Congratulations to Dr Tello Ramos!
Our very own Maria passed her PhD viva yesterday. Well done, Dr Tello Ramos!
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Welcome back!
Two of our PhD students, Maria and Georgina, have just returned from Canada, having completed 7 weeks of fieldwork in the Rockies. They had two undergraduates, Amy and Ellen, helping them work with wild male rufous…
Paper published: Image analysis of weaverbird nests reveals signature weave patterns
Our paper ‘Image analysis of weaverbird nests reveals signature weave patterns’ was published today in The Royal Society Open Science (DOI:10.1098/rsos.150074). People can be individually identified by their…
Paper published: Evolution of nest structure
Congratulations to Dr Zach Hall, a former PhD student of the Healy lab, and co-authors whose recent publication on the evolution of different nest-structures built by Timaliidae has been a topic of discussion in the…
Sunbird fieldwork commences
Ida Bailey is flying to Pretoria, South Africa, to help initiate a research project investigating how flower morphology influences the foraging decision of sunbirds. The research is being conducted in collaboration…
International Conference on Comparative Cognition (CO3)
Lauren Guillette gave a talk at the 22nd International Conference on Comparative Cognition about social learning in nest-building zebra finches. Lauren was also a mentor during a post-graduate prep session aimed at…
Scottish Conference on Animal Behaviour
The Scottish Conference of Animal Behaviour (SCAB) was located in our home university, St Andrews, this year and was quite well attended; everyone in the lab went. Individuals from our lab presented 4 different talks,…
The BBSRC is promoting our nest construction research
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Easter ASAB
This year’s Easter conference for the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) was held at Durham University, hosted by the Behaviour Ecology and Evolution Research (BEER) Centre. Three members of the Healy…
Well done Maria: Two papers accepted
Great news. Maria has had two papers about her work on hummingbird foraging behaviour accepted, one in Behavioural Ecology and one in Animal Behaviour. 1. Tello-Ramos Maria C, Hurly T Andrew & Healy Susan D.…