Natalie V. Sánchez

Our new paper is out today in Ethology: "In the Danger Zone: Wrens Respond More Strongly to Experimentally Simulated Predators Near Their Nest" With Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social How do tropical wrens respond to simulated predators near their nest? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵1

The case of the disappearing fairywrens. Article just out focusing on our @fairywrensanu.bsky.social @scienceanu.bsky.social @anupress.bsky.social long term study and the recent declines we've detected. Nice to see our call for long term studies is highlighted. news.mongabay.com/2026/08/supe...

For anyone that missed my talk at @isbe2026.bsky.social - never you fear! You can watch my talk and read more about the new Replication Studies section at @behavecol.bsky.social right here! laskowskilab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2026/07/22/r...

Want to present your research at #ABL2026? 🗓 Submit your abstract by 6 September and join researchers from around the world for a day dedicated to "Studying Animal Behaviour in a Changing World." 🎤 Choose between: 🔹 A 15-min live talk 🔹 A 5-min video poster 📄 Submit now ablaoc.sciencesconf.org

Please share! I have two positions for graduate students in my lab, starting Fall 2027. Details on the position s and application process can be found here: kjmathot.wordpress.com/opportunities/

New article from our team! A. Araguas et al. show that social interaction shapes vocal learning in young zebra finches tutored by a robot bird 🤖 🎶🐦 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... And check out @sebrafinch.bsky.social's Cassyni presentation on this study: cassyni.com/events/9682W...

Should the term 'personality trait' be really used in animal personality studies? With Sasha Dall and @dingemanselab.bsky.social we don't think so. We explain why in this commentary published in Animal Behaviour. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Apparently our Motus Audio recorders also serve as a handy perch for migrating warblers! Our collaborator André Desrochers took this amazing photo of a Cape May Warbler perched on our Tadoussac Motus Audio recorder. What a shot, André! @birdscanada.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

🌿🌵🎶 listen to the forest succession sound! Thanks for spreading the word! #DataSonification #ForestSound #ForestEcology #Science+Art #SciComm

Yesterday I gave a talk (in Spanish) on my research about chronic noise to the Landscape Ecology class at the University of Costa Rica. A nice throwback to my PhD project! 🐦🇨🇦

Motus Audio Day 1: Vancouver BC. After a year of designing, planning, and building, today is a big day: Natalie and Madison are starting a cross-Canada trip to launch 100 Motus Audio recorders. Follow us as we build a continent-wide microphone network. motus-audio.web.app #bioacoustics #ornithology

🔊Out now with @lsburchardt.bsky.social @marcosqoliva.bsky.social, Kouřil & Petrusková: Yellowhammer males sing using individual isochronous rhythms & maximise rhythmic dissimilarity with their neighbours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Science and art! Sketching an antlion larvae!

Pop songs in science papers! 🎶💃🎙️🐦

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Our latest study is officially accepted! Dan @dmennill.bsky.social and I used 3D-printed pygmy owls to explore predator responses in Rufous-and-white Wrens. Check it out soon in Ethology. 🦉🔊🪺🇨🇷🇨🇦

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Special issue: FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY More info: vist.ly/46pfg Guest editors: Jan O. Engler, Jenn Foote, @silvereyedom.bsky.social , Simon Thorn #ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

Ever wonder how birds are able to identify their nest? Jennings et al. show that nests can become scented like the birds that occupy them, which may enable birds to use olfaction to accomplish this critical task. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A visual summary of Peter and Juley's new open access paper in Ibis. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In memory of Dr. Keith Hobson, the Society of Canadian Ornithologists is collecting donations to support the Keith Hobson Early Career Research Award. If you have the means, join me in supporting this initiative: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati... Details: www.sco-soc.ca/early-career...

3 great words on a Monday morning: Accepted for publication! Our paper "Hushed disputes between noisy neighbours: Ovenbirds vary song amplitude during conflicts with territorial rivals" is coming to Animal Behaviour. 🤫🎶🐦 By Connor Acorn, Jenn Foote, and me. [📷: J. Foote] @animbehsociety.bsky.social

Thank you, Nature Guelph, for the invitation to speak about our research on acoustic monitoring of bird migration. It was great to join such an engaged and excited group of birders for the evening.

CALENDAR ERROR: My talk to Nature Guelph is TOMORROW night, Thursday December 4. (I think that I have end-of-semester brain.) Anyone interested is welcome to join Thursday December 4 at 7:30pm: natureguelph.ca/events/eaves...

📣CALL FOR PAPERS - NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 JUNE 2026📣 Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives More info: vist.ly/4fn5i Guest editors: @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social Please repost 🙏

Our new paper is a deep dive into the pros and cons of double quantile regression for estimating performance limits. academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Accepted! "Acoustic differences persist in urban tits over two decades of declining anthropogenic noise in Paris, France." Hans Slabbekoorn and I show that city-living Great Tits continue to sing at high frequencies, even as Paris reduces noise pollution. Coming to Ornith Appl. @amornith.bsky.social

Successful Master's thesis defense of my student Isabel Vargas at the University of Costa Rica. She studied environmental and forest structure factors affecting Wood Thrush occupancy in Northern Costa Rica Project funded by @gdfcf.bsky.social

This year marks the 100th birthday of #bioacoustics, established by Ivan Regen in 1925, which studies how animals hear, produce and propagate sound. Let’s discover this discipline with @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social, Professor of Saint Etienne University, in the first episode of Acoustic World.

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

Excited to see our manuscript published soon! 🦉🪺🐦 @dmennill.bsky.social

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.

I feel extremely honored and excited for this appointment at the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Windsor. 🐦🇨🇦 Dan @dmennill.bsky.social, can't wait to continue our ongoing and future collaborations. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Love songs and battle cries: vocal duetting behaviour in tropical wrens. Today was my final lecture of the 2025 International Master's of Bioacoustics program. It was a chance to proudly share our collaborative 22-year study of #bioacoustics in Rufous-and-white Wrens. @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Special issue: FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY More info: vist.ly/43vfp Guest editors: Jan O. Engler, Jenn Foote, @silvereyedom.bsky.social Simon Thorn #ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

Celebrating a symposium of @behaviour2025.bsky.social, call for article submission for a special issue "Animal Intelligence: From Individual to Social Cognition" in Acta Ethologica. Submissions are open to everyone! Information at link.springer.com/collections/... #Behaviour2025 #actaethologica

Grateful for the opportunity to present my postdoctoral research in the Mennill Lab at #AOS2025 on vocal behaviours of Rufous-and-white wrens in the presence of an owl predator near and far from the nest. It was wonderful to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones. 🐦🎶🦉 @dmennill.bsky.social

How do Rufous-and-white Wrens respond when this 3D-printed owl is presented near versus far from their nest? Find out in Dr. Natalie Sanchez' talk "Singing in the face of danger" today at 16:00 in Grand Ballroom A at #AOS2025. 🦉🇨🇷🎶 @natingui.bsky.social @gdfcf.bsky.social @lincolnsavi.bsky.social