Behaviour 2013 Conference
Behaviour 2013 was the joint 33rd meeting of the International Council of Ethologists and the Association For The Study of Animal Behaviour. It was attended by six members of the Healy lab, all of whom presented…
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Paper accepted for publication
We are very please that our paper on birds’ colour preferences during nest building has been accepted for publication in Behavioural Processes: Felicity Muth, Matthew Steele and Susan D. Healy (July 2013). Colour…
Dr Ida Bailey has won a SULSA LEADERs award
Ida has won a SULSA LEADERs awarded, to travel to the University of Pretoria, South Africa to initiate a new collaboration with Prof Sue Nicolson, aimed at bringing together the physiological and behavioural approaches…
Maria Tello Ramous has received funding from the Russell Trust
Maria has been award funding by the Russell Trust to study sex differences in hummingbirds foraging behaviour in Mexico. This is a great opportunity for her to set up new field sites and forge new international…
Paper Accepted for publication
We are very pleased that our paper on hummingbird population structure has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Ornithology: Ida E. Bailey, Gernot Segelbacher, Susan D. Healy, T. Andrew Hurly and…
Scottish Conference on Animal Behaviour
Members of the Healy Lab presented their research at the Scottish Conference on Animal Behaviour hosted at the University of Glasgow.
ASAB Easter Meeting
Members of the Healy Lab attended the easter meeting of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB). Congratulations to Maria who won the poster competition (see below)! Poster description:…
The Healy Lab visit Leuchars Primary School
Ida Bailey and Kate Morgan talked to the children at Leuchars primary school about how and why birds build nests and let the children have ago at building one themselves. The children built nests in branches or…
Fife Science Festival
The Healy Lab got involved in the Fife Science festival where they ran a practical nest building event for families in collaboration with Dr Stephanie Bunn a specialist in the anthropology of basket making. Much…
Nest Construction and Function Conference
Four members of the Healy Lab attended this international conference to presented data on the role of cognition in nest construction: Talks: Felicity Muth & Sue Healy (University of St Andrews, UK): The right…