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BACKHOUSE, F.,
MIRANDO, H., HERWOOD, T.,
*ODOM, K. J., *DALZIELL, A. H., & *WELBERGEN, J. A. (2024).
Display court ecology in male Albert's Lyrebirds
.
Emu - Austral Ornithology
,
DOI:
10.1080/01584197.2024.2400931
[*These a
uthors 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 a
uthors 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 a
uthors 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 a
uthors 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
other publications
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
DALZIELL, A. H. (2021) Foreword to
The Message of the Lyrebird
, ed Mark Pearce,
Balangara Films, Australia.
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
DALZIELL, A. H.
&
WELBERGEN J. A.
The mimics among us - Birds pirate songs for personal profit
.
The Conversation
. 19-8-2014
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