Super happy to share some work from my masters project with @cogwild.bsky.social 🪺
Using six years of data from blue tits, we show that wild birds make decisions about their nest design based on their reproductive success in the previous year.
📄 doi.org/10.1093/behe...
✍️ Co-authors: Sophie Edwards, @evelynalexander.bsky.social, Sue Healy
📸 Blue tit photos: Mark Pitt
📖 Full paper: doi.org/10.1093/behe...
We investigated how the outcome of previous reproductive attempts impacted the materials and structure of nests built by wild blue tits. Nests with more in
@ingeridh.bsky.social gave a great talk about her work investigating squirrel caching behaviour using accelerometers in a very interesting session led by Hemal Naik & Ebi Antony George on using machine learning in animal behaviour research🧑💻🐿️
Delphine De Moor
Festive Season in CRAB, which we celebrate with a quiz and by rediscovering the password to the CRAB Bluesky account.
Late-reporting, but last year some of our CRABbers headed up to Edinburgh to present their posters at the @asab.org Winter meeting. Well done all! @libbychaps.bsky.social @charli-ocean.bsky.social and @ Manuela Carona R
CRAB Posters at #ASABSpring2026 from @helephantmylne.bsky.social , Bryony Jenkins, Eleanor Benson, Sophie Pettit , and Henry Moreau-Smith
(Pictures taken in the very rare gaps when they didn't have customers)
Implications of large herbivore extinctions! For fans of megafauna past and present 🦣🌾🍄
This work adds to our understanding of the role of experience in avian nestbuilding. The effect of reproductive experience previously shown in captive birds is strong enough to be detected in a wild population and the changes birds make can improve their fitness.
