Mastodawn

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A Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata) caught on camera just as its about to leap from its branch on to the ground in search of seed

Australian Finches

Two zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata), and a double barred finch (Stizoptera bichenovii)

#bird #australia #queensland #finch #bird photography #zebraFinch #doubleBarredFinch

Australian Finches

Two zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata), and a double barred finch (Stizoptera bichenovii)

Songbird connectomics, from my colleague Joergen Kornfeld:
https://www.songbird-connectomics.org/

Includes the first connectome of basal ganglia.

Three key papers:

"The songbird basal ganglia connectome", Rother et al. 2025 (Kornfeld lab)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.25.684569v1

"An anatomical substrate of credit assignment in reinforcement learning", Kornfeld et al. 2025 (with Michael Fee as senior author)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.18.954354v2

"Songbird connectome reveals tunnelling of migratory neurons in the adult striatum", Shvedov et al. 2025 (B.B. Scott's lab)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684388v1

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