Dr Steve Portugal, Animal Behaviour and Physiology

Very happy to be welcoming new PhD student Robin Franks to the lab group. Robin is funded by the NERC London DTP, and is co-supervised by Robin Freeman (ZSL) and Elli Leadbeater.

Good news, our paper has been accepted in Royal Science Open Science. Congratulations first and very much lead author Marina Papadopoulou. This paper is a modelling approach, looking at our RoboFalcon empirical data.

Congratulations Marina Papadopoulou on getting our paper accepted in PLOS Computational Biology. Marina has been doing some fantastic modelling work on the pigeon/RobotFalcon data. More details to follow.

Huge congrats Steph on passing your PhD viva with minor corrections! And thank you to the examiners, Naomi Langmore and Dave Morritt.

Very sad to say goodbye to postdoc Marie Attard as our Leverhulme Trust grant comes to an end. Thank you Marie for your brilliant contributions to the group, your hard work, and collegiate approach. It’s been a pleasure!

Our new paper is out in Methods in Ecology and Evolution. You can read it here! Pigeons lose compensatory body mass in response to biologgers being attached.

Congrats Steph McClelland on the new paper out today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. You can read it here! We show that embryo movement is more frequent in avian brood parasites than birds with other reproductive strategies. Big thanks to our collaborators, a huge team effort.

Our new paper is out in J Roy Soc Interface. Congrats postdoc Marie. This is part of our Leverhulme funded eggshell project. You can read it here!

Our new paper is out in Ibis. Using accelerometer loggers we show just how much more active the dominant birds are in a group. You can read it here!

Our new paper is out in Journal of the Royal Society Interface – congrats Steph McClelland. You can read it here.