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This has led to the development of a \u201cconsensus\u201d model of seasonal reproduction that appears to be largely conserved across mammals, birds, amphibians, reptile and fish. This model centers around the photoinduced increase in TSH\u03b2 expression in the pars tuberalis of the anterior pituitary gland as the key transducer of photic information from sensory cells to the critical switch in hypothalamic deiodinase enzyme expression that drives changes in localized thyroid hormone signaling. These changes in localized thyroid hormone signaling in the medial basal hypothalamus ultimately activate the reproductive axis. This model has in turn, been consistently supported by studies in a variety of taxa. As such, it has become the standard against which subsequent work is compared, particularly in the non-mammalian literature. However, as new studies move away from the handful of canonical model systems and begin to explore the effects of naturalistic rather than artificial photoperiod manipulations, a more nuanced picture has begun to emerge. Yet, progress in elucidating the detailed events of reproductive photostimulation has been uneven across the research community. In this perspective, I draw on emerging data from studies in free living animals that challenges some of the established assumptions of the avian consensus model of reproduction. Specifically, the role of TSH\u03b2 and its dissociation from deiodinase signaling. I then discuss how these apparently surprising findings can be contextualized within the context of the mammalian seasonal literature. 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