​PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

• 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 authors contributed equally]   ​

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• BRUCE, T.,  ... with DALZIELL, A. H., WELBERGEN, J. A. et al (In press). Large-scale and long-term wildlife monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis. Biological Reviews.​

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• 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 

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• HANRAHAN, N., TURBILL, C., DALZIELL, A. H., ARMSTRONG, K. N., & WELBERGEN, J. A. (2024). Calling up ghosts: acoustic playback of social vocalisations reveals complex communication in a cryptic bat and provides a promising tool for monitoring disturbance-sensitive species. Mammal Research, 69, pp. 59–69, DOI: 10.1007/s13364-023-00727-w 

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• 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]  

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• 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

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• *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] 

 

• HANRAHAN, N., DALZIELL, A. H., TURBILL, C, ARMSTRONG, K. N. & WELBERGEN, J. A.  (2022). Ethogram of ghost bat (Macroderma gigas) behaviours and associated social vocalisations. Acta Chiropterologica, 24(1), pp.195–208, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2022.24.1.016 

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• 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

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• 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.​

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• 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

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• 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.  [Feature article] [*These authors contributed equally] ​

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• AUSTIN, V. I., DALZIELL, A. H., LANGMORE, N. E., & WELBERGEN, J. A. (2021). Avian vocalisations: the female perspective. Biological Reviews, 96, pp. 1484–1503.

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• 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(6), pp. 2701–2716. 

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• 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, pp. 1135–1159.

 

• HANRAHAN, N., TURBILL, C., ARMSTRONG, K. N., DALZIELL, A. H. & WELBERGEN, J. A. (2021). Ghost bats exhibit informative daily and seasonal temporal patterns in the production of social vocalisations. Australian Journal of Zoology, 67(6), pp. 305–315. 

 

• 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.

 

• DALZIELL, A. H. & WELBERGEN, J. A. (2016) Mimicry for all modalities. Ecology Letters, 19, pp. 609–619. 

 

• DALZIELL, A. H. & WELBERGEN, J. A. (2016) Elaborate mimetic vocal displays by female superb lyrebirds. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 4, pp. 1–34.

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• ​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. 

 

• 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.  [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.​

 

• COCKBURN, A., DALZIELL, A. H., Blackmore, C. J., Double, M. C., Kokko, H., Osmond, H. L., Beck, N. R., Head,  M. L. Wells, K. (2009). Superb fairy-wren males aggregate into hidden leks to solicit extragroup fertilizations before dawn. Behavioral Ecology, 20(3), pp. 501–510. 

 

• DALZIELL, A. H. & COCKBURN, A. (2008). Dawn song in superb fairy-wrens: a bird that seeks extrapair copulations during the dawn chorus. Animal Behaviour, 75, pp. 489–500. 

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• MAGRATH, R. D., PITCHER, B. J., & DALZIELL, A. H. (2007). How to be fed but not eaten: nestling responses to parental food calls and the sound of a predator's footsteps. Animal Behaviour, 74, pp. 1117–1129. 

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• VEHRENCAMP, S. L., HALL, M. L., BOHMAN, E. R., DEPEINE, C. D., & DALZIELL, A. H. (2007). Song matching, overlapping, and switching in the banded wren: the sender's perspective. Behavioral Ecology, 18(5), pp. 849–859. 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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• 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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• 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

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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, 2021-9-17

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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. The mimics among us - Birds pirate songs for personal profit. The Conversation, 2019-8-14