Magrath, Rob - The Australian National University

个人简介

I completed my first degree at Monash University in Melbourne, and then worked on a conservation biology project on lesser floricans, a small bustard found in the grasslands of western India, and as a volunteer on the mating system Lawes' parotia, a bird of paradise that lives in the mountains of Papua New Guinea. After a period drifting in the South Pacific, I migrated north to do my PhD on breeding strategies in European blackbirds at the University of Cambridge, and then taught in the Edward Grey Institute in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. The temptation to do field research on unstudied birds - without needing a raincoat - finally brought me to The Australian National University, where I have been working on avian social behaviour, breeding biology and acoustic communication. I was an Editor for the Journal of Avian Biology from 2000-2013, Secretary of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology from to 2006 to 2014, and am currently on the Editorial Board of Bioacoustics and the Australian Journal of Zoology.

研究领域

Most of my students study acoustic communication in birds. We study acoustic communication in birds, particularly communication about danger and vocal mimicry. We study alarm calls, song, duetting, eavesdropping on other species, and communication between parents and their young.

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Dalziell, A.H., Peters, R.A., Cockburn, A., Dorland, D.D., Maisey, A.C. & Magrath, R.D. 2013. Dance choreography is coordinated with song repertoire in a complex avian display. Current Biology, 23 (12): 1132-1135 Dalziell, A. H., Welbergen, J. A., Igic, B. & R. D. Magrath. 2014. Avian vocal mimicry: a unified conceptual framework. Biological Reviews, online 30 July 2014. Magrath, R. D., Haff, T. M., Fallow, P. M. & Radford, A. N. 2014. Eavesdropping on heterospecific alarm calls: from mechanisms to consequences. Biological Reviews, online 11 June 2014. Igic, B. & Magrath, R. D. 2014. A songbird mimics different heterospecific alarm calls in response to different types of threat. Behavioral Ecology, 25: 538–548. Haff TM, Magrath RD. 2013. To call or not to call: parents assess the vulnerability of their young before warning them about predators. Biology Letters, 9: 20130745. Dalziell, A.H., Peters, R.A., Cockburn, A., Dorland, D.D., Maisey, A.C. & Magrath, R.D. 2013. Dance choreography is coordinated with song repertoire in a complex avian display. Current Biology, 23 (12): 1132-1135. Igic, B. & Magrath, R. D. 2013. Fidelity of vocal mimicry: identification and accuracy of mimicry of heterospecific alarm calls by the brown thornbill. Animal Behaviour, 85: 593-603. Fallow, P. M., Pitcher, B. J. & Magrath, R.D. 2013. Alarming features: birds use specific acoustic properties to identify heterospecific alarm calls. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 280: 20122539. Haff, T. M. & Magrath, R. D. 2013. Eavesdropping on the neighbours: fledglings learn to respond to heterospecific alarm. Animal Behaviour, 85: 411-418. Haff, T. M. & Magrath, R. D. 2012. Learning to listen? Nestling response to heterospecific alarm calls. Animal Behaviour, 84: 1401-1410 Dalziell, A. H. & Magrath, R. D. 2012. Fooling the experts: accurate vocal mimicry in the song of the superb lyrebird, Menura novaehollandiae. Animal Behaviour, 83: 1401-1410. Magrath, R. D. & Bennett, T. H. 2012. A micro-geography of fear: learning to eavesdrop on alarm calls of neighbouring heterospecifics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 279: 902-909. Haff, T. M. & Magrath, R. D. 2011. Calling at a cost: elevated nestling calling attracts predators to active nests. Biology Letters 7: 493-495. Fallow, P. M., Gardner, J. L. & Magrath, R. D. 2011. Sound familiar? Acoustic similarity provokes responses to unfamiliar heterospecific alarm calls. Behavioral Ecology, 22: 401-410. Gardner, J. L., Trueman, J. W. H., Ebert, D., Joseph, L. & Magrath, R. D. 2010. Phylogeny and evolution of the Meliphagoidea, the largest radiation of Australasian songbirds. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 55: 1087-1102. Magrath, R. D., Haff, T. M., Horn, A. G., & Leonard, M. L. 2010. Calling in the face of danger: predation risk and acoustic communication by parent birds and their offspring. Advances in the Study Behavior, 41: 187-253. Goodale, E., Beauchamp, G. Magrath, R. D., Nieh, J. C. & Ruxton, G. D. 2010. Interspecific information flow influences animal community structure. Trends in Evolution and Ecology, 25: 354-361. Haff, T. & Magrath, R. D. 2010. Vulnerable but not helpless: nestlings are fine-tuned to cues of approaching danger. Animal Behaviour, 79: 487-496. Fallow, P. M. & Magrath, R. D. 2010. Eavesdropping on other species: mutual interspecific understanding of urgency information in avian alarm calls. Animal Behaviour, 79: 411-417. Hingee, M. & Magrath, R. D. 2009. Flights of fear: a mechanical wing whistle sounds the alarm in a flocking bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 276: 4173-4179.