Hugo Loning

This study shows that song learning in wild zebra finches occurs during a sensitive period that outlasts parent-offspring cohesion, suggesting broader social learning opportunities.

The paper quantifies communication networks in wild zebra finches using song recordings and deep learning, revealing higher activity at social hotspots and dynamic, non-nested networks.

The paper fine-tunes BirdAVES for individual zebra finch recognition from short audio clips, achieving high macro-F1 scores and enabling 'who-sang-when' timelines from field recordings.

The paper investigates heat calls in zebra finches, showing they are soft, frequency-modulated whistles produced during panting via laminar flow in the larynx.

The paper tracks wild zebra finch pairs to show they maintain extreme spatial cohesion despite being nonterritorial and having short-range communication.