publications

• ​BRADSTOCK, E. W.,  DALZIELL, A. H., WELBERGEN, J. A., & MOUTE, K. (in press). Song structure and dialects in a peninsula population of the endangered Eastern Bristlebird. Ibis. DOI: 10.1111/ibi.70000

• AUSTIN, V. I., WELBERGEN, J. A., BACKHOUSE, F.,  MAISEY, A. C., LANGMORE, N. E.​ & DALZIELL, A. H. (in press). The effects of age on vocal mimicry in female superb lyrebirds. Journal of Avian Biology. 

• BACKHOUSE, F., WELBERGEN, J. A., AUSTIN, V. I., & DALZIELL, A. H. (2025). Vocal mimicry, and conspecific song and calls, in female Albert's lyrebirds (Menura alberti).  Ecology and Evolution, 15:e7207,  DOI:  10.1002/ece3.72072

• ​DALZIELL, A. H., & WELBERGEN, J. A. (2025). Expanding perspectives in mimicry research ('Viewpoint' article). Nature Ecology & Evolution DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02775-8

• ​BACKHOUSE, F., MIRANDO, H., HERWOOD, T., *ODOM, K. J., *DALZIELL, A. H., & *WELBERGEN, J. A. (2025).  Display court ecology in male Albert's Lyrebirds. Emu -  Austral Ornithology, 125:1, pp. 80-87. DOI: 10.1080/01584197.2024.2400931 [*These authors contributed equally] ​

• BACKHOUSE, F., WELBERGEN, J. A., ROBINSON, B. W., & DALZIELL, A. H. (2024). Performative manipulation of the environment by displaying Albert’s lyrebirds. The American Naturalist, 204:2, DOI: 10.1086/730523 

• ​HUGHES, E. J., AUSTIN, V. I., BACKHOUSE, F., MAISEY, A. C., LOPEZ, K. A., MIKLES, C. S., *ODOM, K. J., *WELBERGEN, J. A., & *DALZIELL, A. H. (2023). Preferred nesting habitat of the slow-breeding Superb Lyrebird is rare and was disproportionately impacted by Australia’s "Black Summer" megafires (2019–2020) within a World Heritage Area.  Ornithological Applications, 124:4, ​DOI: 10.1093/ornithapp/duad027  [*These authors contributed equally] ​[Cover feature, Editor's choice]

• BACKHOUSE, F., WELBERGEN, J. A., MAGRATH, R. D., & DALZIELL, A. H. (2023). Depleted cultural richness of an avian vocal mimic in fragmented habitat. Diversity and Distributions, 29, pp. 109-122. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13646​

• *CRISOLOGO, T., L., *DZIELSKI, S. A., PURCELL, J. R., WEBSTER, M. S., WELBERGEN, J. A. & DALZIELL, A. H. (2023). Selective alarm call mimicry in the sexual display of the male superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae). Evolutionary Ecology, 37, pp. 245-266, DOI: 10.1007/s10682-022-10200-w  [*These authors contributed equally] ​

• DALZIELL, A. H., WELBERGEN, J. A. & MAGRATH, R. D.  (2022). Male superb lyrebirds mimic functionally distinct heterospecific vocalisations during different modes of sexual display. Animal Behaviour, 188, 181-196. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.04.002​

• BACKHOUSE, F., DALZIELL, A. H., MAGRATH, R. D., & WELBERGEN, J. A. (2022). Sequences of vocal mimicry performed by male Albert’s lyrebirds are socially transmitted and enhance acoustic contrast. Proceedings of the Royal Society  B: Biological Sciences, 289: 20212498. ​DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2498 

• DALZIELL, A. H. & WELBERGEN, J. A.  (2022). ​Male Superb Lyrebirds (Menura novaehollandiae) perform an ornate multimodal display immediately following copulation. Ibis, 164(3), 809-815. DOI: 10.1111/ibi.13052

• AUSTIN, V. I., DALZIELL, A. H., LANGMORE, N. E., & WELBERGEN, J. A. (2021). Avian vocalisations: the female perspective. Biological Reviews, 96(4), pp. 1484-1503. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12713

• BACKHOUSE, F., DALZIELL, A. H., MAGRATH, R. D., RICE, A., N., CRISOLOGO, T., L., & WELBERGEN, J. A. (2021). Differential geographic patterns in song components of male Albert’s lyrebirds. Ecology and Evolution, 11, pp. 2701-2716. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7225​

• DALZIELL, A. H., MAISEY, A. C., *MAGRATH, R. D., & *WELBERGEN, J. A. (2021). Male lyrebirds create a complex acoustic illusion of a mobbing flock during courtship and copulation. Current Biology, 31(9), pp. 1970-1976.e4. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.02.003  [*These authors contributed equally][Editor's choice]

• ODOM, K. J., ARAYA-SALAS, M., MORANO, J. L., LIGON, R. A., LEIGHTON, G. M., TAFF, C. C., DALZIELL, A. H., BILLINGS, A. C., GERMAIN, R. R., PARDO, M., DE ANDRADE, L. G., HEDWIG, D., KEEN, S. C., SHIU, Y., CHARIF, R. A., WEBSTER, M. S., & RICE, A. N. (2021). Comparative bioacoustics: a roadmap for quantifying and comparing animal sounds across diverse taxa. Biological Reviews, 96(4), pp. 1135-1159. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12695

• AUSTIN, V. I., WELBERGEN, J. A., MAISEY, A. C., LINDSAY, M. G., & DALZIELL, A. H. (2019). Destruction of a conspecific nest by a female Superb Lyrebird: evidence for reproductive suppression in a bird with female-only parental care. Behaviour, 156(15), pp. 1459-1469. DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003574​

• DALZIELL, A. H. & WELBERGEN, J. A. (2016) Mimicry for all modalities. Ecology Letters, 19, pp. 609-619. DOI:  10.1111/ele.12602

• DALZIELL, A. H. & WELBERGEN, J. A. (2016) Elaborate mimetic vocal displays by female superb lyrebirds. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 4, pp. 1-34. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00034​

• ​DALZIELL, A. H., WELBERGEN, J. A., IGIC, B. & MAGRATH, R. D. (2015) Avian vocal mimicry: a unified conceptual framework. Biological Reviews, 90, pp. 643-668. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12129​

• DALZIELL, A. H., PETERS, R. A., COCKBURN, A., DORLAND, A., MAISEY, A. C., & MAGRATH, R. D. (2013). Dance choreography is coordinated with song repertoire in a complex avian display. Current Biology, 23, pp. 1132-1135. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.05.018 [Cover feature] Video abstract​

• ​​​DALZIELL, A. H., & MAGRATH, R. D. (2012). Fooling the experts: accurate vocal mimicry in the song of the superb lyrebird. Animal Behaviour, 83, pp. 1401-1410. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.03.009 

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Commentary

• BACKHOUSE, F., DALZIELL, A. H., MAGRATH R.D. & WELBERGEN J. A. (2022) Listen to the Albert’s lyrebird: the best performer you’ve never heard of. The Conversation. 14-4-2022

• DALZIELL, A. H. (2022) Dancing after sex: Male Superb Lyrebirds perform a bizarre audio-visual display, after copulation. #theBOUblog  British Ornithologists’ Union. 26-3-2022

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• DALZIELL, A. H. (2021) Foreword to The Message of the Lyrebird, ed Mark Pearce, Balangara Films, Australia. ​

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• DALZIELL, A. H. & WELBERGEN J. A. ‘Bloody fool!’: why Ripper the musk duck, and many other talkative Aussie birds, are exciting biologists. The Conversation. 17-9-2021

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• ​​DALZIELL, A. H. & WELBERGEN J. A. The mimics among us - Birds pirate songs for personal profit. The Conversation. 19-8-2014