Our research in behaviour focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of (often individual-level) variation in behaviours, particularly in responses to changes in the environment or social dynamics.
Some of the questions currently addressed fall under the themes of:
individual personality,
song variation and animal cultures,
foraging behaviour (e.g. nest provisioning),
reproductive behaviour (e.g. life history decisions, EPP)
divorce,
sociality and microbial exchange.
We use a range of techniques including:
behavioural observations (both visual and acoustic),
experimental manipulations (both in the wild and in captivity),
