Publications

PEER-REVIEWED 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, 9, pp. 1081-1085 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, DOI: 10.1080/01584197.2024.2400931 [*These authors contributed equally]

BRUCE, T., ... with DALZIELL, A. H., WELBERGEN, J. A. et al (2025). Large-scale and long-term wildlife monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis. Biological Reviews, 100:530-555. DOI: 10.1111/brv.13152.

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

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

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]

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]

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

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

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. & 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

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]

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

ELRICK-BARR ... with DALZIELL, A. H., et al. (2024) Report: Building community resilience through the multi-disciplinary research of Australia's leading early-career researchers. University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Published online at: https://research.usc.edu.au/esploro/outputs/report/Building-community-resilience-through-the-multi-disciplinary/991087896402621

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

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

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

DALZIELL, A. H. & WELBERGEN J. A. The mimics among us - Birds pirate songs for personal profit. The Conversation, 2019-8-14