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or, in this case, a neophobic Blue Tit in a cage is also a neophobic Blue Tit in the wild. Now this, might not sound like anything of particular ground-breaking significance, but in the context of animal personality research, it is a fairly big thing. Whilst working on Scarlet Macaws in Costa Rica, I had [...]

I wish I could have taken the week off for the holiday, but though they don’t seem like it, Corey, Mike and Charlie are slave-drivers, working us poor beat writers to the bone in their content factory.  Worse, it’s non-union.  I never though Corey, of all people, would sink so low. Anyway, here’s a short [...]

Bird banding (or ringing if you’re in the Old World) is considered one of the most effective ways of monitoring avian population, migration, and species diversity. Some authorities argue that capture, tagging, and subsequent recapture is the field biologist’s most important tool for enumerating and quantifying the status of wild populations. But is there a [...]