62 birds of 15 species this morning at Owenahincha. Highlights being a Yellow-browed Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, a Blackcap, the first Redwing, 15 Goldcrest, 17 Long-tailed Tit and 4 Redpoll BirdWatch Ireland BTO

Decent first winter ringing session at Ballinphelic for the year with 60 birds of 12 species inc a late moulting adult Bullfinch. Then an attempt at Snipe which ended with the first Woodcock of the season PalomaB Dr Jenny Coomes James O'Neill Alan McCarthy BirdWatch Ireland BTO

WOOOOHOOOO!! The Irish woodcock project is a-go for the winter! We set nets for snipe in a field at my home in West Cork. Didn't get snipe, but it was so special to catch the first #woodcock of the season, ringed by Dr Jenny Coomes 🎉

Doing some audio analysis from some of the Evo Eco Cognition nest boxes and realised that Chaffinch contact call looks like an artist version of trees in a snow storm

Wow! Check out where will be underwater with the sea level rise in 30 years time.... My current Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC office will be part of the River Lee! Biodiversity Ireland Sussex Biodiversity UCC Ireland BirdWatch Ireland BTO coastal.climatecentral.org/map/6/-1.0531/…

Busy session at Ballinphelic this morning. 90 birds of 14 species inc a Reed Bunting and 5 Bullfinch. Also saw a Woodcock, a Long-eared Owl and a probable Goshawk! Irish Raptor Study Group Shane Somers BTO BirdWatch Ireland

Owenahincha this morning - 85 birds of 15 species including a Teal, Kingfisher, 2 Redwing (Icelandic and Scandinavian), Blackcap, Stonechat and 11 Chiffchaff (inc 1 Siberian) PalomaB Dr Jenny Coomes Alan McCarthy BTO BirdWatch Ireland

We are really grateful to Sam Sam Bayley for his last two years helping on our project. We wouldn't have the nest data from the ~350 nest boxes in the 12 field sites in West Cork without his help. We'll use this breeding information in our future work. We wish Sam all the best.

Beginning of March for new nests! Everyone get out checking! #TheGreatEggRace

New paper from our lab. Check it out!

The @ASABvirtual2020 is FREE and open to ASAB members AND NON-MEMBERS! More information about registration and abstract submission to follow. BRING ON THE ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH FUN!! 🐶🐱🐭🐹🐰🐻🐼🐻‍❄️🐨🐯🦁🐮🐷🐸🐵🦍🐔🐺🦊🦝🐗🐴🐝🐌🪲🐜🕷️🪰🐢🦎🐙🦀🐠🐟🐬🦈🦭🐦🦜🐀🐿️

LIVE (Llŷn Iveragh Ecomuseums) recruiting 4 Knowledge Gatherers for ecology / geology / natural heritage projects co-designed with communities. 1-year positions based in Kerry and north Wales. Go to ore.ucc.ie and search for job 040731. #jobfairy #ecoamgueddfa

I am looking for a PhD student to join our research team to work with our long-term mountain chickadee field system in beautiful Sierra Nevada starting Fall 2021. Lots of open questions to study.

Latest pre-print from our lab group. Check it out 👇

A decent day finally meant mist nets open in the garden in W Cork for #birdringing! Lots caught, including this fab recovery of a Evo Eco Cognition Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC study great tit ringed in 2017 about 38km to the east! And finished off with a redwing roost catch 👌

Microbiome work from our lab. Congrats all!

Two of our group Shane Shane Somers and Jenny Dr Jenny Coomes are presenting at the Irish Ecology and Evolution Conference IEA over the next two days. They'll be talking about the gut microbiome and DNA metabarcoding of the diet of great tits. Join us if you can!

New work from our lab! Motivation and personality with problem solving in great tits.

Today (Friday 16th) at @asab_easter2021 I'll be presenting my poster on inhibitory control and diet of adult and nestling great tits. 6pm in the Cognition room. Come and find out how cognition links to diet in everyone's favourite passerine 😃#ASAB_Easter2021

New Paper out today by Jenny Dr Jenny Coomes Gabrielle Gabrielle Davidson Michael Michael Reichert Ipek, Camille Camille Troisi and John. How #personality, and inhibitory control are associated with #foraging flexibility in great tits. Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC UCC Ireland