Dr Steve Portugal, The University of Oxford

Great work today at The Hawk Conservancy, working again with their trained birds. Flight data now gathered from 27 different species of birds of prey in total, involving over 40 individuals. Also got a chance to play with the camera.

Our vulture vision work has been featured in Reuters News, you can watch the video here!

Our Review paper on the amazing air-breathing Anabantoid fishes has been accepted in the Journal of Fish Biology (first author Matt Tate, co-authors Craig White and MSc student Rebecca Mcgoran).

We have a new paper accepted in the Royal Societies Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. All about  the link between laboratory based personality traits, exploration and homing in pigeons, with co-authors Dora Biro (Oxford), Jackie Chappell (Birmingham), Emily Shepard (Swansea), Craig White (Monash) and Undergraduate student at RHUL, Rhianna Ricketts. Thanks to Frank Seebacher for inviting us to contribute to the special issue. Exciting times for pigeon research!

Having a great week visiting Harvard University, giving a Seminar and getting to see all the amazing museum collections.

I chatted very briefly about bird strikes on Bizarre ER. You can watch the programme here!

Our new paper on White-headed Vulture vision is out! You can read it here!

Animal Behaviour module is in full swing – today, practical work with the Siamese Fighting Fish!

Our new paper about pigeon social networks and perch choice is out, you can read it here!

We have a new funded PhD studentship, funded through ERC grant success by Emily Shepard at Swansea University. Emily is the Primary Supervisor, and myself and Luca Borger are co-supervisors. The project is all about how weather affects the costs of flight in birds. More details can be found here in the findaphd advert. Any informal enquiries should be directed to Emily. Deadline is February 10th.