Dr Steve Portugal, Animal Behaviour and Physiology

Congratulations Cecylia on getting your MSc work accepted in Royal Society Open Science. All about the relationship between metabolic rate, short-term memory, dominance and personality in chickens.

Our new paper is out in Journal of Experimental Biology. You can read it here! All about pigeon flocking and social dynamics.

Very happy to have our paper accepted in Proc Roy Soc B., titled “Binocular vision and foraging in ducks, geese and swans (Anatidae)”. A real team effort.

We have 5 new MSc students joining us in September. Next up is Lucy Meddings. Lucy is going to be studying the social life of pigeons.

We have 5 new MSc students joining us in September. Next up is Lucy Moore. Lucy is going to be studying social structure and cognition in pigeons.

We have 5 new MSc students joining us in September. Next up is Alex Lamond. Alex is going to be studying avian visual fields.

We have 5 new MSc students joining us in September. First up is Tom, who is going to be studying UV signalling in coral reef fish.

Congrats to Jasper, Rana and Ursh for graduating with your MSc’s!

Our new paper is out today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. This paper is all about eggshell surface topography, pigmentation and its heterogeneity. Wonderful visuals as always by first author Marie Attard.

We have a new paper coming in Journal of Experimental Biology, called “Influence of behavioural and morphological group composition on pigeon flocking dynamics“. Congrats first author Dan Sankey, who has now published all 5 of his PhD data chapters.