Dr Steve Portugal, Animal Behaviour and Physiology

Congratulations Hana Merchant who passed her viva with Minors! Thanks to examiners Mike Scantlebury and Rudy Riesch.

Congratulations Rosa Gleave, whose had her paper accepted in People and Nature. In the paper, we establish whether local ecological knowledge can establish conservation baselines for the critically endagered Blue-crowned Laughtingthursh. More to follow.

We’ve been busy in France measuring the visual fields of various Galliformes! This is the project of MSc student Alex, in collaboration with Simon Potier and bird breeding specialists.

Excited to see the publication of “Eclipse & Revelation”, edited by Henrike Lange and the late Tom McLeish, to which I contributed a chapter on “Animal Behaviour and Eclipse”.

Out now in the BBC Wildlife Magazine is my article on my trip to Mission Beach to see Cassowaries!

Massive Congratulations to PhD student Hana Merchant for submitting their thesis!! It’s been an enjoyable and productive 4 years, full of mole rats, fieldwork in South Africa, and happy times.

Our new paper is out in Current Biology! And great to have the front cover. African Harrier-hawks have a weird visual field, which we believe is linked to their unusual foraging behaviour. You can read it here!

Our new visual field paper is out in Proc Roy Soc B. Huge congratulations Simon Potier for the massive body of work, and thank you for inviting us to join in. Binocular field configuration in owls: the role of foraging ecology! You can read it here!

Welcome to the new MSc students joining our lab; Tom Elliott, Alex Lamond, Lucy Moore, Lucy Meddings.

Congrats Cecylia on publishing your MSc thesis – out today in Royal Society Open Science, all about chick cognition, metabolic rate, personality and dominance. You can read it here!