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Outreach – Explorathon 2016

The Healy lab came out in full force for Explorathon 2016, an event based on discovery which aims to engage and entertain the public. This year Explorathon celebrated European Researchers’ Night by holding events all…

Outreach – Scottish Ornithologists’ Club

The Scottish Ornithologists’ Club gave a warm welcome to Sophie at an evening event in St Andrews inviting PhD students to talk about their research. Sophie spoke about nest building and about whether temperature…

Fieldwork in the Canadian rockies

Another successful fieldwork season in the Canadian rockies! David and Georgina were joined by former Healy lab member Dr Maria Tello-Ramos, as well as three undergraduates from the University of St Andrews (Vicki,…

Conference – ISBE

Nora, Georgina, and Sue all attended the International Society for Behavioral Ecology conference held in Exeter. This conference marked the 30th anniversary since the founding of ISBE, and as a result attendees were…

Well done Nora – 3rd best talk

Congratulations to Nora who won 3rd prize for best talk at the third European Student Conference on Behaviour and Cognition, which was hosted in St Andrews this year and organised by four PhD students, including…

New papers out – Reviews

We’ve had some more publishing activity from the Healy lab, recently in the form of reviews! Well done Alexis, David, Maria, Lauren, and Sue!   What Can Nest-Building Birds Teach Us? The structures that animals build…

Well done David!

David has won a research grant from the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour to study landmark use in wild hummingbirds. This is his first grant, so it’s a landmark achievement for him (pun entirely intended).…

Outreach – even more Research Illustration!

Yet another Healy lab member has engaged with the Research Illustrations project! Alexis has written a brief explanation of her PhD project (nest building in zebra finches) and it is now accompanied by some beautiful…