New paper out – British tits and mobbing calls
Nora’s paper on how British tit species encode predator threat into their mobbing calls has been published in Animal Behaviour and is available online here.
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Big Garden Birdwatch
On the last weekend of January Alexis, David, Eira, Lauren and Shoko from the Rutz Lab donned their citizen science caps and joined the hundreds of thousands of people up and down the country who took part in the Big…
Outreach – Cafe Scientifique
Lauren embarked on a journey to the Cumbrian town of Cockermouth to give a talk for Cafe Scientifique. If you haven’t heard of Cafe Sci before it is essentially a very casual coming together of people, often in a pub…
Conference – Postgraduate Conference
Several members of the Healy lab attended the University of St Andrews’ annual biology postgraduate conference, with different roles for each. Georgina gave a presentation on the foraging preferences of rufous…
New paper out – Social learning in zebra finches
Lauren and Sue have got a new paper out in Behavioural Processes on ‘The roles of vocal and visual interactions in social learning zebra finches’. The paper is available to read here.
Congratulations Dr Carlson!
A huge well done to Nora who passed her viva! Congratulations Dr Carlson!
Outreach – Ringing Demonstration
Nora and Sophie helped out at a ringing demonstration at Strathkinness Primary School, arranged by Karen Spencer. They helped postdoc Jeroen Minderman, and Shirley Millar (a member of the Tay Ringing Group) ring great…
Conference – ISAE
The International Soceity of Avian Endocrinology (ISAE) held its quadrennial conference from October 11-14th this year at Niagara-on-the-lake in Ontario, Canada. ISAE takes place every four years in a rotation system…
Sneak peek footage
During our field season earlier this year, Sue and our collaborator Andy Hurly (and the hummingbirds) were involved in the filming of a documentary. The series ‘The Nature of Things‘ features a look at hummingbirds,…
Outreach – Autumn Festival
Over the weekend the St Andrews Botanic Gardens held their Autumn Festival, where Sophie got involved with the Bird Ringing Demonstration. This demonstration was put on by members of the Tay Ringing Group, with the…