News

Dutch Birdsong Meeting in Groningen, on Feb 20, 2026

An inspiring day where we discussed how to integrate zebra finch field ecology with laboratory behavioral biology and neuroscience to gain deeper insights. We decided to write a perspective paper on this, more on this will follow in Fall 2026! (photos by Sanne)

On Feb 9, 2026, Marco Maiolini hosted Carel ten Cate to discuss vocal learning in his podcast ‘Acoustic World’. Please find it on Spotify!

June 2025 – Multiple of our network members went to the European Birdsong Meeting in Germany to connect with international experts. It was a very inspiring meeting, thanks for organizing, colleagues at Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence!

May 2025 – Dutch Birdsong Network meeting in Ede

January 2025 – Dutch Birdsong Network meeting in Leiden

November 2024 – Dutch Birdsong Network satellite at the NVG meeting in Egmond aan Zee, where we started dreaming and drawing about how collaborating would enable us to study exciting questions. Many whiteboard and post-it note drawings like the one below were made that day and after πŸ™‚