Dr Steve Portugal, The University of Oxford

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!

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).

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.

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!

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

Congrats former MSc student Ellie Lucas on getting your paper accepted in Journal of Ornithology. We suggest that the visual fields of birds are repeatable at the individual and species level.

Congratulations first author Carla du Toit on getting our paper accepted in Biology Letters. Titled “Tactile bill-tip organs in seabirds suggests conservation of a deep avian symplesiomorphy”. Thanks to co-authors Daniel Field, Alex Bond and Susan Cunningham. More to follow.

New paper accepted in Biology Letters, called “Highly virulent avian brood-parasitic species show elevated embryonic metabolic rates at specific incubation stages compared to less virulent and
non-parasitic species”. Huge team effort and very grateful to all co-authors. More to follow.

Congratulations to postgrads from the lab who graduated this month, Hana Merchant, Jack Thirkell, Matthew Lawrence and Ellie Lucas.

Congrats MSc student Ellie Lucas on your getting your paper accepted in The Science of Nature. Our paper is all about the visual fields of some tropical seabird species. More to follow.