies isolation in these interesting tropical birds. @ScienceUWindsor

Katy delivered her first ever conference talk on sexual dichromatism in Yellow Toads today @csee2018. A dynamic talk about a dynamic biological phenomenon @KatrinaMSwitzer! @ScienceUWindsor

“It’s amazing what you can see when you look into the eyes of a finch.” The fitting final words of @csee2018 by Andy Dobson.

The Mennill Lab ready to enjoy the closing plenary @csee2018 after a great week of conferencing.

One of my favourite parts of @csee2018 was reuniting with old friends from grad school: Brandon Schamp of @AlgomaU and Rob Laird of @uLethbridge.

Goodbye #CSEE2018! A special thanks to @AMacD_UGuelph and the grad students and faculty of @uofg for playing great hosts throughout @csee2018.

A summary of 4 experiments we contributed to #CSEE2018:
@AD_basileuterus: playback study of warbler song.
@KatrinaMSwitzer: model study of toad colour.
@DMennill: playback study of vocal learning.
@Steph_Doucet: model study of signal costs.
A great conference for #WindsorScience!