Dr Steve Portugal, The University of Oxford

PhD student Rosa Gleave is busy in China, studying the critically endangered Blue-crowned Laughthrush. You can see a photo story of her current trip here!

Our new paper is out in The Science of Nature, which shows what happens to cluster flocking pigeons when they fly a long distance – they spread out. You can read it here! Congrats PhD student Dan Sankey.

To coincide with our ‘goose moon’ paper, which you can read here, I’ve written a piece for The Conversation about animal behaviour, the moon and eclipses, which can be found here! (photo, K. Witman)

Congratulations PhD Dan Sankey who just got his 2nd PhD paper accepted, in Animal Behaviour. In this paper, we show how birds compromise on speed when flying in flocks. More to follow.