Personality does not predict social dominance in wild groups of black-capped chickadees
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: activity, behavioural syndrome, david's score, dominance hierarchy, exploration, field observations, neophilia, proactive–reactive, repeatability, social status
2016
Lack of seasonal and moult-related stress modulation in an opportunistically breeding bird: The white-plumed honeyeater (Lichenostomus penicillatus)
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: corticosterone, corticosterone suppression, moult, moult/breeding overlap, opportunistic breeding, stress modulation, white-plumed honeyeater
2015
Hand rearing affects emotional responses but not basic cognitive performance in European starlings
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: animal welfare, behavioural disinhibition, early life stress, european starling, impulsivity, maternal deprivation, perseveration, sturnus vulgaris
2013
Hand-rearing and sex determination tool for the taveta golden weaver (Ploceus castaneiceps)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: chick growth, fledge, genetic sexing, parent-rear, weight gain
2012
Handling Stress Does Not Reflect Personality in Female Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology
Keywords: behavioral syndrome, behavioural syndrome, bootstrap, breathing rate, exploration, temperament
2012
Ultraviolet visual sensitivity in three avian lineages: paleognaths, parrots, and passerines
Publication/Journal: Jounal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology
Keywords: avian communication, perching birds, sensory ecology, sws1 opsin, ultraviolet vision
2012
Glucocorticoids, individual quality and reproductive investment in a passerine bird
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: corticosterone, handicap, individual quality, mechanisms of behaviour, offspring provisioning rate, parental behaviour, stress, tachycineta bicolor, tree swallow
2011
A behavioural study of sleep patterns in the malachite sunbird, Cape white-eye and fan-tailed widowbird
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: cape white-eye, euplectes axillaris, eye closure, fan-tailed widowbird, malachite sunbird, nectarinia famosa, sleep behavior, sleep behaviour, sleep position, unihemispheric sleep, zosterops virens
2009
Water bathing alters the speed-accuracy trade-off of escape flights in European starlings
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: animal welfare, dustbathing, european starling, manoeuvrability, passerine, sturnus vulgaris, water bathing
2009
Captive breeding and rearing of critically endangered Mauritius fodies Foudia rubra for reintroduction
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: captive breeding, foudia, hand rearing, harvesting, reintroduction
2008