Cuckoo paper out in Biology Letters

22 09 2024

Congrats former PhD student Steph McClelland on our paper out in Biology Letters. This is Steph’s final PhD chapter and the last to get published. All about the patterns of energy expenditure during embryo development in brood parasites and their hosts. You can read it here!





Paper accepted in Ornithology

19 09 2024

Huge congrats to Will Smith and Michał Jezierski for getting their Rock Dove work accepted in Ornithology, and thank you for inviting me to be involved in the paper. More to follow.





Paper out in Biology Letters

18 09 2024

Congrats first author Carla du Toit on our paper out in Biology Letters. Titled “Tactile bill-tip organs in seabirds suggest conservation of a deep avian symplesiomorphy”, you can read it here!





Leaving Do

18 09 2024

Very grateful to everyone who joined for my leaving event at RHUL. I head off to Oxford October 1st. A decade of good memories from RHUL (alas David A wasn’t at my leaving do).





Borneo 2024

18 09 2024

The Borneo fieldcourse went well this year, with lots of exciting species seen (photos by Larissa Barker). This is the last year I teach the course, and we’re all extremely grateful to the staff at the field centre for three years of successful trips.





Paper out in Journal of Ornithology

18 09 2024

Congrats former MSc student on your paper out in Journal of Ornithology, showing how avian visual fields are repeatable at the individual and species level. You can read it here!





Paper accepted in Ibis

9 09 2024

Pleased to have our paper accepted in Ibis. All about the visual fields of gulls.