Fieldwork 2017
Another successful field season completed this year, where Sue, Andy, and Georgina were joined by four undergraduate students from the University of St Andrews (two of which were gathering data for their Honours…
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Well done, Nora!
A big congratulations to Nora who will be joining a lab run by Rita Covas, Claire Doutrelant, & Fanny Ryback. She’ll be studying cooperative behaviour in sociable weavers in South Africa starting in the end of…
New paper out – mobbing behaviour in blue tits
Nora has just had a paper published on how blue tits change aspects of their mobbing behaviour (not vocalizations) in response to changes in predator behaviour. Her paper was published in Behavioral Ecology and…
Conference – Behaviour 2017
The Healy lab descended in full force on the Behaviour 2017 conference (perhaps partially because it was held in sunny Portugal, see image at end). Sue certainly had a full programme. Not only was there a book launch…
Conference – Conference on Comparative Cognition
Perhaps better known as CO3, the Conference on Comparative Cognition as always was held in Florida. Sue, Alexis, and Lauren were the lucky ones that attended, with a four day long stint of basking in the sun, listening…
Conference – Scottish Ecology, Environment and Conservation Conference
The Scottish Ecology, Environment and Conservation Conference was held in Aberdeen this year, and included talks across a range of topics from PhD and Master’s students. As the name suggests, talks were related to…
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.
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…
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 – 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…