Wesley Webb
Publications
Webb, W. H. (2020). New horizons for female birdsong: Evolution, culture and analysis tools [Doctoral thesis,Massey University]
Webb, W. H., Roper, M. M., Brunton, D. H., & Dale, J. (2023, August). A global comparison of female birdsong complexity [Paper presentation]. Behaviour 2023, Bielefeld, Germany.
Webb, WH., Dale, J., Pawley, MD., Brunton , DH., & Odom, KJ. (2025, November). Understanding the Evolution of Elaborate Female Song in Songbirds [Paper presentation]. 2025 EAS Research Symposium, Unitec.
Owen, J., Goodwin, B., Webb, W., Smith, T., Adams, N., & Fraser, D. (2024, November). Is lilly pilly beetle a threat to New Zealand’s native Syzygium maire? [Poster presentation]. EAS Symposium 2024, Unitec.
Owen, J., Goodwin, B., Webb, W., Smith, T., Adams, N., & Fraser, D. (2025, July). Lilly pilly beetle: should we be concerned for the New Zealand native maire tawake? [Poster presentation]. New Zealand Biosecurity Institute NETS conference, Palmerston North.
Odom, K. J., Araya Salas, M., Benedict, L., Lim, K., Dale, J., Webb, W. H., Sheard, C., Tobias, J. A., Ball, G. F., Hall, M. L., Langmore, N. E., Webster, M. S., & Riebel, K. (2025). Global incidence of female birdsong is predicted by territoriality and biparental care in songbirds. Nature Communications, 16, 6157, na. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60810-5
Fukuzawa, Y., Webb, W. H., Pawley, M. D. M., Roper, M. M., Marsland, S., Brunton, D. H., & Gilman, A. (2020). Koe: web-based software to classify acoustic units and analyse sequence structure in animal vocalisations. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11(3), 431-441. 10.1111/2041-210X.13336
Roper, M. M., & Webb, W. H. (2021). Sexual and temporal variation in New Zealand bellbird song repertoires. BioRxiv, Preprint, NA. 10.1101/2021.09.29.462458
Webb, W. H., Roper, M. M., Pawley, M. D. M., Fukuzawa, Y., Harmer, A. M. T., & Brunton, D. H. (2021). Sexually distinct song cultures across a songbird metapopulation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 773. 10.3389/fevo.2021.755633
Torres Ortiz, S., Balsby, TJS., Webb, WH., Pawley, M., & Larsen, ON. (2025). Vocally mediated coordination during a cooperative task in parrots. bioRxiv, 2025.10., 10.681640. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.10.681640
Webb, W. H., Brunton, D. H., Roper, M. M., Pawley, M. D., Fukuzawa, Y., & Dale, J. (2024, March). Exploring the mystery of female birdsong. [Paper presentation]. Zoological Society of Auckland, Unitec.
Webb, WH. (2025, December 1st). Female birdsong: from the Hauraki Gulf to the World (invited seminar). [Paper presentation]. Supporters of Tiritiri Matangi, Auckland.
Webb, WH., Pawley, MDM., Dale, J., Roper, MM., Fukuzawa, Y., & Brunton, DH. (2025, December 4th). Quantifying female song elaboration in songbirds. [Paper presentation]. Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, Online (invited seminar).
Webb, W. H. (2023, November). Sounds of the forest, and beyond – a tour of acoustic communication in animals. [Paper presentation]. Forest & Bird, Howick.
