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Wesley Webb

Lecturer
School of Environmental and Animal Sciences

Publications

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. (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

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, 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).

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.

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, 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, W. H. (2023, November). Sounds of the forest, and beyond – a tour of acoustic communication in animals. [Paper presentation]. Forest & Bird, Howick.

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

Webb, W. H. (2020). New horizons for female birdsong: Evolution, culture and analysis tools [Doctoral thesis,Massey University]

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